Category: News / Announcements

Dominici named to TIME100 Health list

Data scientist recognized for her contributions to improving air quality TIME has named Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Faculty Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, to the inaugural 2024 TIME100 Health list in recognition for her groundbreaking contributions to global…

Ashley Villar’s Proposal on Time-domain Astrophysics Anomaly Detection Secures Funding from the Harvard Data Science Initiative

Ashley Villar, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University Faculty of Arts & Sciences, was recently awarded funding through the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) Faculty Special Projects Fund for her pioneering proposal focusing on anomaly detection in time-domain astrophysics. Starting in 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will lead a ten-year campaign to image…

Harvard launches data science initiative

The new Harvard Data Science Initiative, led by co-directors David C. Parkes, George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science, and Francesca Dominici, senior associate dean for research at the Harvard Chan School, will unite efforts across the University to enable the development of cross-disciplinary methodologies and discovery of new applications…