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Yang Feng speaks to attendees during TDAI’s Adaptive Knowledge Transfer seminar in Pomerene Hall.
By Brandon Elmore

Ohio State researchers and students gathered in Pomerene Hall on Sept. 24 for two events exploring transfer learning: a workshop featuring Ohio State faculty and graduate students, followed by a…

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By Cerena Dawson

TDAI Director Tanya Berger-Wolf speaks onstage during the 2026 TDAI Fall Research Kick
By Brandon Elmore

Faculty, staff, students and partners from across Ohio State gathered Sept. 9 at the Energy Advancement and Innovation Center for the 2026 TDAI Fall Research Kickoff.

The event highlighted…

Portrait of TDAI core faculty member Ping Zhang.
By Brandon Elmore

A new study led by Ohio State researchers found that illicit fentanyl use is more than twice as common as medically based use in the United States and is associated with a substantially higher…

Dr. Krishna Chaitanya Rao
By Brandon Elmore

Dr. Krishna Chaitanya Rao Kathala, program director at The Ohio State University’s Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI), has been invited to lead a featured session at the inaugural…

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By Brandon Elmore

The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) welcomes Vincent Davidson as a Graduate Teaching Associate supporting the Master of Translational Data Analytics (MTDA) program.

Davidson is…

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By Cerena Dawson

TDAI Faculty Member Qin Ma and his research team have received a new five-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) R24 grant to advance research on congenital heart defects in Down syndrome. The…

Dr. Krishna Chaitanya Rao
By Cerena Dawson

TDAI is celebrating Dr. Krishna Chaitanya Rao Kathala, our Program Director who leads interdisciplinary research and oversees the Master of Translational Data Analytics Institute (MTDA), whose…

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By Cerena Dawson

TDAI faculty member Xiaolin Cheng is part of the collaborative team that launched Buckeye BioLaunch at The Ohio State University. Buckeye BioLaunch is a new AI-enabled initiative that will…

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By Brandon Elmore

Researchers from across The Ohio State University recently gathered in Pomerene Hall for the Joint Human-AI Systems (JHAS) Idea Lab, an interactive workshop hosted by the…

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By Cerena Dawson

Associate Professor of Anthropology Sean Downey, an affiliate of TDAI and Core Faculty in the OSU Sustainability Institute, led the paper, "Adaptive Self-Organization of Global Swidden Forests,"…

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By Brandon Elmore

The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at The Ohio State University is now accepting applications for the 2026 AI and Data Science Graduate Fellows Program.

This prestigious two…

TDAI Data Scientist Alex Davis
By Brandon Elmore

TDAI Successfully Concludes AI in Your Research Summer Workshop Series

This summer, the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) successfully completed its AI in Your Research Workshop…

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TDAI is accepting proposals for 18-month interdisciplinary thematic programs designed to catalyze bold, transformative research with the potential to shape the future of data science and AI in…

Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf smiles and gestures with both hands while presenting in front of a large screen displaying a grid of colorful butterfly specimens.
By Brandon Elmore

Translational Data Analytics Institute Faculty Director Tanya Berger-Wolf has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science—one of the most prestigious honors…

Kristina Markel
By Brandon Elmore

As part of TDAI's yearlong Geometrization of AI research theme, faculty gathered on March 24 for a seminar on private philanthropic funding for AI-focused research. Kristina…

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By Brandon Elmore

The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) and AI(x) Hub welcomed researchers, students, and partners from across Ohio State and beyond for the inaugural OSU AI Research Summit…

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By Brandon Elmore

Seminar and Workshop Explore Spatial AI Through a Geometric Lens

The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) hosted a seminar and interactive workshop on March 11–12, 2026 featuring

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By Brandon Elmore

The Geometrization of AI theme within the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) welcomed Misha Belkin, Professor at the University of California, San…

Wagner Meira Jr. presenting to an audience in Pomerene Hall with a projected slide on human-centered AI for health behind him.
By Brandon Elmore

Joint Human–AI Systems Speaker Series Explores Responsible AI for Cardiovascular Health

January 30, 2026

The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) welcomed

A workshop participant uses a LI-6800 portable photosynthesis system to measure leaf gas exchange during the TDAI-hosted LI-COR training in Pomerene Hall.
By Brandon Elmore

On Thursday, January 15, the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) hosted a full-day LI-COR Photosynthesis Workshop and Lab in

