- Launched bachelor’s and master’s programs that are growing every year.
- Created a NY Center of Excellence and a Rochester Data Science Consortium to further collaborations with local companies.
- Obtained National Science Foundation funding for a summer research experience for undergraduates (REU) program, and a research traineeship (NRT) program that provides cross-training for PhD students in computer science, brain and cognitive science, and data science.
- Hired four faculty through interdisciplinary searches.
- Developed of a number of research initiatives focused on data science in health care and human and machine intelligence.
- Provided seed funding for 12 collaborative research projects by University faculty in those areas.
- Moved into Wegmans Hall, its new home, last summer.
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National search launched for new director of data science
The Goergen Institute for Data Science, located in Wegmans Hall, was founded at the University of Rochester in 2014. (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster)
The University of Rochester has launched a national search for a new director of its Goergen Institute for Data Science.
The University has made a $100 million commitment to data science, which it has identified as its top research priority.
“We’re not bringing in someone to build a program, but to bring it to the next level,” says Wendi Heinzelman, dean of the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Heinzelman and Gloria Culver, dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, will serve as co-chairs of a University search committee comprised primarily of faculty members.
Henry Kautz, the current Robin and Tim Wentworth Director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science, is stepping down after leading the institute since its founding in 2014. Ehsan Hoque, the Asaro-Biggar ’92 Family Fellow in Data Science and assistant professor of computer science, will serve as interim director while the search is conducted.
“We are very grateful for Henry’s commitment and tireless efforts that have brought the Institute to where it is today,” Culver says.
Under Kautz, the Goergen Institute: