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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…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is proud to congratulate affiliate faculty member Dennis Hirsch, who was formally invested as the Lawrence "Larry" Herman…
TDAI is proud to acknowledge Faculty Member Huan Sun, Computer Science and Engineering Associate Professor, for receiving two competitive research grants from Open Philanthropy to advance AI…
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…
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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This week for the TDAI Data Science Spotlight, we are highlighting core faculty member, Xia Ning, and her pioneering research in AI-powered drug discovery.
Dr. Ning, a professor of…
Electric vehicles, also known as EVs, are more than just a mode of transportation – they are a reflection of who we are. A research study co-authored by TDAI core faculty member, Andre Carrel,…
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…
Study analyzes millions of U.S. prescriptions over 10 years
by Emily Caldwell, caldwell.151@osu.edu
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The combination of prescribed…
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…
Xinmiao Zhang, core TDAI faculty member in ECE, has been elevated to the prestigious grade of IEEE Fellow in recognition of her outstanding contributions to error-correcting codes and…
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…
TDAI's Foundations of Data Science & AI CoP directors are organizing a monthly mini-tutorial series presented by graduate students and postdocs this semester…
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…
Call for Papers—Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference 2025
The fourth annual Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference (CLPSC) will take place at
Members of the Imageomics Institute won Best Student Paper honors at the 2024 IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference for their BioCLIP species identification research…
TDAI Core faculty member Ping Zhang (Computer Science & Engineering, Biomedical Informatics) and team have designed a new artificial intelligence model that emulates randomized…
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…
TDAI core faculty Macarius Donneyong (College of Pharmacy and College of Public Health) has been invited to serve as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine …
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 Ping Zhang, PhD, associate professor of computer science and engineering and biomedical informatics, is lead PI of a team awarded a new Accelerator grant from OSU's President…
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…
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…
TDAI core faculty Dennis Hirsch, professor in law and computer science and the director of Program on Data and Governance, has been invited to contribute to shaping international AI policy and…
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…
TDAI faculty director Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, has been elected to…
Congratulations to TDAI affiliates Yu Su and Micha Elsner, TDAI core faculty Huan Sun, and their students for receiving Outstanding Paper, an Area Chair Award, and two Honorable Mentions…
By Tatyana Woodall, news.osu.edu
While it can take years for the pharmaceutical industry to create medicines capable of treating or curing human disease…
By Emily Caldwell, news.osu.edu
TDAI core faculty Ping Zhang, PhD, is senior author on a paper in Nature Machine Intelligence about a new machine learning model that estimates optimal…
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…
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 Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention, led by TDAI core faculty Dr. Barb Kowalcyk, associate professor of food science and technology, hosted a conference and think tank April 3…
Study analyzes avian cross-country biodiversity changes over a year
By Emily Caldwell, osu.news.edu
There is much more to avian biodiversity in the United States…
TDAI faculty director Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf will kick off the University of Bristol’s AI & Nature Week Feb. 27 as a featured speaker at the forefront of the field of computational ecology. Berger…
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…
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…
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 core faculty members Jennifer Sinnott, associate professor of Statistics, and Macarius Donneyong, assistant professor of Outcomes and Translational Sciences (College of Pharmacy) and Health…
TDAI core faculty member Raef Bassily, assistant professor of computer science and engineering and co-director of TDAI's Foundations of Data Science and AI community of practice, has earned a $500…
In November 2020, Tanya Berger-Wolf was new to Ohio State. She was leading the university’s computer modeling and analytics response to COVID-19 while also learning the ropes directing the…
TDAI core faculty Mike Rayo, assistant professor of integrated systems engineering, is leading the engineering component of a new College of Engineering/College of Nursing collaboration that will…
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 Rongjun Qin and a team of three GRA/students were recognized at the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Congress that was held in…