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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…

Audience members seated in a semi-circle listen to a panel discussion on human–AI systems in a collaborative event space at Ohio State.
By Brandon Elmore

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…

Dr. Gauri Joshi
By Brandon Elmore

As part of The Geometrization of AI theme, the Translational Data Analytics Institute welcomed Dr. Gauri Joshi of Carnegie Mellon University to Pomerene Hall on Friday,…

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By Olivia Winner

Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Distinguished University Professor and Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science, has received a 2025 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual…

Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez, Carnegie Mellon University
By Brandon Elmore

TDAI welcomed Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez of Carnegie Mellon University on November 20, 2025, for a seminar exploring how humans and AI systems can work together more effectively…

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By Brandon Elmore

As part of its Yearlong Theme on Joint Human–AI Systems in an Agentic World, the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) hosted an engaging session exploring how artificial…

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By Brandon Elmore

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,…

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By Olivia Winner

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…

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By Olivia Winner

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…

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By Olivia Winner

The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) proudly congratulates Dr. Ping Zhang on his election to the esteemed 2025 Class of Academy Fellows of the…

Professor Dennis Hirsch
By Olivia Winner

The Translational Data Analytics Institute is proud to congratulate affiliate faculty member Dennis Hirsch, who was formally invested as the Lawrence "Larry" Herman…

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By Brandon Elmore

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…

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By Olivia Winner

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…

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By Olivia Winner

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…

Dennis Hirsch, College of Law Professor
By Brandon Elmore

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to establish the Center on Responsible AI and Governance (CRAIG), a multi-university Industry…

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By Olivia Winner

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…

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By Brandon Elmore

We were proud to welcome the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2025) to Columbus, Ohio, on August 3–5, 2025, hosted in the …

Ohio State Faculty Darren Drewry
By Brandon Elmore

TDAI Catalyst Grant Fuels Breakthrough in Explainable Machine Learning for Agricultural Water Management

A new study published in Agricultural Water Management…

Ohio State Faculty Macarius Donneyong
By Brandon Elmore

TDAI Faculty Affiliate Contributes to National Academies Report on Aligning Therapeutic Development Investments with Public Health Needs

The National Academies of Sciences,…

Mike Rayo and Dane Morey
By Brandon Elmore

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…

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TDAI core faculty Subhadeep Paul (Department of Statistics) and Mahdi Khali (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) are PI and co-PI respectively on a new NSF award, "Heterogeneous…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

During the week of July 7th, the Translational Data Analytics Institute welcomed students entering grades 7 through 9 for its annual Data Science Summer Camp, a hands-on immersive…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

TDAI is proud to announce its Catalyst Grant recipients for the 2025-2026 year! Four outstanding researchers have been selected based upon their project proposals and have each been awarded $10…

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By Brandon Elmore

The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at The Ohio State University proudly hosted the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025)…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

The Translational Data Analytics Institute is thrilled to share that Dr. Weidan Cao, TDAI Affiliate Faculty, and their research team have received funding from NCI for a new R01 on Multimodal AI…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

This week in our Data Science Spotlight we are highlighting TDAI core faculty member, Joseph Bayer, and his interesting research into the world of social media and its effects on our behavior and…

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By Brandon Elmore

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…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

Determining cause of death is not always straightforward, especially in parts of the world where medical resources are lacking. In fact, fewer than one-third of global deaths receive an official…

Computer Science and Engineering Associate Professor Huan Sun
By Brandon Elmore

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…

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By Olivia Winner

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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TDAI Data Scientist Alex Davis
By Brandon Elmore

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…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

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…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

The Translational Data Analytics Institute co-hosted the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Complex Systems workshop event with the AI Edge Institute on May 8-9 in…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

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,…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

This week in the Data Science Spotlight, we are highlighting TDAI core faculty member Steven Quiring and his impactful work at the intersection of atmospheric science and data analytics. Dr…

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By Olivia Winner

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…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

On March 31 – April 2, 2025, the Translational Data Analytics Institute held the 2025 Data Science Leadership Summit, an event that gathered around 100 distinguished leaders, educators, and…

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Study analyzes millions of U.S. prescriptions over 10 years

by Emily Caldwell, caldwell.151@osu.edu

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The combination of prescribed…

Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf, Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University
By Olivia Winner

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…

Dr. Huan Sun
By Olivia Winner

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…

Accelerator Award winners Melamed, Paul, and Hirsch
By Katherine McLaughlin

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…

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TDAI is accepting proposals for central Big Idea Themes that will be the focus of TDAI programming for a year, with a longer-term vision. TDAI will fund the selected themes and teams and support…

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By Katherine McLaughlin

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…

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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…

Huan Sun & Xia Ning
By Olivia Winner

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…

Byte-ing Into Biodiversity: AI Powers Conservation Conversations at COP16

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…

Responsible AI practices help companies create value

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…

2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum - Nov. 7 & 8

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…

2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum - Nov. 7 & 8

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…

Attention Graduate Students!

