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Students, postdocs, and research scientists are invited to submit research posters, demonstrations, and/or visualizations related to the four tracks of the OSU AI Research Summit, which TDAI and…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI recently hosted a community event marking the close of the first semester of its yearlong theme, Joint Human–AI Systems in an Agentic World…
Alex Davis, Senior Data Scientist at The Ohio State University’s Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI), presented on behalf of the institute at the 2025 AI Fluency Forum,…
TDAI Core Faculty Member Gil Bohrer, along with lead author Justine Missik and a team of Ohio State researchers, has developed ECODATA, a new open-source software suite designed to simplify the…
TDAI Director Tanya Berger-Wolf and Member Rajiv Ramnath were co-authors on the paper, “ML Field Planner: Analyzing and Optimizing ML Pipelines for Field Research,” which earned the Best Full…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) proudly congratulates Dr. Ping Zhang on his election to the esteemed 2025 Class of Academy Fellows of the…
On September 22, the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) hosted Dr. Fei Wang for a talk on Deriving Holistic Insights from Biomedical Data. Dr. Wang, a leading researcher in…
A landmark paper on the tumor microbiome, which is microbial genomes detected within tumors and adjacent normal tissues, was published today in Nature Methods after nearly two years of…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to establish the Center on Responsible AI and Governance (CRAIG), a multi-university Industry…
TDAI Launches a Bold New Year of Research at Annual Kickoff Event
On August 21, 2025, the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at The Ohio State University welcomed…
TDAI Catalyst Grant Fuels Breakthrough in Explainable Machine Learning for Agricultural Water Management
A new study published in Agricultural Water Management…
TDAI Faculty Affiliate Contributes to National Academies Report on Aligning Therapeutic Development Investments with Public Health Needs
The National Academies of Sciences,…
Data Science Spotlight: Setting New Standards for Human–AI Teaming in Safety-Critical Settings
TDAI Faculty Fellow Mike Rayo and TDAI Faculty Affiliate Dane Morey…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at The Ohio State University proudly hosted the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025)…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) has expanded its Data Science Services to provide even more robust support for faculty and research teams across The Ohio State University…
TDAI Core Faculty member Dr. Huan Sun, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and a College of Engineering Innovation Scholar at Ohio State, has been selected by Schmidt Sciences…
This week's Data Science Spotlight highlights Darren Drewry, one of TDAI's core faculty members, and his work in studying the make-up of beans utilized in many plant-based protein products.
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The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) officially launched its new hands-on workshop series, AI in Your Research, with an inaugural session led by TDAI Data Scientist Dr. Alex Davis…
Core faculty members Tanya Beger-Wolf and Marta Jarzyna are co-authors of a new paper titled "Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fill Global Shortfalls in Biodiversity Knowledge".
While…
Recently, TDAI's Faculty Director Tanya Berger-Wolf sat down with Food for Health's Science Spotlight -- a segment of their website used to introduce faculty members who are highly engaged with…
Core faculty member Huan Sun was recently interviewed for a Nature News article titled, "Scientists Flock to DeepSeek".
The article goes into detail about the development of DeepSeek-R1, a…
Congratulations to TDAI faculty David Melamed, Subhadeep Paul, and Dennis Hirsch for receiving Accelerator grants through the most recent cycle of the President’s Research Excellence (PRE) program…
On the 7th and 8th of November, faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and Ohio State centers and institutes participated in the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum hosted by the…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is commending Xia Ning, Huan Sun, and the rest of their female-led PhD team on their paper titled “G2Retro as a two-step graph generative models for…
At the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16), held from October 21 to November 1, Professor Tanya Berger-Wolf represented The Ohio State University, the Imageomics Institute, the ABC…
By Jeff Grabmeier, news.osu.edu
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Corporate efforts to use artificial intelligence in a more socially responsible way have a surprising benefit – they can often improve…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) invites proposals for postdoc and faculty flash talks for the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, Nov. 7-8 in Pomerene Hall, the theme of…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) invites proposals for student flash talks and posters for the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, Nov. 7-8 in Pomerene Hall, the theme of…
Have you heard about TDAI’s new Yearlong Themes initiative? (Read the Call for LOIs here.)
