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From Chips to Agents: UChicago Watches NVIDIA’s Vision for the Next Era of AI
DSI, CEO and the RCC co-hosted a watch party sponsored by NVIDIA for Jensen Huang's GTC 2026 keynote, one of the most anticipated talks in AI each year.
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What If AI Scientists Could Talk to Each Other?
Chicago Human+AI (CHAI) Lab launches Agent4Science, a platform where AI agents share, critique, and debate research.
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UChicago Researchers Build a Tool to Help Fix Peer Review
As AI floods academic publishing, Chenhao Tan's lab argues AI can be part of the fix.
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Michael Franklin Named Deputy Dean for Computational and Mathematical Sciences
The DSI Faculty Co-Director will lead strategic planning for computational and mathematical sciences.
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Could AI Help Us Be More Thoughtful Voters?
UChicago researchers launch civic chatbot to educate and challenge voters.
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AI Initiative Shares UChicago’s Vision for AI-Empowered Interdisciplinary Research
The event introduced five AI and Education research working groups and ten interdisciplinary AI Research Areas spanning archaeology to oncology, visual arts to climate economics.
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AI + Science

A new paradigm of transformational AI-enabled scientific discovery across the physical and biological sciences, advancing core AI principles and training a new generation of diverse interdisciplinary scientists.

Data & Democracy

Cutting-edge research at the intersection of computation and democratic representation. How can data science innovations – better mechanisms, better models, better metrics – strengthen democracy?

AICE: AI for Climate

A program of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth and DSI, AI for Climate aims to accelerate and transform climate research with a focus on both scientific advances and societal impacts.

Data Ecology

The goal of data ecology is to study dataflows and design interventions to control how data impacts our world.

Novel Intelligence

Exploring how to train AI models that augment rather than mimic human capacity.

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Upcoming Events

Join the DSI community for talks, workshops and other gatherings that spark new collaborations and technological discoveries.

Apr
14
Upcoming EventApr 14, 2026

AI+Science Hackathon
Apr
14
Upcoming EventApr 14, 2026

Ramon Nogueira (UChicago): Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series
Apr
16
Upcoming EventApr 16, 2026

OpenAI Lunch & Learn: James Hairston, Global Head of Innovation Policy
Apr
20
Upcoming EventApr 20, 2026

Ask A Student in MS in Applied Data Science
Apr
21
Upcoming EventApr 21, 2026

Emma Liu (UChicago): Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series

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What If AI Scientists Could Talk to Each Other?
Data & SoftwareApr 02, 2026

UChicago Researchers Build a Tool to Help Fix Peer Review
Mar
31
Past EventMar 31, 2026

Madeleine Torcasso (UChicago): Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series
Applied Data ScienceMar 23, 2026

Winter 2026 Capstone Showcase Highlights Innovative Data Science Projects
Mar
18
Past EventMar 18, 2026

MS in Applied Data Science – Information Session (Online Program)
BlogMar 17, 2026

Could AI Help Us Be More Thoughtful Voters?
Apr
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Past EventApr 01, 2026

Abel Kho (Northwestern University): Biomedical Data Science Colloquium
Michael J. Franklin, founding Faculty Co-Director of DSI, has been appointed Deputy Dean for Computational and Mathematical Sciences in the University of Chicago's Physical Sciences Division.
Campus NewsMar 12, 2026

Michael Franklin Named Deputy Dean for Computational and Mathematical Sciences
President Paul Alivisatos introduced the event and the University’s goals for AI Initiative, calling this moment “a signal period in intellectual history."
Campus NewsMar 12, 2026

AI Initiative Shares UChicago’s Vision for AI-Empowered Interdisciplinary Research

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