NSF Priorities and Opportunities for Data Science and AI

As data science and AI have continued to permeate society, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has introduced new programs in the foundations of the data sciences and its applications to scientific problems. This talk will provide an overview of some of NSF’s activities and opportunities in data science and related fields.

Dr. Alfred Hero is the John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently on leave from the University of Michigan as a Program Director in the CISE Directorate at the National Science Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He is a recipient of the Fourier Award in Signal Processing from the IEEE.