Are you interested in submitting your big ideas for a yearlong…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute congratulates the teams who received the 2024-25 TDAI Interdisciplinary Research Pilot Awards:
David Melamed (TDAI; Sociology, ASC)…
Call for Papers—Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference 2025
The fourth annual Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference (CLPSC) will take place at
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) seeks an Academic Program Services Senior Consultant with data analytics/data science experience to lead TDAI’s education, training and outreach…
Deadline to submit: Oct. 25
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is accepting letters of intent for researcher-driven, yearlong thematic programs to catalyze big ideas…
STARTING JULY 10:
TDAI is sending out a form to confirm individuals' continued desire to be a member of the TDAI community, update TDAI membership directory/networking…
New deadline to submit: Friday, June 28
The Translational Data Analytics Institute invites session proposals for the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, to be held…
COMING IN MID-JULY:
TDAI will be sending out a form to confirm individuals continued desire to be a member of the TDAI community, update TDAI membership directory…
New deadline to submit: Friday, June 14
The Translational Data Analytics Institute invites session proposals for the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, to be held…
Amy J. Schmitz, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, has been awarded a 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Specialist award to examine …
TDAI Core faculty member Ping Zhang (Computer Science & Engineering, Biomedical Informatics) and team have designed a new artificial intelligence model that emulates randomized…
TDAI wants our community to be aware that the Ohio Supercomputer Center will be launching its new high performance computing cluster, Cardinal, in the second half of this year…
Deadline to submit: May 31
The Translational Data Analytics Institute invites session proposals for the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, to be held November 7-8…
TDAI Core Faculty member, Macarius Donneyong (Pharmacy/Public Health), Chair of the 2024 Annual Conference of the American College of Epidemiology (ACE), is pleased to invite…
Deadline to submit: Oct. 25
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is accepting letters of intent for researcher-driven, yearlong thematic programs to catalyze big ideas toward realizing…
TDAI Internal Adivsory Board member Cynthia Carnes (Pharmacy, Physiology and Cell Biology, Senior AVP for Research Operations), and TDAI Affiliate faculty members Matthew…
Imageomics, a new field of science, has made stunning progress in the past year and is on the verge of major discoveries about life on Earth, according to one of the founders of the discipline.
TDAI Director Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf will speak at AMLD Africa, an instance of Applied Machine Learning Days to be held Feb. 27-29 in Nairobi, Kenya. The event features AI/ML leaders from academia…
TDAI Core faculty member Dr. David Melamed (Sociology), Dr. Brent Simpson (Sociology, University of South Carolina), and OSU graduate student Bradley…
TDAI Core faculty member Dennis Hirsch (Law), TDAI Leadership Team member Srini Parthasarathy (Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science & Engineering), TDAI…
Nearly 200 faculty, students, postdocs and staff from Ohio State and beyond participated in the 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum co-hosted by TDAI and the Sustainability Institute Nov. 8…
TDAI, in collaboration with partners in the Interdisciplinary Research Enabling Initiative, is accepting proposals for compelling research pilots and creative expression projects that are:
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Two TDAI core faculty members, Raef Bassily (Computer Science & Engineering) and Darren Drewry (Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering) are among the five…
The Ohio State Symposium on Large Language Models hosted Oct. 2 by TDAI's Foundations of Data Science & AI community of practice and the Institute for Cybersecurity & Digital Trust brought…
TDAI core faculty member Dennis Hirsch (Law) will be joining the Organization on Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Expert Group on AI Risk and Accountability. This…
Eight interdisciplinary Ohio State research teams have been awarded approximately $50,000 each in Accelerator grants through the President’s Research Excellence (PRE) program in the 2023 cycle.
TDAI core faculty member Rongjun Qin (Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental & Geodetic Engineering; Electrical & Computer Engineering) and his team have received an…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute and Sustainability Institute invite proposals from faculty and postdocs for five-minute flash talks for the 2023 Interdisciplinary…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is currently accepting applications for Incubator Labs in Residence, which provide teams various types of space in Pomerene Hall and staff assistance to…
It is with great sadness that TDAI shares the passing of our friend and colleague, Dr. Bear Braumoeller, Professor of Political Science, and a founding co-director of TDAI's…
Dane Morey, a GRA in the Cognitive Systems Engineering Lab, has written a reflection on the 2023 Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) Future Leaders Summit to share with…
The National Data Science Alliance (NDSA) is hosting its inaugural Listening Sessions, a four-day free virtual event from April 24-28. The Listening Sessions will share information with the HBCU…
TDAI is pleased to announce the newest cohort of co-directors for our communities of practice.
