The Brink: National Science Foundation Honors 6 BU Researchers with CAREER Awards
CDS Assistant Professor Kira Goldner has been awarded by the NSF to advance her work on fairer allocation of social services, using data science to tackle inequalities and more.
GBH News: Have an old or forgotten credit card bill? You might end up carless.
Read about how the recent rise in debt collection has caused major issues for many, and the work being done to fix the system.
Student Voices: Harnessing Data Science for Urban Policy-making
With the success of the recent Exploring Data & Cities panel event, read student moderator Vijay Fisch’s perspective on the panel’s impact and its important context.
BU Today: This Student-Created CDS Workshop Examines Equality in the Technology Industry
Check out this BU Today article on the Spark! Exploring DEI in Tech program tackles the many current areas in need of improvement with regards to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
BU’s 5 NSF Grant Winners Are Changing Conversations in Robotics, Computing, Mass Incarceration, Neurology, and More
Read about the big impact being made by BU faculty, including CDS’ own Jessica Simes, who is creating change with invaluable research in a variety of disparities surrounding the criminal justice system.
Racial Data Lab to Combat Racist Policy-making
Read about the launch of the new Racial Data Lab, a joint venture that will marry racial research and data science to pioneer and lead the field of racial data science through the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) and the Center for Antiracist Research (CAR).
Two Major Awards to BU in Support of CDS Labs
The Boston University Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences is excited to announce that it has been awarded two grants from New America’s Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Challenge to establish both a CDS Impact Lab on Equity and a Justice Media co-Lab.