Inaugural BU Data Science Day Draws Cross-Disciplinary Crowd

Hosted by the Hariri Institute for Computing, the inaugural BU Data Science (BUDS) Day drew a crowd of over 200 participants from more than 60 different disciplines, departments, and offices around the University. Faculty, staff, and students gathered to discuss how data science is transforming research and creating new channels for interdisciplinary collaboration.

The day-long symposium featured 12 BU faculty panel speakers, who discussed their data-driven research in a variety of fields such as renaissance art, biostatistics, neuroscience, physics, social sciences, economics, marketing, and law. Additionally, 26 students presented original research during the BUDS poster session, focusing on topics from Kickstarter campaigns, to interest groups and the Supreme Court, to mapping infectious disease distributions in Africa. The afternoon session included two external keynote speakers, Jennifer Listgarten, from Microsoft Research, and Professor Alessandro Vespignani, from Northeastern University. Listgarten focused on the use of machine learning and statistics in addressing challenges in biology, while Vespignani discussed his recent work around novel data streams and modeling of socio-technical systems.

Read more about the inaugural BUDS Day symposium on the BU Research Website.