News and announcements

The Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is conducting a survey to understand how open source is utilized and regarded at UW–Madison, and its impact on academics and research. Please help us by taking and sharing this brief survey.

The Data Science Institute recently welcomed 14 faculty members to our group of DSI Affiliates, bringing the total number of affiliates to 54. DSI Affiliates are UW–Madison faculty and academic staff from across campus who are actively engaged in foundational or use-inspired research, aligned with the DSI mission and vision, that is relevant to data science.

Join us Friday, April 5 from 1-3 for demonstrations of AI and data science. You can play with generative AI tools, check out visualizations of research data, learn about open-source software, and experience our interactive campus networking tools such as our community maps.

As part of the ML+X community’s 2024 Machine Learning Marathon, we are excited to invite principal investigators and companies throughout Wisconsin to contribute their data and associated machine learning task (e.g., classification or prediction) to be featured as a competition on Kaggle.

As part of the ML+X community’s 2024 Machine Learning Marathon, we are excited to invite principal investigators and companies throughout Wisconsin to contribute their data and associated machine learning tasks.

The Data Science Institute is accepting applications for a financial specialist. This position will report directly to the associate director of administration, will assist the DSI director, and will support staff members to advance the DSI’s research goals and objectives.

The American Family Funding Initiative, an internal funding competition at UW–Madison, offers up to $150K to stimulate and support cutting-edge research in the rapidly growing field of data science.

The Data Science Hub is hiring a facilitator for data science training and community engagement at UW–Madison. If you are passionate about helping people advance their research using data science methods, check out this opportunity!

On November 29, the UW-Madison community gathered in the Discovery Building for the inaugural generative AI prompt battle at an American university. MadPrompts, hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the Data Science Institute, featured an electrifying competition where contestants used text prompts to create AI-generated images.

UW–Madison’s Data Science Hub is hosting the 5th annual Research Bazaar on February 7 and 8, 2024 at the Discovery Building. With an overarching theme of Data in Action, the Research Bazaar is a place to build community and technical know-how.