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Please join us for a series of talks on AI for Philadelphia. Students and faculty from across Penn will showcase how advances in AI are directly benefiting the city’s schools, infrastructure, and technology.

DDDI is excited to support the launch of the University Atlas project (uAtlas): an effort to map Penn's vibrant research community. Visitors to uAtlas can explore decades worth of publications authored by faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences map. Read more about uAtlas in Penn Today.

Join us for the second Penn Data Scientists Meetup! This event aims to bring together practitioners of data science, engineering, and visualization from across the University. There are many staff members across Penn who work in isolated clusters on these topics, and we are looking to foster collaboration between Penn’s various schools.

The DDDI Postdoctoral Fellows program is expanding! We're excited to announce a unified postdoctoral fellows program that spans the sciences and AI, in partnership with the Center for Innovation in Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS). More details available here.

Applications are now open for the 2024/2025 DDDI Postdoctoral Fellowship cycle! The fellowship opportunity is open to postdocs in the School of Arts & Sciences who use data science as a significant part of their research methodology. We encourage postdocs across the natural and social sciences to apply!

Join the Research Data & Digital Scholarship librarians on Feb. 27th for the second session in a series of interdisciplinary events with speakers, discussions, and hands-on projects centered around the basic concepts, applications, and societal implications of generative AI.

DDDI honors Penn graduate students Shriya Ramakrishnan, Manvi Kaul, Emma Jin, and Zahra Khodakarami with the Generative AI for Social Good Award for their Gen AI hackathon project, a personal AI assistant for the estimated 17 million people living with cerebral palsy.

Join the Research Data & Digital Scholarship librarians for a series of interdisciplinary events with speakers, discussions, and hands-on projects centered around the basic concepts, applications, and societal implications of generative AI. The inaugural panel is February 13th.

Sign up for Penn’s first Generative AI Hackathon! The hackathon is a university-wide two day event (2/16-17) in Tangen Hall for Penn students to learn, build, and create Gen AI based applications. No AI or hackathon experience required. Apply by February 9, 2024 to get involved.

A collaborative workshop taking place at Penn on April 12-13, 2024, to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to discuss historical and emergent trajectories of data-driven knowledge production in South Asia. The deadline to submit an abstract is January 31, 2024.

The 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) is now inviting abstracts and tutorials from scientists working at the frontiers of social, computational, complexity, and network science! DDDI is thrilled to sponsor the IC2S2 conference this summer, July 17-20.