TDAI Affiliate faculty member
Robert Bond, Associate Professor
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Challenge submission deadline: Jun. 1, 2023
Challenge Description
The Hypertensive Retinopathy Diagnosis Challenge (HRDC) is the first edition associated with the Workshop…
TDAI Core Faculty member Dr. Darren Drewry, Assistant Professor of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering (FABE), will lead a new project funded by the US Department of…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute and the Sustainability Institute are seeking session proposals for the 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, to be held November 8-9 in Pomerene…
TDAI is seeking to fill several faculty director positions that will become available as some current directors finish their terms in June. Co-directors serve as members of TDAI's faculty…
TDAI core faculty member Darren Drewry, assistant professor of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering (FABE), received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early…
TDAI core faculty member Andre Carrell, assistant professor of transportation and the director of the Ohio State Travel Behavior Research Group, TDAI affiliate Huyen Le…
TDAI core faculty member Zhiqiang Lin, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been named the inaugural director of the Institute for Cybersecurity and Digital Trust …
TDAI is accepting proposals from TDAI core faculty and affiliates for summer 2023 data analytics workshops related to TDAI's strategic directions.
Types of available support include:
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TDAI Core Faculty member Rongjun Qin is one of the co-authors on a research poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union by lead author and graduate student in Earth…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) and Central State University (CSU) have received a grant from the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) to fund “Workforce…
TDAI Core Faculty member Darren Drewry, Assistant Professor of Ohio State Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering's team was awarded membership into NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne…
Roughly 200 faculty, students, postdocs and staff from Ohio State and beyond participated in the successful 2022 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum co-hosted by TDAI and the Sustainability…
TDAI Core Faculty member Assistant Professor Joseph Bayer and former School of Communication PhD student Matthew Sweitzer recently had their research article, “Reimagining the Personal Network:…
TDAI Core Faculty member Zhiqiang Lin, professor of Computer Science & Engineering, and his postdoctoral advisee, Yue Zhang, uncovered and proved a new threat to Bluetooth security and privacy by…
TDAI Core Faculty member Macarius Donneyong, assistant professor of outcomes and translational sciences in the College of Pharmacy and College of Public Health, is part of a team of Ohio State…
TDAI and partners in the Interdisciplinary Research Enabling Initiative are accepting proposals for a variety of opportunities for funding and in-kind support for research and proposal development…
TDAI Affiliate Desheng Liu, Professor of Geography, and graduate student Polina Berezina, Geography, have published a study on a new model that uses remote sensing from satellites…
The 2022 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum will include a judged student poster session for interdisciplinary research by graduate students or by senior undergrads producing a thesis.
The recipients of TDAI research pilot awards for 2022-23 were announced at the institute’s annual Research Retreat, held Aug. 11 in Pomerene Hall. They were awarded as part of the…
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists and health authorities have relied on contact-tracing technologies to help manage the spread of the virus. Yet there’s a major flaw in a…
TDAI welcomes five new faculty members to its Leadership Team who will co-direct communities of practice (CoP) in addition to guiding institute programming and strategic plans.
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TDAI Core Faculty member Dennis Hirsch (Law) gave a panel presentation on AI governance at the International Association of Privacy Professionals' Leadership Meeting (board…
TDAI's Foundations of Data Science and AI community of practice presented the first Deep Learning Summer School featuring tutorials and research presentations by members of the TDAI community and…
TDAI Affiliate Faculty Member Christopher Stewart is one of the co-authors on a study that investigates using neural networks to help characterize a crop defoliation, or…
TDAI Core Faculty member Huan Sun and TDAI Affiliate Faculty member Yu Su are part of an eleven-member team from Ohio State that earned third-place honors with…
In addition to co-directing TDAI's Responsible Data Science research community of practice, TDAI Core Faculty Dennis Hirsch is the faculty director of the Program on Data and…
Alec Sheets, a PhD student in Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, has been awarded a brand new Ohio Public Interest Fellowship from the Battelle Center for Science, Engineering and Public…
Congratulations to the following TDAI core faculty who were recognized at the spring awards event for the College of Engineering.
