Are you a graduate student or postdoc curious about the emerging field of AI+Science? Build cross-institutional community and spur new research directions focused on AI-enabled scientific discovery across the physical and biological sciences at the AI+Science Summer School 2026! 🔗 👇️

Connect with data science and AI practitioners, academics, and aficionados from across Chicago at Chicago Data Night! This month’s event will take place at the new DSI building on the UChicago campus in Hyde Park. Featuring guest speaker Milan McGraw, Head of Generative AI & Machine Learning at AWS

This morning at DSI: Alejandro A. Franco, Professor at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, joins us for this week’s AI & Scientific Discovery Online Seminar! Professor Franco will present ‘Accelerating Battery Manufacturing through Digital Twins’ ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

Are you a UChicago STEM PhD student curious about integrating data science and AI tools into your research? Accelerate discovery with the PhD Certificate in Data Science, a two-year certificate that enables you to apply DS/AI technologies in your research uchicago.infoready4.com#freeformComp...

Accelerating Battery Manufacturing through Digital Twins Tomorrow: Alejandro A. Franco, Professor at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, introduces a digital twin platform that uses AI to optimize battery manufacturing Join us at 10am CT tomorrow ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

I'm incredibly proud of my former @uchicagocs.bsky.social and @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social student Elena Orlova and collaborator Aleksei Ustimenko for their groundbreaking work building @simulacraai.

Applications for the 2026 AI+Science Summer School close in one week! Join us for a program building community across institutions and spurring new research directions focused on AI-enabled scientific discovery across the physical and biological sciences datascience.uchicago.edu/events/ai-sc...

🌃 Chicago Data Night is in one week! Join us for a special Chicago Data Night at the new DSI building on the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park! Featuring guest speaker Milan McGraw, Head of Generative AI & Machine Learning at AWS RSVP at datascience.uchicago.edu/events/chica...

From a UChicago PhD in Computer Science to the @forbes.com 30 Under 30 list Elena Orlova studied under @beccawillett.bsky.social. Now she's co-founded Simulacra AI with Aleksei Ustimenko and Fabio Falcioni, a company that cuts quantum simulation costs up to 50x, opening new doors for innovation

An interdisciplinary team at UChicago has won a distinguished Laude Institute Moonshots Seed Grant @ianfoster42.bsky.social, @pedramh.bsky.social, Michael Kremer, and @beccawillett.bsky.social will work to advance actionable AI weather forecasting in developing economies in Africa and Asia 🔗 ⬇️

Probabilistic Inference of Ice Flow Law Using Simulation-Based Machine Learning Next week’s entry in the Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series features Emma Liu, Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellow in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago! Join us on April 21st

Tomorrow: Meet OpenAI’s Global Head of Innovation Policy, James Hairston! Join the Data Science Institute and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation for a Lunch & Learn with James Hairston tomorrow at DSI Registration 🔗 in reply ⬇️

🤔 Do AI chatbots harm critical thinking? It might depend on when you use them Featured in @sciencenews.bsky.social: New research from @mnlee.bsky.social finds that people who use chatbots after starting work on a problem perform better on critical thinking tests than those who start with chatbots

✨ Accelerating innovative Midwest AI startups with new partnerships DSI and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Microsoft and AI Research Commons supporting early-stage AI startups from Third Coast Foundry universities

⏰ Applications for the PhD Certificate in Data Science are due in one week! UChicago STEM doctoral students: Don’t miss your opportunity to discover how you can apply data science and AI technologies in your research uchicago.infoready4.com#freeformComp...

Ready to accelerate your career in data science with a program integrating business strategy, project-based learning, case studies, and more? Explore the MS in Applied Data Science in-person program at next week’s info session! Registration 🔗 in reply ⬇️

We're pleased to welcome Millennium as a new Industry Affiliate Partner! Together, we'll pursue joint initiatives to expand applied learning opportunities for students and help train the next generation of financial data science and quantitative leaders datascience.uchicago.edu/news/univers...

@rnogueiraneuro.bsky.social, assistant professor of Neurobiology and the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Chicago, joins us for today’s entry in the Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series! Nogueira will explore ‘The geometry of context-dependent biased decisions during learning’

Tackling real-world scientific challenges with AI Today is the kickoff for the 2026 AI+Science Hackathon! Best of luck to the competing teams, we can’t wait to see the innovations you’ll create at the intersection of machine learning and scientific discovery

Featured in SIAM News: Research from AICE Faculty Director, @pedramh.bsky.social, and colleagues, identifies gaps in AI weather forecast models when predicting rare and extreme weather events. They also offer new solutions for improving these AI-based weather forecasts 🔗 to full story ⬇️

✨ Celebrate five years of partnership between DSI and the 11th Hour Project at our upcoming event, Advancing Community-Centered Data Science: Five Years of Partnership! We’ll showcase breakthroughs and achievements our partnership has inspired over the past five years RSVP by May 1st (🔗⬇️)

Curious about student life in the MS in Applied Data Science program? Get all your questions answered by current full-time in-person student, Eloi Bernier, at our next ‘Ask a Student’ information session! Join us on Monday, April 20th datascience.uchicago.edu/events/ask-a...

Registration is still open for Thursday’s Lunch & Learn with OpenAI’s Global Head of Innovation Policy, James Hairston! Registration is required for this special event. Learn more at datascience.uchicago.edu/events/opena...

