Status Report September 2015
UCSC Data Science (1) • Themes
– Founda0ons – Responsibility – Social Good
• Goals
– Develop outstanding DS Research program, leveraging and augmen0ng faculty strengths
– Ini0ate an integrated DS Educa0on program across UCSC/Silicon Valley – Build Industry Collabora0ons through research, teaching and student
engagement
– Establish collabora0ve cross-‐divisional engagement for applica0ons of DS
UCSC Data Science (2)
• Current efforts
– Community building
– Educa0on
– Research
Overview
• DS Events • DS Educa0on • DS Center • DS Ins0tute • Interna0onal Collabora0ons • Other Ac0vi0es
DS Events (1)
• Individual Invited Speakers
– very well-‐a8ended, many standing-‐room only
• DS Educa0on Panel – Held at BNY Mellon, Palo Alto, December 2014 – Key local leaders in data science educa0on including: Michael Franklin, UC
Berkeley; Mar0 Hearst, UC Berkeley; Foster Provost, NYU; Chris Re, Stanford; Merhan Sahami, Stanford; Hal Varian, Google
– Very well-‐received, in part as a result of this we are invited to a8end NSF Workshop on Defining Data Science EducaDon in Fall 2015
– Rayid Ghani, UChicago/DSSG – Lada Adamic, Facebook – Peter Norvig, Google – Tanya Berger-‐Wolfe, UIUC
– Ben Shneiderman, UMD – Ellen Riloff, Univ of Utah – Tina Eliassi-‐Rad, Rutgers – DJ Pa0l, SOE Commencement Speaker
DS Events (2)
• Winter Data Science Aiernoon – Internal Event – Short faculty presenta0ons, student posters (over 40) – Very well-‐a8ended, over 150 registrants
• Spring Data Science Aiernoon – External Event – Invited speakers including Michael Jordan, UC Berkeley, Reed Has0ngs (CEO)
and Caitlin Smallwood (VP Algorithms), Nerlix – Panel on Industry and Academia Collabora0on which included:
– Short faculty presenta0ons, student posters (close to 40) – Very well-‐a8ended, over 250 registrants. Filled main room and two overflow
rooms
Chaitanya Baru, NSF/SDSC Rod Beckstrom, Rod Beckstrom Group Chetan Gupta, Hitachi America
Abhishek Pani, Adobe Puneet Pandit, Glassbeam Colin Zima, Looker
Poten0al Future Events • DS for Social Good SOE Research Review track (Oct 14) • Weekly student organized Data Science Social star0ng in Fall • Con0nue to host individual guest speakers • Data Science Alums Event • Data Science Women Event • Responsible Data Science
– Coordinate with event planned by Michael Troncoso, UCSC Chief Legal Counsel (Oct 13)
– Panel, Possible venue at BNY Mellon
• Other community building events: planned coordina0on with digital humani0es students, others
DS Educa0on (1) • Educa0on Panel • Helped broker and will aVend NSF Workshop on Data Science
Educa0on, Oct 2015 • Drai MS Proposal
– Led by Abel Rodriguez. – Being worked on over summer and fall for fall submission
• NSF NRT PhD proposal submiVed, led by Vishy Vishwanathan • Inves0gate offering ini0al classes next year (we have two
excellent external folks who may be interested to teach) • Offer 1 day DS bootcamps taught by graduate students (very
successful at UCI)
DS Educa0on (2)
• Market Research (academic) – Shel Finkelstein has developed industry survey – We will be refining and gathering data over coming months
– First interview July 31, very useful • Working to develop DS core & tracks
– Requires coordina0on across departments/units
• Working and coordina0ng with Grad Office
DS Center
• DS Center Focused Research Ac0vity proposed – Data, Discovery and Decisions (D3), a Center of Excellence in Data Science Research
– Startup Glassbeam that has agreed to be founding member, announced at Spring Data Science Day
– We are recrui0ng addi0onal founding members – Preliminary mee0ngs with with a number of companies over the hill, and planned mee0ngs with with others.
– Working on materials • One page handout • Summary of UCSC projects
• Frank Howley has been instrumental in this effort
DS Ins0tute • Long-‐term, overarching vision: Silicon Valley/UCSC Data Science
Ins;tute • The plan consists of three parts:
– Building an interna0onally recognized research program by strategically hiring faculty that can increase campus visibility and aVract stronger and more diverse Ph.D. students and research funding (Research Mission).
– Offering a masters program that integrates academic training with a capstone project that has strong links with local industry (Educa0onal Mission).
– Building outreach both to industry (via engagement and consul0ng services) and society more generally (through a novel program of data science for the social good) (Service Mission).
• Full document available here: – hVp://datascience.ucsc.edu/proposals/SVDS-‐Ins0tute.pdf
Interna0onal Collabora0ons • Inves0ga0ng a partnership with several universi0es for a La0n
American Data Science & Engineering University Consor0um • Universi0es involved:
– George Mason University, USA – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico – Universidad de San0ago de Compostela, Spain – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
• Abel Rodriguez & Dean Konopelski aVended an ini0al mee0ng late May in Mexico City
Data Science Ini0a0ve
• Need help with resources for genera0ng material – Unified website – Logos, branding, etc. – Social media groups
• Created, but need to be maintained
– Construc0ng materials (videos, case studies, etc.)
• Spoke with Keith Brandt mid-‐June, followup with Sherry Main, chief communica0on officer, Karyn Moore
Thank you … • Students!!!! • Shel Finkelstein • Cynthia McCarley • Karyn Moore • BSOE staff • Joe Konopelski • Herbie Lee • ScoV Brandt • Keith Brandt