Smart Cities
We develop, monitor, and improve infrastructure, buildings, transportation routes, the power supply, and everyday activities in crowded, urban environments.
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Research
DSI facilitates the kind of breakthrough discoveries that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
We make it possible for Columbia’s scholars and students to extract value from the vast reservoirs of data that are being generated today. DSI-affiliated researchers work in a wide range of disciplines – from business to medicine, social work to literature, history to natural science – and collaborate in interdisciplinary teams to gather and interpret data and address urgent problems facing our society.
Focus Areas
We have accelerated the pace of discovery by working on five of society’s most challenging problems.
Related Research Centers and Working Groups
Related Research Centers and Working Groups
Related Research Centers and Working Groups
Related Research Centers and Working Groups
Related Research Centers and Working Groups
Research Centers
Our centers are engines of translational research and education in the data sciences, and a source of technology with high commercialization potential.
- Smart Cities
- Sense, Collect and Move Data
- Health Analytics
- Foundations of Data Science
- Financial and Business Analytics
- Data, Media and Society
- Cybersecurity
- Computing Systems for Data-Driven Science
Sense, Collect and Move Data
We study the physical aspects of sensing, generating, collecting, storing, transporting, and processing large data sets.
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Health Analytics
We work to improve the health of individuals and the health care system through data-driven methods and understanding of health processes.
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Foundations of Data Science
We conduct core research on problems that cut across the data sciences and engineering.
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Financial and Business Analytics
We develop analytical and computational tools to manage risk and to support decisions using the growing volume and variety of data available.
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Data, Media and Society
We use data generated by people and data about people to understand human behavior.
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Cybersecurity
We develop the capacity to keep data secure and private throughout its lifetime.
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Computing Systems for Data-Driven Science
We explore the design, analysis, and application of massive-scale computing systems for processing data.
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Working Groups
We address challenges posed by our data-rich society through clusters of multidisciplinary researchers.
Postdoctoral Fellows
We seek recent Ph.D. graduates with explicit interests in advancing and/or applying data science to other domains.
Seed Funds Program
We support research collaborations between data scientists and domain experts.