Rongjun Qin (Civil, Environmental and Geodetic…
Nine members of the TDAI Computational Social Science Community of Practice gave brief introductions to their research streams at a May 4 Research Short & Sweet Colloquium hosted by CoP co-leaders…
TDAI Core Faculty member Barbara Kowalcyk, who directs the Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention (CFI) in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, has been…
TDAI Core Faculty Member Dr. Ping Zhang has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for which he will serve as PI. The project will integrate deep learning algorithms…
TDAI affiliate Caroline Wagner (Glenn College) is co-author on a new analysis published in Scientometrics that suggests China’s research success in 2019 edged the U.S.’s in one important measure…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is accepting applications for faculty directors to co-lead its research communities of practice.
The deadline to apply: Friday, April 1, 5…
“Machine learning and AI allow us not only to speed up the process [tracking animal population size, species interaction, and movement patterns], but to see the world from a different viewpoint,”…
Rongjun Qin, associate professor of geodetic engineering, was named Associate Editor of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the official publication…
The American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest™ @ OSU is a collaborative competition where undergraduate students from around The Ohio State University gather to tackle a data analysis…
As part of the campus-wide Interdisciplinary Research Enabling Initiative, the Translational Data Analytics Institute, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC) and the Sustainability…
As part of the campus-wide Interdisciplinary Research Enabling Initiative, the Translational Data Analytics Institute and the following partners are accepting proposals for Interdisciplinary…
Effort to include pilot awards, proposal development grants, postdoc fellows, workshops
Ten Ohio State University entities have joined forces to advance interdisciplinary science,…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute awarded research pilot awards to four interdisciplinary pilot research teams in 2021 that together represent six colleges at The Ohio State University…
Translational Data Analytics Institute affiliate Mark Moritz, professor of anthropology, is co-author of a study that suggests efforts to protect threatened and endangered species in central…
More than 300 attendees and presenters at the forefront of data science and analytics in society examined challenges and opportunities around "Data for Good, Ethically" at the Translational Data…
Nearly 30 presenters participated at the Translational Data Analytics Institute's 2021 Fall Forum poster session on Nov. 2, where judges from throughout the university awarded prizes to three…
Translational Data Analytics Institute director Srinivasan Parthasarathy is principal investigator on an interdisciplinary team funded by an NSF award as part of the Convergence Accelerator…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute has partnered with the Ohio State University Airport and a diverse group of OSU researchers to be awarded a new 30-foot tower of…
TDAI is hiring students for a variety of positions in the 2021-22 school year that will help support the work of our 220+ faculty affiliates from 15 colleges. Shift schedules will be coordinated…
Ohio State’s fourth annual Data Science for Women Summer Camp concluded July 16 with a record number of attendees. Hosted by the Translational Data Analytics Institute, the camp—which is 100% free…
Ohio State joins national network focused on AI-based technologies
The Ohio State University is now the home base of two new federally funded institutes dedicated to…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute seeks to grow its faculty Leadership Team with the addition of co-leads for its research communities of practice (CoPs) that contribute to driving team…
TDAI core faculty members Dr. Huan Sun (computer science and engineering), Dr. Xia Ning (biomedical informatics and co-director of TDAI's Computational Health and Life Sciences community of…
The Master of Translational Data Analytics seeks a skilled graduate teaching associate for its two-semester capstone sequence.
Responsibilities:
Provide technical consulting in data…
Dr. Eric Fosler-Lussier (computer science and engineering), co-director of TDAI's Foundations of Data Science and AI community of practice, is one of three engineering faculty elected as Fellows…
The Economist's Babbage podcast and two articles in publication's June 19 science and technology quarterly journal include TDAI Director Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf in discussions of technology,…
TDAI support is available for faculty members interested in hosting academic workshops around specific topics to spark research ideas, teams and projects. Support can include space, staff support,…
TDAI faculty director Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf was a contributor to a research policy brief published by the Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium, entitled Imagine All…
TDAI is seeking a Program Director to support its recently launched master’s degree program in Translational Data Analytics (MTDA). This innovative, cohort-based master’s program is focused on…