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Super excited 3 days at the CECAM workshop co-organized with @drGregBowman, Bettina! Protein dynamics is definitely shaping up to be the next big topic in AI for Science! Huge thanks to @cecamEvents, @datascience_uw @UWMadisonChem, @TCI_UW_Madison, Emma & amazing DSI staff!
This week the Data Science Institute is hosting the @cecamEvents Flagship Workshop on Biomolecular Dynamics in the Age of Machine Learning, organized by DSI affiliate @XuhuiHuangChem, @drGregBowman, & Bettina Keller @datascience_uw @UWMadisonChem cecam.org/workshop-detai…
Very happy to see @SandesaraJay presenting the first simulation-based inference result from @ATLASexperiment at EPS HEP today. ◦Physics paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.01548 ◦Technical paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.01600 Several talks about SBI in that session! We’re at a tipping point
At next Tuesday's ML4MI seminar, Dr. Pingkun Yan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will present his work on "Medical Image Foundation Models for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction". 6/17, 10AM CT, Zoom link at ml4mi.wisc.edu/learning-oppor…

A nice article by @anilananth on using AI to explore design spaces, find unexpected solutions, (re)discover symmetries, and propose new relationships featuring @yuqirose @MarioKrenn6240 and myself. Note AI ≠ LLMs in this piece. quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-wi…
Construction on Morgridge Hall is nearly complete and we can’t wait to welcome students this fall! Take a look inside the final stages of construction and get a first glimpse at the some of stunning art that will be on display: cdis.wisc.edu/morgridge-hall…
DSI is thrilled to host this @cecamEvents workshop this week with @UWMadisonChem! @XuhuiHuangChem
This week the Data Science Institute is hosting the @cecamEvents Flagship Workshop on Biomolecular Dynamics in the Age of Machine Learning, organized by DSI affiliate @XuhuiHuangChem, @drGregBowman, & Bettina Keller @datascience_uw @UWMadisonChem cecam.org/workshop-detai…
Yesterday, I was on the Larry Meiller Show with host Lee Rayburn to talk about AI for an hour! It is so important that we have public media like @WPR to discuss the good and the bad of these important issues. @datascience_uw wpr.org/shows/larry-me…
White mold is one of the most damaging soybean diseases in the northern United States. This new tool helps farmers make decisions about treatment options. It was developed by a team including @UWMadisonCALS @badgercropdoc and DSI data scientist Maria Oros. @CropNetwork
Check out the Fungicide ROI Calculator for White Mold of Soybean from Extension at cropprotectionnetwork.org/white-mold-roi…. @BisonBeanDoc @badgercropdoc @DTelenko @dsmuelle @MartinChilvers1 @hoperbecton @datascience_uw @CFAES_OSU +others @SoyResearchInfo @SoybeanScience1 @WISoyCheckoff…
🎉 Great news: Our Machine Learning and Physical Sciences workshop at @NeurIPSConf will be back again this year! 🎉 Keep an eye out for updates on deadlines etc, we will be updating the website soon ml4physicalsciences.github.io #ML4PS2025 @ML4PhyS
Congratulations to DSI Affiliates @SharonYixuanLi and Jelena Diakonikolas, and Shivaram Venkataramanan, @WisconsinCS, on receiving @Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards!
Excited to receive the new faculty award from @Google for ML and systems pioneers in academia. "It is a challenging time to be conducting critical academic research given uncertainties in the funding environment. While Google’s funding is only a small part of the overall need,…
.@ImonBanerjee6's research addresses fairness in AI, multimodal deep learning, and AI translation for digital healthcare. She'll discuss her work at the July 14 ML4MI seminar, 10am CT on Zoom. @uwsmph ml4mi.wisc.edu/learning-oppor…

Check out this project from DSI Affiliate @gary_shiu!
Excited to share with you an exciting project with Jacky Yip @UWMadPhysics and @arnal_charles and @f_charton @Meta where we develop a transformer model to automate the generation of Calabi-Yau manifolds, extra dimensional spaces in string theory: arxiv.org/abs/2507.03732
.@SageJournals Sociological Methods & Research—housed at DSI—achieved a one-year impact factor of 6.5, ranking #3/210 among all sociology journals worldwide. Congrats to editor Felix Elwert, @UWSoc, and the @UWMadison students who have worked on SMR. journals.sagepub.com/home/SMR
The @NSF recently named 27 @UWMadison students in its annual Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Two CS students—@shawnim00 (advised by @SharonYixuanLi) and Seth Ockerman (advised by Shivaram Venkataraman)—were included. Meet the recipients: grad.wisc.edu/2025/04/08/15-…
DSI staff member @HEPfeickert is presenting a tutorial — Reproducible Machine Learning Workflows for Scientists with pixi — today at #SciPy2025.
🙌 We’re excited to have @HEPfeickert, John Kirkham, and @rarts_ruby teaching us "Reproducible Machine Learning Workflows for Scientists with pixi" at #SciPy2025! 🔥 Learn how to create fast, reliable, and reproducible ML environments using pixi, the next-gen package manager!
The @UWMadison Data Science Institute is proud to sponsor the 2025 Midwest Machine Learning Symposium!
Welcome to the 2025 Midwest Machine Learning Symposium! We’re proud to host this year’s convening at the University of Chicago. Explore today’s lineup of speakers and schedule of events at midwest-ml.org/2025/
Congratulations to Professors Matthias Katzfuss and Sündüz Keleş, who are part of a newly funded, interdisciplinary project to build the first AI foundation model for hyperspectral imaging. Learn more: ow.ly/ZaRy50WbSWl
.@anthonygitter designs computational methods to study diseases and develop new drugs and proteins. He also develops machine learning models to speed up the process of drug discovery. Learn more about his work in Faces of Data Science: datascience.wisc.edu/#faces @Morgridge_Inst

Join us for the CDIS Bay Area Founders Panel, where a group of Badger alumni founders will share their entrepreneurial journeys and explore today’s AI landscape. 📅 Tuesday, June 17 🕰️ 5:00-8:00 p.m. PST 📍 Computer History Museum Register today: cdis.wisc.edu/cdis-bay-area-…
Things are happening over at Morgridge Hall, the future home of CDIS, Computer Sciences, Statistics, and the iSchool. As of Tuesday, 6/10, the building's official name is emblazoned above the main entrance at Orchard & Johnson.