On June 12, 2020, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily A. Carter and Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger M. Wakimoto shared a BruinPost about UCLA's DataX Initiative. As Special Advisors for Strategic Initiatives in Data Science to Vice Chancellor Wakimoto, Jacob G. Foster (assistant professor of sociology) and Mark L. Green (distinguished research professor of mathematics) produced an initial plan for the DataX Initiative following extensive consultation with stakeholders on campus and leaders at peer institutions. To learn more about the DataX Initiative, please visit the initiatives' webpage to view the recordings of several Town Hall meetings held by Professors Foster and Green in May 2020, as well as UCLA’s DataX Strategy: Past, Present, and Future (PDF) presentation describing the overall framework.
As part of the next phase of the DataX Initiative strategic planning process, EVC Carter and VC Wakimoto invite Schools, Divisions, Departments, Organized Research Units, Interdepartmental Programs, Institutes, Centers, and other relevant campus organizations to egage in the initiative through the preparation of white papers. They also invite the inclusion of an appendix providing further details, and are particularly interested in hearing about educational opportunities DataX units currently offer or plan to offer in the near future.
Please send white papers to UCLA.DataX.WhitePapers@conet.ucla.edu by July 10, 2020. For more details, please refer to the BruinPost.