Join us for this week’s entry in the AI & Scientific Discovery Online Seminar AI for Battery Series! Featuring Alejandro A. Franco, Professor at @upjv-univ.bsky.social Join us online or at DSI on Friday, April 17th at 10am CT ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

The geometry of context-dependent biased decisions during learning Don’t miss tomorrow’s entry in the Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series! Featuring @rnogueiraneuro.bsky.social, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Chicago

Milan McGraw, the Head of Generative AI & Machine Learning at AWS, joins us for this month’s Chicago Data Night on Wednesday, April 22nd! This month’s event will be hosted at the new DSI building on the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park RSVP 🔗 inr reply 👇️

Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University, joins us for today’s entry in the Distinguished Speaker Series! Kleinberg will present ‘Formal Models of Language Generation’ Join us at 12pm at DSI

This morning at DSI: Vidushi Sharma, Staff Research Scientist at IBM, presents as part of the AI & Scientific Discovery Online Seminar AI for Battery Series! Seminar starts online at 10am CT - ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

UChicago STEM PhD students: Ever wondered what data science and AI could do for your research? Accelerate your research with the PhD Certificate in Data Science! You’ll gain valuable data science and AI insights that can be applied to your STEM research uchicago.infoready4.com#freeformComp...

OpenAI’s Global Head of Innovation Policy, James Hairston, will be at DSI for a special Lunch & Learn event! Don’t miss your opportunity to meet with James on Thursday, April 16th Registration is required. Learn more at datascience.uchicago.edu/events/opena...

Tomorrow: Vidushi Sharma, Staff Research Scientist at IBM, joins us for this week’s entry in the AI & Scientific Discovery Online Seminar AI for Battery Series! Join us online or at DSI at 10am CT tomorrow ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

Lillian Lee, the Charles Roy Davis professor of computer science at Cornell University, shares insights from analysis of the “key” moments in conversations at today’s entry in the Distinguished Speaker Series! Join us at 12pm at DSI

Next week’s entry in the Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series features Ramon Nogueira Manas, assistant professor of Neurobiology and the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Chicago! Join us on Tuesday, April 14th

At DSI, it’s not just about keeping up with AI—it’s about putting our researchers and students at the forefront That’s why we partnered with NVIDIA to host a watch party for Jensen Huang’s GTC 2026 keynote to ensure our community is engaging directly with the ideas shaping what’s next 🔗 ⬇️

Can redirecting conversations in mental health therapy lead to greater patient satisfaction? Lillian Lee, the Charles Roy Davis professor of computer science at Cornell University, presents a new analysis on the “key” moments in conversations at tomorrow’s entry in the Distinguished Speaker Series

Engage with a community of data science and AI practitioners, academics, and aficionados across Chicago at Chicago Data Night! This month’s event will be hosted at DSI on the UChicago Hyde Park campus with guest speaker Milan McGraw, Head of Generative AI & Machine Learning at AWS! 🔗 in reply 👇️

Discover the emerging field of AI-enabled scientific discovery and build community across institutions and disciplines at the 2026 AI+Science Summer School! Applications are due Wednesday, April 22nd datascience.uchicago.edu/events/ai-sc...

Expand your potential for discovery by integrating data science and AI methods into your research with the PhD Certificate in Data Science! UChicago doctoral students from STEM disciplines outside of data science are invited to apply 🔗 in reply 👇️

TOMORROW: Explore stratified turbulence: climate’s mysterious mixer with Colm-cille P. Caulfield, Professor of Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge! Caulfield will review recent studies advancing our understanding of stratified turbulence and mixing

Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal, joins us for today’s entry in the Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series! UPerreault-Levasseur will present methods for reconstructing high-fidelity astronomical images while addressing key challenges

Don’t miss this week’s entry in the AI & Scientific Discovery Online Seminar AI for Battery Series! Vidushi Sharma, Staff Research Scientist at IBM, joins us on Friday, April 10th Learn more at ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

What can new analysis reveal about the key moments in conversations between mental-health therapists or crisis counselors and their clients? Don’t miss Thursday’s entry in the Distinguished Speaker Series with Lillian Lee, the Charles Roy Davis professor of computer science at Cornell University!

Join us on Wednesday for the next entry in the AICE Speaker Series! Colm-cille P. Caulfield, Professor of Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge, will review recent studies advancing our understanding of various key properties of stratified turbulence and mixing

Explore recent advances in Bayesian image reconstruction and high-dimensional inference, with a focus on applications to lensing, at tomorrow’s entry in the Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series! Featuring Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal

Formal Models of Language Generation Join us on Friday, April 10th, for a presentation from Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social!

Colm-cille P. Caulfield, Professor of Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge, reviews recent studies that have advanced our understanding of various key properties of stratified turbulence and mixing on Wednesday, April 8th! Part of the AICE Speaker Series

What if AI scientists could talk to each other? UChicago's @chenhaotan.bsky.social and the CHAI Lab built Agent4Science, a social network for science where AI agents share, critique, and debate each other’s work. Scientific discourse at scale, with humans in the loop.

Explore how AI accelerates research, enables breakthroughs, and shapes the future of innovation across fields at today’s AI & Scientific Discovery Online Seminar with Kang Xu, CTO of SES AI! Part of the AI for Battery Series Seminar begins at 10am CT ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

Peer review is in a "death spiral," says UChicago's @chenhaotan.bsky.social, and AI writing tools are speeding it up. His team built OpenAIReview, an open, AI-assisted reviewing tool, to help: openaireview.github.io Read more: datascience.uchicago.edu/insights/ope...

Taking a turn for the better? Pivoting and pivotal moments in mental-health counseling conversations Don’t miss the next entry in the Distinguished Speaker Series! Featuring Lillian Lee, the Charles Roy Davis professor of computer science at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social Join us April 9th at DSI