The Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub builds and strengthens partnerships across industry, academia, nonprofits, and government to address societal and scientific challenges, spur economic development, and accelerate innovation in the national big data ecosystem. Read our monthly newsletter for the latest updates, news, events, and opportunities from the Hub. |
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New DSRR Spanish Resources!
The NEBDHub is excited to announce the addition of 75+ new Spanish language data science resources to the DSRR, an open-access and curated set of resources for data science learners, educators, researchers, and career explorers of all professional backgrounds and education levels. Explore the DSRR and other Spanish language data science resources with the NEBDHub!
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NSF Report: Diversity and STEM: Women,
Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities
Representation of different groups based on sex, race or ethnicity, and disability status varies within the STEM workforce, and representation in STEM occupations is uneven relative to the distribution of these groups in the working age population. This report provides high-level insights from multiple data sources into the diversity of the STEM workforce in the United States.
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NIST Risk Management Framework Aims to Improve Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence
The Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0), a guidance document for voluntary use by organizations designing, developing, deploying or using AI systems to help manage the many risks of AI technologies.
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EI Working Group Meeting
Date: February 15th
Are you interested in the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational systems, educators and students? Would you like to collaborate with other researchers and develop ideas to enable a better future? If so, please join us for the COVID Information Commons (CIC)'s next Education Impacts (EI) Working Group meeting on February 15th at 1PM (ET). The group will meet the third Wednesday of each month.
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Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub Collaboration Cafe
Date: February 15th
The Collaboration Cafe is a monthly webinar open to all that is focused on building a community of data science researchers in the Midwest and beyond to explore funding opportunities and develop proposals. We are focused on elevating early-career scholars, particularly from underresourced institutions, but everyone is welcome.
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Trusted CI Webinar Series
Date: Febraury 27th
The mission of Trusted CI is to lead in the development of an NSF Cybersecurity Ecosystem with the workforce, knowledge, processes, and cyberinfrastructure that enables trustworthy science and NSF’s vision of a nation that is a global leader in research and innovation. This webinar will feature a presentation by Rick Wagner titled "Security Program for the NIH’s Common Fund Data Ecosystem" and begins at 11AM (ET).
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Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Working Group
Date: March 3rd
The Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Working Group brings together data scientists and cyberinfrastructure professionals. Areas covered include data management and analytics tools and frameworks, and use of data science to solve real world problems in areas such as transportation, water quality, public health, disaster response, and cybersecurity. Working Group meetings are at 1PM (ET).
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Education and Workforce Working Group
Date: March 3rd
The Education and Data Science Workforce Group seeks to develop: open data to support education; faculty and student data science training; a growing data science workforce; academic training to support industry and government needs; and workforce development experiences for students.
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Women in Data Science (WiDS) Stanford Conference 2023
Date: March 8th
Join the Stanford University for the Women in Data Science (WiDS) central conference, a technical conference featuring outstanding women discussing their exceptional work in data science and related fields, in a wide variety of domains.
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Sustainability Now! Action-Oriented Solutions for
Food Systems, Nutrition, and Diet
Dates: March 8th - 10th
The Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy presents the Tufts Nutrition Data Symposium (TNDS). This symposium establishes a necessary forum where students, researchers, academics, and young professionals can share, discuss, and explore diverse opinions, experiences, and expertise on emerging topics in the fields of nutrition and public health sciences.
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PPPR Working Group Meeting
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Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and
Engineering (CASE) Workshop
Dates: March 26th - 29th
The CASE workshop is an exciting opportunity to learn from science policy and advocacy experts about the role of science in policymaking and the federal policy-making process. The workshop is being held in Washington, D.C. and teaches students about Congress, the federal budget, and science communication during the three-day course.
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Indigenous Innovation, Data Economies, and AI (IDEAS) Summit
Date: March 31st
AI and ML are touted as the next step improving health, constructing digital systems to innovate new technologies, pioneering creative and artistic expression, and driving data economies. These movements necessitate the equitable inclusion of Indigenous communities to avoid further data erasures and inequities resulting from algorithmic bias. Join the conversation in the IDEAS Summit this March!
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Cancer AI Research: Computational Approaches Addressing Imperfect Data
Dates: April 3rd - 4th
The goals of this National Cancer Institute workshop are to (1) examine the state of the science for AI methods designed to operate on noisy, complex, or low-dimensional data, (2) explore how these methods may be applied to key areas of cancer research, and (3) discuss processes for identifying the biological questions that will motivate further advances in machine learning.
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10th Annual NJBDA Symposium: Big Data in FinTech
Date: May 9th
The New Jersey Big Data Alliance (NJBDA) is an alliance of 18 higher education institutions, as well as industry and government members, that catalyzes collaboration in advanced computing and data analytics research, education and technology.
Paper abstracts for the 10th Annual NJBDA Symposium will be accepted through March 25th on topics including, but not limited to: AI & Finance, Blockchain, Crypto & Digital Currencies, NFTs, and Big Data Business Intelligence.
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Bio-IT World 2023 Hackathon
Dates: May 15th - 16th
Bio-IT World is proud to bring together innovative data scientists and developers from across the industry to solve real-world data challenges using the principles of Open Source & FAIR Data. In 2023, the fifth annual Bio-IT Hackathon will continue in the tradition of uniting life science and IT teams to tackle actual bioinformatics projects with maximum impact potential.
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Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics and Social Sciences Sessions
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Professional Opportunities
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New Trends in Informatics Research Conference
Join the 2023 Ben Ami Lipetz Conference: New Trends in Informatics Research (NTIR), the yearly conference on current trends in information science research held by College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC) at UAlbany on April 26-27, 2023. This event seeks to bring together the work of researchers and scholars from different disciplines to center on the implications and consequences of the free flow of information in computing.
Proposal Submissions due February 14th.
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CFP: 2023 Data Science for Social Good
Work closely with data science professionals and students to make better use of your data. The University of Washington Data Science for Social Good summer program at the eScience Institute brings together data scientists and domain researchers to work on focused, collaborative projects for societal benefit.
Proposals due February 17th.
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HackNY Fellows Program
The hackNY Fellows Program is a Summer-long co-living experience for full time Higher Ed (college or graduate school) tech interns. The Fellows Program is organized every summer, with rolling admission opening in November 2022. Follow hackNY’s Twitter to stay in-the-loop on upcoming application dates and updates.
Proposals due February 17th.
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EHR Core Research: Building Capacity
in STEM Education Research
The NSF's Education and Human Resources (EHR) Core Research’s Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) supports projects that build investigators’ capacity to carry out high-quality STEM education research that will enhance the nation’s STEM education enterprise.
Proposals due February 24th.
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Boston Area Research Initiative Seed Grants
The Boston Area Research Initiative is inviting applications for research seed grants for projects occurring during the 2023 – 2024 academic year. The grants will support graduate students conducting original data-oriented research on the Boston area at the intersection of scholarship and policy.
Applications due February 24th.
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2023 CBIIT Summer Internship Program Accepting Applications
Are you an undergraduate student who wants to gain valuable experience in data sharing, data aggregation, and data analysis? NCI’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) invites you to participate in the NIH Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research (SIP).
Applications due March 1st.
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Datawhys Summer Internship Program 2023
The DataWhys Project at The University of Memphis is developing a training program for HBCU students outside the core data science fields of statistics, machine learning, and computer science. As part of this internship, interns will use and provide feedback on this training program and complete an original data science research project—no background in data science is needed!
Applications due March 5th.
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Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program in Data Science and Analytics
North Carolina A&T State University is hosting a ten-week program in Data Science and Analytics for science, mathematics and statistics, computer science, engineering, technology, business, and social science majors. This program will engage student interns via information technology and cloud computing in investigative research that entails developing tools in data analytics.
Applications due March 8th.
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Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP)
BD-STEP is a two-year fellowship opportunity managed jointly by the National Cancer Institute and the Veterans Health Administration that uses data science to improve outcomes for cancer patients. BD-STEP graduates gain diverse skillsets needed in healthcare data science careers.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through August 31st.
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Program to Empower Partnerships with Industry & Government
PEPI-G supports data faculty members, research scientists, postdocs, graduates, and undergraduates working on high level problems for the federal government. PEPI-G provides awards to defray housing, transportation, and other costs associated with trips to engage with industry or government partners to launch new collaborations and research projects.
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