This article talks about what I believe is the single most important question for data science to tackle in the next ten years.
Through the work of the Integrative Data Science Lab (IDSL), we are pioneering new ways to rapidly improve disease treatment and drug discovery using integrative knowledge graphs and advanced machine learning approaches to profile and predict the biological effects of potential new drugs.
The world is already facing the impacts of climate change through increased severity and frequency of natural-event caused disasters. Through our Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab, we are researching ways that data science can help scale and improve the preparation for, mitigation of, response to and recovery from disasters.
In the Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab, we are researching the design and use of technology in a way that promotes Digitial Resilience, that is private, secure, robust and reliable even in adverse or threatening environments. This brings together maker culture, data science, cybersecurity, privacy and human computer interaction research.
