TRIPODS: UA-TRIPODS - Building Theoretical Foundations for Data Sciences

UA-TRIPODS旨在在美国西南部建立一个变革性且高度互动的数据科学中心，以整合数据科学理论基础的研究、教育和外展。 通过博士后研究员针对高中生的研究，教育和推广，UA-TRIPODS将帮助建立和鼓励多元化的人口追求定量和计算数据科学的职业生涯。 该项目的智力优势包括确定理论基础进展势在必行的基本领域，开发数据科学的数学和算法原理，以及从大规模网络理论和优化到自然语言处理和贝叶斯方法的统计建模等主题的基础研究。 这是通过与基础学科（理论计算机科学，数学和统计学）的专家长期合作来实现的，并受到领域科学和工业问题的激励。 新的数学、统计和算法原理将加强理论数据科学的基础，同时推动新兴应用的发现和创新。 UA-TRIPODS还将与从事天文学、环境科学、基因组学、月球和行星科学、医学、交通和光学科学等以数据为中心的企业的当地行业建立新的合作伙伴关系。研究工作组将在数据科学的理论基础的许多不同领域探索基本问题。 通过确保每个小组包括来自基础学科每个领域的研究人员，同时将这些小组与科学和行业合作伙伴配对，UA-TRIPODS将确保这些项目将受益于真正的跨学科合作。 合作的进展将通过专门的计划评估指标来衡量。 每年的研讨会，研讨会和头脑风暴/愿景活动将使UA-TRIPODS为未来的数据科学培训和研究奠定基础。 此外，该项目将支持在亚利桑那大学开发一个新的统计和数据科学本科学位，扩大在线课程，并促进研究生教育的合作（包括基础学科和领域科学）。 学生将有机会体验第一手数据分析和跨学科研究和教育。 UA-TRIPODS还将与西南地区的合作学院和大学开展研究所活动，然后利用这些联系来支持新颖有效的大学间和大学内研究和教育计划。 将加强与加州南部、亚利桑那州、新墨西哥州和得克萨斯州西部的西班牙裔服务机构和部落学院的伙伴关系。

UA-TRIPODS aims to build a transformative and highly interactive data science hub in the Southwestern United States for the integration of research, education, and outreach in the theoretical foundations of data science. Through research, education, and outreach targeted to high school students through postdoctoral fellows, UA-TRIPODS will help establish and encourage a diverse population to pursue careers in quantitative and computational data science. The intellectual merits of the project include identifying fundamental areas where progress in the theoretical foundations is imperative, developing mathematical and algorithmic principles of data science, and basic research on topics ranging from the theory of large scale networks and optimization to statistical modeling for natural language processing and Bayesian methods. This is accomplished by extending long-standing collaborations with experts in the foundational disciplines - theoretical computer science, mathematics, and statistics - and motivated by problems in the domain sciences and industry. New mathematical, statistical, and algorithmic principles will strengthen the foundations of theoretical data science, while driving discovery and innovation for emerging applications. UA-TRIPODS will also cultivate new partnerships with local industries engaged in data-centric enterprises in astronomy, environmental science, genomics, lunar and planetary sciences, medicine, transportation, and optical sciences.Research Working Groups will pursue fundamental questions in a number of different areas in the theoretical foundations of data science. By ensuring each group includes researchers from each area of the foundational disciplines, while also pairing these groups with science and industry partners, UA-TRIPODS will ensure that these projects will benefit from a truly transdisciplinary collaboration. Progress in collaboration will be measured by specialized program evaluation metrics. Yearly workshops, seminars, and brainstorming/visioning activities will enable UA-TRIPODS to lay the foundation for the future of training and research in data science. In addition, this project will support the development of a new undergraduate degree in Statistics and Data Science at the University of Arizona, expanded online offerings, and facilitation of cooperation in graduate education (both among the foundational disciplines and with the domain sciences). Students will be provided with opportunities to experience first-hand data analysis and interdisciplinary research and education. UA-TRIPODS will also engage partnering colleges and universities across the Southwest in the institute activities and then utilize these connections to support novel and effective inter-university and intra-university research and educational programs. Partnerships with Hispanic Serving Institutions and Tribal Colleges in southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas will be strengthened.