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Where Data Meets Decision-Making: Inside Chicago Data Night
Chicago Data Night has become a cornerstone of Chicago’s data and AI community, bringing together professionals and academics for technically rigorous and timely conversations.
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2025–2026 Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series Highlights
The series creates a recurring forum for the emerging community of AI in Science researchers to share methodological advances, discuss challenges, and forge new collaborations.
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Finding Home: How North Dakota Native Vote and the University of Chicago Data Science Institute are Protecting Indigenous Voting Rights
A new tool born from a community partnership is supporting Native voters to navigate an ID system that wasn't built with them in mind.
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SciFM 2026 at UChicago: Inside the Premier Gathering of AI, Foundation Models, and the Future of Scientific Discovery
World-renowned researchers, national lab experts, and industry leaders convened at UChicago to ask: How is AI reshaping the practice of science—and what still stands in its way?
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Are Students Hiding Their AI Use? The Social Stigma Behind AI Use in the Classroom
New research by Assistant Professor Alex Kale and collaborators Yier Ling and Alex Imas finds that social desirability bias may lead students to underreport how often they use AI due to shame and peer pressure.
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Advancing Community-Centered Data Science: Five Years of Partnership
The University of Chicago’s Data Science Institute (DSI) recently celebrated five years of community-centered data science in partnership with The 11th Hour Project, the primary grantmaking arm of The Schmidt Family Foundation.
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AI + Science

A new paradigm of transformational AI-enabled scientific discovery across the physical and biological sciences, advancing core AI principles and training a new generation of diverse interdisciplinary scientists.

Data & Democracy

Cutting-edge research at the intersection of computation and democratic representation. How can data science innovations – better mechanisms, better models, better metrics – strengthen democracy?

AICE: AI for Climate

A program of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth and DSI, AI for Climate aims to accelerate and transform climate research with a focus on both scientific advances and societal impacts.

Data Ecology

The goal of data ecology is to study dataflows and design interventions to control how data impacts our world.

Novel Intelligence

Exploring how to train AI models that augment rather than mimic human capacity.

Work with us!

We have several job opportunities currently open, including faculty positions, postdoctoral and preceptorship programs, and technical and administrative staff positions.

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Upcoming Events

Join the DSI community for talks, workshops and other gatherings that spark new collaborations and technological discoveries.

Upcoming EventOct 19, 2026

The UChicago and Caltech AI+Science Conference 2026

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Advancing Community-Centered Data Science: Five Years of Partnership

Opportunities

The Data Science Institute offers programs and partnership opportunities for faculty, students, and organizations from the academic, government, business, and non-profit sectors. Learn more about our programs below.

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