Jeannette Wing will become the Avanessians Director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science.

With five productive and impactful years coming to a conclusion, the Data Science Institute, launched at Columbia Engineering, is transitioning to become a University-wide institute under the leadership of Jeannette Wing.

Columbia University researchers have developed a personalized algorithm that predicts the impact of particular foods on an individual’s blood sugar levels. The first-of-its-kind tool may make meal planning simpler for type 2 diabetes patients.

Big data’s astounding possibilities for reshaping health care, business, government, and other aspects of our lives took center stage at Columbia University’s Data Science Day, a gathering of more than 600 engineers, researchers, and industry leaders at the Data Science Institute.

Statistics and Computer Science Professor David Blei has been tailoring machine learning and topic modeling for a wide variety of research areas, including image analysis and patient monitoring.