When Bhuvnesh Jain and Greg Ridgeway co-founded the Data Driven Discovery Initiative (DDDI) in 2021, their initial goal was to support the undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs across the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) who were applying data science tools in their studies and research.
As DDDI progressed, though, Jain kept hearing about the intriguing work being done by staff data scientists employed in labs throughout SAS and beyond, in departments that, at first glance, had little to do with each other. Whether it was the political scientists analyzing massive amounts of voting and polling data from national elections or the radiologists turning to artificial intelligence to glean insights from brain images, these researchers were all using the same tools and encountering similar challenges. But there was no central support system and few points of connection, at least around the technical aspects of their research.
Read more about Bhuvnesh Jain's work in the full article on Omnia.