Background
The AWS Impact Computing Project at the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) is an alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) aimed at reimagining data science and high performance computing to identify potential solutions for society’s most complex challenges.
This collaboration provides a structural framework for catalyzing the development and application of data science methodologies to achieve meaningful benefit for society. Through this unique and ambitious academic-industry framework, Harvard University data science researchers encompassing many disciplines can pose new questions for exploration in collaboration with AWS. This alliance ultimately strives to mitigate and solve complex human and environmental global crises brought on by rapid changes in climate, ecology, social determinants, and food security.
2023 Projects
Climate change and volatility in food supply: historical contributions to and future implications for food insecurity
HDSI Faculty Affiliate Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Linking climate and environmental exposures to malnutrition in a food- insecurity hotspot
HDSI Faculty Affiliate Christopher Golden, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Project Solicitations to Harvard Faculty
Current solicitation:
Previous solicitations:
For information about these solicitations or the Project more generally, please contact Lawrence Weissbach, Scientific Director (lawrence_weissbach@harvard.edu).
Articles
Applying Cloud Computing to Major Global Problems
An interview with the HDSI Director, Francesca Dominici, and our former Co-Director, David Parkes (new Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)), on the scope and goals of the AWS collaboration.