{"id":19235,"date":"2023-12-06T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=19235"},"modified":"2023-12-12T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:12:53","slug":"transformational-investment-in-data-science-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2023\/12\/transformational-investment-in-data-science-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformational Investment in Data Science and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/WhitingFinal.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19261 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/WhitingFinal.jpeg\" alt=\"An image of a hand holding a lasso filled with numbers.\" width=\"1428\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/WhitingFinal.jpeg 1428w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/WhitingFinal-300x161.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/WhitingFinal-1024x549.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/WhitingFinal-768x412.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1428px) 100vw, 1428px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>In August, Johns Hopkins announced a major investment in data science and the exploration of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The heart of this endeavor will be a Whiting School of Engineering\u2013based interdisciplinary <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/Datascience-AI\/\">data science and AI<\/a> institute that will significantly strengthen the university\u2019s capabilities to harness emerging applications, opportunities, and challenges presented by the explosion of available data and the rapid rise of accessible AI. The initiative also will transform the Whiting School, effectively doubling the size of the school\u2019s faculty over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>The institute is dedicated to the application, understanding, collection, and risks of data and the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems across a range of critical and emerging fields, from neuroscience and precision medicine to climate resilience and sustainability, public sector innovation, and the social sciences and humanities. Its activities will support research activities across the institution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cData and artificial intelligence are shaping new horizons of academic research and critical inquiry with profound implications for fields and disciplines across nearly every facet of Johns Hopkins,\u201d said Johns Hopkins University <a href=\"https:\/\/president.jhu.edu\/biography\/\">President Ronald J. Daniels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to adding 80 new affiliated faculty appointments in the Whiting School, along with 30 new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors with substantial cross-disciplinary expertise, the effort also will include a state-of-the-art facility on the Homewood campus that will be custom-built to leverage a significant investment in cutting-edge computational resources, advanced technologies, and technical expertise that will serve the entire university community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not hyperbole to say that data and AI to help us make informed use of that information have vast potential to revolutionize critical areas of discovery and will increasingly shape nearly every aspect of the world we live in,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/about\/office-of-the-dean\/\">Ed Schlesinger<\/a>, the Whiting School\u2019s Benjamin T. Rome Dean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, Johns Hopkins announced a major investment in data science and the exploration of artificial intelligence.bThe heart of this endeavor will be a Whiting School of Engineering\u2013based interdisciplinary data science and translation institute that will significantly strengthen the university\u2019s capabilities to harness emerging applications, opportunities, and challenges presented by the explosion of available data and the rapid rise of accessible AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":19265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-wse","issue-winter-2024"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Transformational Investment in Data Science and AI - JHU Engineering Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Johns Hopkins University spearheads a transformative investment in data science and AI, establishing a pioneering institute at the Whiting School of Engineering. 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