Through the work of the Integrative Data Science Lab (IDSL), we are pioneering new ways to rapidly improve disease treatment and drug discovery using integrative knowledge graphs and advanced machine learning approaches to profile and predict the biological effects of potential new drugs.
Data Science for Disasters & Crises
The world is already facing the impacts of climate change through increased severity and frequency of natural-event caused disasters. Through our Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab, we are researching ways that data science can help scale and improve the preparation for, mitigation of, response to and recovery from disasters.
Emergency Technologies & Digital Resilience
In the Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab, we are researching the design and use of technology in a way that promotes Digitial Resilience, that is private, secure, robust and reliable even in adverse or threatening environments. This brings together maker culture, data science, cybersecurity, privacy and human computer interaction research.
The critical question for data science to answer in the next 10 years
Data science could help Californians battle future wildfires
DSCI D590 Data Science in Practice
DS590 Data Science in Practice is a graduate course designed to help students gain critical, practical skills in applying data science to real world problems. Students will work in teams of 3-5 to tackle a real-world problem defined by a project sponsor. Project sponsors can be academics or industry practitioners. Students work with the project sponsor to understand the problem domain, identify where their data science skills can be applied, and to design, implement and test a solution.
How knowledge graphs will transform drug discovery
What if we could bring all the knowledge, data, insight, and prior decision-making of drug discovery together and use it to accelerate the discovery of new drugs? What if we could encode the millions of known relationships between potential new (or old) drugs, protein targets, genomics, biological processes, and disease mechanisms, and then use all this together to get new insights into disease and treatments?
The dismal state of disaster preparedness in the US and how data science can help
Transforming Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Companies into Data Companies
INFO I590 Data and Society
Info I590 Data and Society is a graduate course that introduces technically-trained students to the social, political, and ethical aspects of data science work. It is designed to create reflective practitioners who are able to think critically about how collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data are social processes, and processes that affect people.