Daniel Mietchen, researcher at the School of Data Science, and Jundong Li, researcher with a joint appointment in the School of Engineering and School of Data Science received a grant from the University of Virginia’s Global Infectious Diseases Institute to quantify the impact of data sharing on COVID-19.

Varshini Sriram has always had a passion and a mind for understanding science and engineering at a deeper level. Throughout her time at UVA's School of Data Science, she developed an excitement for natural language processing (NLP). Now, she uses her NLP skills – in addition to the other tools she learned at UVA – in her role as a data scientist at U.S. Bank.

This is the question Eric Field, Professor in the School of Data Science and in the School of Architecture at UVA, asks his students throughout the semester in his course called Data Visualization. Almost all our MSDS students take his course before graduation. His prompt for this semester’s final project was only the word, “viral.”

Since COVID-19 hit, Brendan Abraham has been working to create a tool that will help to inform policymakers during this pandemic. 

In response to COVID-19, iTHRIV, a collaboration of public and private institutions, created the Health Status Registry for any Virginia resident, healthy or sick, with the goal of having a more complete picture of the virus in Virginia.

Aditi Rajagopal is a dual degree student in the Darden School of Business and the School of Data Science at UVA, passionate about the intersection of data science and business. She will graduate with both her MBA and MSDS in May of 2021.

On April 30 at 3pm, Dean of the School of Data Science Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Phil Bourne, got on the air to address the COVID-19 crisis. 

Myra Khan Blanchard is the Assistant Director of Career Advising at the School of Data Science, and throughout her career, Blanchard has discovered her passion for facilitating connections and guiding students.

2020 Charlottesville WiDS was held virtually this year and brought together hundreds of women across the country to discuss leadership, opportunities, women in tech, challenges, and more.

Sam Garofalo graduated from the School of Data Science in 2017 and now works at the NBA, where she uses data science to analyze the competition structure and change the future of the game.