TDAI's Foundations of Data Science & AI CoP directors are organizing a monthly mini-tutorial series presented by graduate students and postdocs this semester…

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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…

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The Translational Data Analytics Institute congratulates the teams who received the 2024-25 TDAI Interdisciplinary Research Pilot Awards:

David Melamed (TDAI; Sociology, ASC)…

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Call for Papers—Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference 2025

The fourth annual Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference (CLPSC) will take place at

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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…

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Collaborative teamwork is vital to science. Learn from a team of experts

Interdisciplinary Team Science - EEOB/ANTHRO/ENR 5510 - is being offered Autumn 2024 for graduate and undergraduate…

IRFF 2024

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…

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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…

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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

IRFF 2024

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…

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TDAI Internal Adivsory Board member Cynthia Carnes (Pharmacy, Physiology and Cell Biology, Senior AVP for Research Operations), and TDAI Affiliate faculty members Matthew…

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 …

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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.

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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…

Ping Zhang

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…

David Melamed, Brent Simpson, Bradley Montgomery

TDAI Core faculty member Dr. David Melamed (Sociology), Dr. Brent Simpson (Sociology, University of South Carolina), and OSU graduate student Bradley…

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TDAI Core faculty member Dennis Hirsch (Law), TDAI Leadership Team member Srini Parthasarathy (Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science & Engineering), TDAI…

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When Natalie Hurst started the Masters of Translational Data Analytics program she was working as a data analyst at the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC). She knew she wanted to expand…

Title Card: Computational Approaches for a Just and Sustainable World

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…

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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…

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TDAI affiliate Dr. Harmony Bench, professor of dance, and Dr. Kate Elswit from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama are leading a dance data project on choreographer Alvin Ailey,…

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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…

Professor Dennis Hirsch

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…

Dennis Hirsch

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…

Headshots: Dr. Xia Ning, Dr. Yoonkyung Lee

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.

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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 (TDAI) and Sustainability Institute (SI) invite proposals for student flash talks and posters for the 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Fall…

The Translational Data Analytics Institute and Sustainability Institute invite proposals from faculty and postdocs for five-minute flash talks for the 2023 Interdisciplinary…

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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…

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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…

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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…

By TDAI core faculty Dennis Hirsch, Professor of Law and Computer Science, Director of the Program on Data and Governance; and TDAI affiliate Piers Norris Turner, Associate Professor of Philosophy &…

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On Sunday, May 7th TDAI's Master of Translational Data Analytics program gained 14 more alumni. For those who chose to walk in The Ohio State University's Commencement Ceremony, there were doubts…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Headshots: Dr. Robert Bond; Dr. Desheng Liu; Dr. Parinaz Naghizadeh; Dr. Rongjun Qin; Dr. Mike Rayo; Dr. Huan Sun

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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TDAI co-director Dr. Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been named a fellow of the Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) for his…

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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…

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By Amber Pasternak

I spoke with current Masters in Translational Data Analytics (MTDA) student Amy Cogswell via Zoom in December as the Autumn 2022 semester…

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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…

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TDAI core faculty member Darren Drewry, assistant professor of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering (FABE), received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early…

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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…

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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 …

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When I spoke with Luka Brkljacic via Zoom he was connecting from Serbia where he was working remotely while visiting family.

A member of our first graduating class, Luka…

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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…

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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…

Headshot: Dr. Darren Drewry

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…

Students and faculty discussing research at the 2022 Fall Forum poster session

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…

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TDAI Faculty Director Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf was an organizer and speaker of a plenary session on biodiversity at the inaugural U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine Symposium…

Dr. Joseph Bayer

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:…

Dr. Zhiqiang Lin

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…

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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…

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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…

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TDAI and partners in the Interdisciplinary Research Enabling Initiative will be issuing calls for proposals on Nov. 1 for:

Interdisciplinary Research Pilot Awards – up to $50K…

Jennifer Sinnott

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…

Raef Bassily

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…

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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…

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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.

