Data science is an important interdisciplinary field with significant impacts on many aspects of the modern world, including government, industry, academia, and the general public. Transdisciplinary Research In Principles Of Data Science (TRIPODS) brings together the statistics, mathematics, and theoretical computer science communities to develop the theoretical foundations of data science through integrated research and training activities focused on core algorithmic, mathematical, and statistical principles.
Cohort I Institutes
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Brown University
The mission of the Brown TRIPODS institute is to foster development and principled application of theory and methods of big data to discover, refine, and validate underlying theoretical models that govern a system or data-generating process, which in turn improve predictions of new outcomes.
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Columbia University
The Columbia TRIPODS Institute, hosted in the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, fosters research, education and center building around foundational topics that support the practice of data science, including (nonconvex) optimization, primitives for efficient computation, and interactive machine learning.
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Cornell University
This project creates a center of data science for improved decision-making that combines expertise from computer science, information science, mathematics, operations research, and statistics. The five concrete research directions proposed are: Privacy and Fairness, Learning on Social Graphs, Learning to Intervene, Uncertainty Quantification, and Deep Learning.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
The Transdisciplinary Research Institute for Advancing Data Science (TRIAD) integrates research and education in mathematical, statistical, and algorithmic foundations for data science.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The MIT Institute for Foundations of Data Science (MIFODS) is an interdisciplinary effort to develop the theoretical foundations of data science through integrated research and training activities. Our goal is to stimulate research and educational interactions between mathematics, statistics and theoretical computer science, both within MIT and in the research community at large.
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Northwestern University, Lehigh University, State University of New York at Stonybrook
The NSF TRIPODS Institute on Optimization and Learning, based at Lehigh University and in collaboration with Stony Brook and Northwestern Universities, has its current focus on new advances in tools for non-convex machine learning applications, in particular for various cases of training deep learning models.
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Ohio State University
This center advances the methodological and theoretical foundations of data analytics by considering the geometric and topological aspects of complex data from mathematical, statistical and algorithmic perspectives, thus enhancing the synergy between the Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics communities.
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University of Arizona
UA-TRIPODS is an integrated research and educational institute in data sciences at UA, with focus on theoretical foundations. The mission of UA-TRIPODS is to produce long-term and deep-level collaborative research among computer science, statistics, and mathematics, to build effective partnerships with domain sciences, local industry and business, and to outreach to the public community.
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University of California–Berkeley
The UC Berkeley FODA (Foundations of Data Analysis) Institute will focus on deepening the theoretical foundations of data science, from basic education to cutting-edge research, and translating those foundational developments to data science practice in the diverse range of domains that generate data.
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University of California–Santa Cruz
The UC–Santa Cruz TRIPODS effort brings together researchers from mathematics, statistics, and computer science to develop a unified theory of data science applied to uncertain and heterogeneous graph and network data. We collaborate closely with the D3 Data Science Research Center and Data Science Santa Cruz.
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University of Washington
The UW Tripods Institute on Algorithmic Foundations of Data Science (ADSI) focuses on theoretical foundations and algorithms for data science. At their core, each of the disciplines of computer science, mathematics, and statistics has rich theories of complexity and robustness, which have influenced the design of the available tools used in real world computational problems. ADSI seeks new algorithms and design principles that unify ideas and provide a common language for addressing contemporary data science challenges.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
The Institute for Foundations of Data Science at UW-Madison is doing research in the fundamentals of data science by working collaboratively across traditional domain boundaries of mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
Cohort II Institutes
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Duke University
More info coming soon.
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Iowa State University
The D4 (Dependable Data Driven Discovery) Institute at Iowa State University is focused on advancing the theoretical foundations of data science by fostering foundational research to enable understanding of the risks to the dependability of data-science lifecycles, to formalize the rigorous mathematical basis of the measures of dependability for data science lifecycles, and to identify mechanisms to create dependable data-science lifecycles.
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Johns Hopkins University
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Northwestern University
The Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning (IDEAL) is a multi-discipline (computer science, statistics, economics, electrical engineering, and operations research) and multi-institution (Northwestern University, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, and University of Chicago) collaborative institute that focuses on key aspects of the theoretical foundations of data science. The institute will support the study of foundational problems related to machine learning, high-dimensional data analysis and optimization in both strategic and non-strategic environments. The primary activity of the institute will be thematically focused quarters which will coordinate graduate course work with workshops and external visitors.
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
DATA-INSPIRE is the Institute in the nation’s TRIPODS network engaged in fundamental transdisciplinary data science research, education & workforce development related to the operation of intelligent machines and their interaction with people.
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Texas A&M University
The Texas A&M Research Institute for Foundations of Interdisciplinary Data Science (FIDS) will bring together researchers from six disciplinary areas, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Industrial & Systems Engineering, and Operation Management to conduct research on the foundations of data science motivated by problems arising in bioinformatics, the energy arena, power systems, and transportation systems. This Institute will be well positioned to develop rigorous theories, novel methodologies, and efficient computational techniques to solve data challenges in many other application domains.
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Tufts University
The Tufts T-TRIPODS Institute connects an interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, computer scientists, statisticians and electrical engineers advancing the foundations of data science with domain experts in four broad applications areas. The four areas are biological and biomedical data; education and cognitive science; smart cities, development and design; and computational arts and humanities (including language and music).
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University of California, Davis
UCD4IDS is composed of 35 researchers (four PIs and 31 senior participants) coming from four departments (Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mathematics, and Statistics) and will cross interdepartmental barriers and promote interdisciplinary research collaborations among faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students, particularly focusing on: 1) Fundamentals of machine learning directed toward biological and medical applications; 2) Optimization theory and algorithms for machine learning; and 3) High-dimensional data analysis on graphs and networks.
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University of Illinois at Chicago
This collaborative research institute combines aspects of mathematics, statistics, computer science, and electrical engineering to study the foundations of data science. The research focus of the institute is centered around the topics of: representation and structure of data, machine learning and complexity, and robustness and privacy.
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The mission of Illinois Institute for Data Science and Dynamical Systems (iDS^2) is to develop the theoretical and the algorithmic foundations of the synthesis of data science and dynamical systems. The institute activities will center on four interrelated themes: Data Modeling and Dynamical Systems; Sampling, Inference, and Dynamical Systems; Algorithm Design and Dynamical Systems; Decision-Making and Dynamical Systems.
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University of Massachusetts
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University of Pennsylvania
More info coming soon.
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University of Rochester & Cornell University
Motivated by today’s greatest foundational data science challenges arising in medicine, healthcare, and beyond, the Greater Data Science Cooperative’s mission is to develop a mathematical foundation that integrates trans-disciplinary perspectives and enables applications that can ultimately benefit everyone worldwide.
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University of Texas at Austin
More info coming soon.