The National Science Foundation has awarded MIT and Berkeley 12.5 million to form the Foundations of Data Science Institute (FODSI), a multidisciplinary institute established to study critical issues in data science. Bin Yu, Professor of Statistics, and Michael Jordan, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, are both co-Principal Investigators, along with other Berkeley PIs Martin Wainwright and Peter Bartlett, Professors of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a team with researchers from Boston, Northeastern, Harvard and Howard Universities, and Bryn Mawr College.
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More good news on the Data Science front as the Simons Foundation and National Science Foundation awarded 10 million to a UC Berkeley led program to investigate the theoretical underpinnings of data science. The project is led by Peter Bartlett (PI) and Bin Yu (co-PI).
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