The Harvard Data Science Initiative is pleased to announce support for two new faculty research projects: From Friction to Formation: Building a Collaboration Catalyst for AI-Supported Research Partnerships S. Bryn Austin, Professor in the
The Harvard Data Science Initiative is pleased to announce support for four new faculty research projects: Identifying social and environmental drivers of congenital anomalies using causal machine learning Hawazin Elani, Associate Professor…
We are thrilled to join the University of Chicago, the University California of San Diego, and Stanford University in supporting the seventh annual Rising Stars in Data Science Workshop to be held at the University of Chicago on November 9-…
Each summer, the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) hosts the Summer Program for Undergraduates in Data Science (SPUDS), a ten-week immersive research program co-sponsored by Harvard College. As a part of the Harvard Summer Undergraduat…
Building on a newly patented synthetic data approach developed at Harvard, this project explores whether AI-generated question-and-answer pairs can improve how users search and interact with complex academic research. The platform enables r…
The HDSI is excited to announce the launch of four new research projects supported by the AWS Impact Computing Project at the HDSI. The project titles and principal investigators can be viewed here. These new awards bring the total number o…
We are a university-wide working group of causal inference researchers. The working group is open to faculty, research staff, and Harvard students interested in methodologies and applications of causal inference. Our goal is to provide rese…
Northwest Building, Room B103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 This is part of the ongoing Generative AI series co-hosted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Data Science Initiative. This is part of
In a world with critical ethical challenges regarding facts, data, and truth. Announcing our third Impact Report (2023-2025), sharing stories about the people and ideas that make up the HDSI community. A five-part video series about how we’…
In a world with critical ethical challenges regarding facts, data, and truth. Announcing our third Impact Report (2023-2025), sharing stories about the people and ideas that make up the HDSI community. Weekly spring semester Generative AI w…
By Erin Kiesewetter In October 2025, the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) and Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) co-hosted the Inaugural AI Summit with Archerman Capital. The goal was simple yet ambitious: bring together scholars, tec…
In October 2025, the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) and Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) co-hosted the Inaugural AI Summit with Archerman Capital. The goal was simple yet ambitious: bring together scholars, technologists, executiv…