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Featured Programs

GenAI Workshops

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A free five–session, hands-on series for Harvard graduate students and postdocs hosted on Tuesdays from October 7 to November 4, 2025.

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AWS Impact Computing Project

A five-part video series about how we’re collaborating with AWS to build the field of impact computing.

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HDSI Postdoctoral Fellowships

The HDSI Postdoctoral Fellows work independently over a two-to-three year fellowship with the guidance and partnership of Harvard University faculty.

Harvard Data Science Review

As an open access platform of the HDSI, Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) aspires to be a global forum on everything data science and data science for everyone.

Research Programs

The HDSI supports research in data science methodology and applications through multiple programs that align with research interests across Harvard Schools.

Industry Engagement

Learn from industry data scientists about the role data science plays in their organization, the methods and techniques being used, and their own career trajectory.

Upcoming Events

Oct
21

Embeddings & RAG in Science

On October 21, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Oct
28

AI in Society: Ethics, Handling Privacy, Bias

On October 28, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Oct
30

Industry Seminar: Alan Hanley, GE Vernova

On October 30, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Nov
04

Environmental Costs & the Future of AI

On November 4, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Causal Seminar: Alex Luedtke

On November 4, 2025 at 3:30 pm
Nov
13

Industry Seminar: Tyler Otto, Reddit

On November 13, 2025 at 1:30 pm

Latest News + Links

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    At a rural clinic, a health worker records a child’s weight; at a market, a parent chooses what fish to buy. We’re translating real-world signals into timely guidance that supports nutrition security and public health. Linking climate and environmental exposures to malnutrition in a food-insecurity hotspot Project Lead: Christopher Golden What we’re building What it…
  • Newly Funded: Creating a Benchmark for Multi-Step Verified Programming
    Led by Nada Amin, this project aims to build the first large-scale benchmark for verified programming, uniting program synthesis and formal verification. The team will develop a dataset of 1,000 problems—each paired with metadata, specifications, and automatically checkable solutions in the Dafny language—to evaluate how large language models perform when asked not only to write…
  • Climate Decisions, Made Clearer and Faster
    When smoke drifts over a city or storms gather on short notice, people need practical answers, not guesswork. We’re turning climate data and models into guidance communities can use. Climateverse: Making Climate Data Actionable Project Leads: Satchit Balsari; Caroline Buckee What we’re building What it enables Physics-Aware Foundation Models for Extreme Atmospheric Events Project Leads: Petros…

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