Goonmeet Bajaj

Congrats to Goonmeet Bajaj for taking first place for graduate student research at the ACM’s TAPIA Conference, held Sept. 7-9 in in Washington, D.C. Her winning work, “Detection, Identification,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Professor Dennis Hirsch

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 Core Faculty Professor Huan Sun presents on Applications in Natural Language Processing

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…

Professor Christopher Stewart


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…

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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…

Professor Dennis Hirsch

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…

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TDAI Core Faculty Yingbin Liang, Professor of Electrical Computing and Engineering and Deputy Director of the NSF-funded AI-EDGE Institute, jointly with Prof. Junshan Zhang (UC-Davis), Prof. Hai …

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TDAI Core Faculty Macarius Donneyong, PhD, MPH, assistant professor in outcomes and translational sciences (Pharmacy) and health services management and policy (Public Health), is co-PI for a…

Alec Sheets

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…

Laura Pomeroy

Congratulations to TDAI Core Faculty Laura Pomeroy, assistant professor of environmental health sciences in the College of Public Health, was honored with the college’s 2022 Excellence in Teaching…

Rongjun Qin, Andre Carrel, Ping Zhang and Xinmiao Zhang

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…

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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…

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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…

Dr. Ping Zhang

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…

Dr. Caroline Wagner

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…

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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…

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“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,”…

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Rongjun Qin, associate professor of geodetic engineering, was named Associate Editor of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the official publication…

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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…

TDAI core faculty Macarius Donneyong (pharmacy, public health) has received an R01 award from the National Institutes of Health for the proposal "Significant high order drug interactions in the…

Yingbin Liang

Congratulations to Translational Data Analytics Institute core faculty Yingbin Liang, professor in computer science, and TDAI director Eric Fosler-Lussier,…

A belated congratulations to Translational Data Analytics Institute core faculty Macarius Donneyong, assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy and College of Public Health, for being elected…

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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…

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As part of the campus-wide Interdisciplinary Research Enabling Initiative, the Translational Data Analytics Institute and the following partners are accepting proposals for Interdisciplinary…

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Effort to include pilot awards, proposal development grants, postdoc fellows, workshops

Ten Ohio State University entities have joined forces to advance interdisciplinary science,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

A screen capture of the ted.com webpage of Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf's TEDx Talk

TED, the organization dedicated to "ideas worth spreading," is featuring TDAI director Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf's TEDx Talk "How your nature photos can help protect wild animals" on TED.com. The talk…

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Do you want to change the way data analytics is practiced addressing public health crises?

Do you want to apply what you learn to real-world problems?

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TDAI core faculty Kaifeng Jiang, associate professor of management and human resources, is lead author of a study published in the journal Personnel Psychology that suggests how…

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TDAI is hiring a Program Coordinator, Community Building & Event Planning, who will focus on enabling interdisciplinary research and creative expression by TDAI faculty affiliates, including…

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TDAI director Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf will speak on a panel at the SXSW EDU 2022 Conference and Festival, to be held March 7-10 in Austin, TX. The discussion, entitled "How Good AI Can Be AI for…

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Study allays fears that the medication may encourage drug use

By Jeff Grabmeier, news.osu.edu

The medication naloxone is so effective at saving the lives of opioid…

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A study co-authored by TDAI core faculty Macarius Donneyong, PhD, MPh, assistant professor of Outcomes and Translational Sciences in the College of Pharmacy, found that patient-clinician…

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Picture this: Computerized image analysis to help understand evolution

The Ohio State University has been awarded a $15M grant from the National Science Foundation to…

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TDAI core faculty Darren Drewry, assistant professor in Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, is part of a multi-institutional research project entitled COntext Aware LEarning for…

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Bear Braumoeller, professor of policitical science and co-director of TDAI's computational social science research community of practice, has received an NSF award for PhD students in his Modeling…

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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…

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TDAI core faculty Mike Rayo, assistant professor in integrated systems engineering and lead of the Cognitive Systems Engineering Lab, is co-investigator on a study that sought to reduce nurses'…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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TDAI core faculty member Steven Quiring (geography) has launched a three-year project funded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture that will…

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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…