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Andreas Baumann, Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies, will talk about "That's the key! – Modeling the effects of non-conformist behavior...

In his dissertation, Michael studied mathematical optimisation algorithms for machine learning, which he uses for example to classify Armenian manuscripts and breast cancer...

Yllka Velaj, Research Group Data Mining and Machine Learning, will talk about "Social network analysis: from Clustering to Link Recommendation"

As an academic philosopher, Eugenia Stamboliev explores links between technological agency and subject agency – mostly around AI and care robots – to challenge concepts such...

AIROW – Artificial Intelligence in Rowing is a cooperation project of the Research Network Data Science @ Uni Vienna and the Institute of Sports Science with the Austrian...

Using interpretable machine learning techniques, Sebastian discovers hidden stellar groups and sets out to create Atlas Galaxia Proxima, a thorough catalogue revealing the...

Join our online live session on the occasion of the open days "uniorientiert" at the University of Vienna

For the academic year 2023/24, the application for admission to the Master programmes Business Analytics and Data Science is open from 1 March to 17 April 2023

Benjamin Roth, Research Group Data Mining and Machine Learning & Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies, will talk about "Evaluation and...

Join for an afternoon of digital entrepreneurship and data science at our Data Science Day on Friday, 10 March 2023 @ Sky Lounge!

11 February marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Our research network has great women doing outstanding research in our field.

DS Talk: Tias Guns, Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven, will give a talk on Friday, 20 January 2023 @ 13:00 CET

Anastasia Ailamaki (Professor for Computer and Communication Sciences at the EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) will talk about just-in-time (JIT) systems and...

The University of Klagenfurt announces a Senor Scientist Position in cooperation with the Musil-Institute / Kärntner Literaturarchiv.

Jürgen Zanghellini, Department of Analytical Chemistry, will give a talk on Friday, 11 November 2022 @ 12:00 CET

Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry of the Medical University of Vienna, will give a talk on Friday, 18 November 2022 @ 12:00 CET

The Research Network “Data Science @ Uni Vienna” invites applications for a doctoral position in the field of Machine Learning with applications for training load management...

David W. Hogg (Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University) will talk about "Is Machine Learning Good or Bad for Science?" on 7 July 2022 @ 16:30 CEST

Oliver Hahn, Department of Mathematics and Department of Astrophysics, will give a talk within our DS Talk Series!

The Digital iLAB is a new programme of the University of Vienna coordinated by the Research Network Data Science and the DLE Research Services and Career Development. It...

Katja Bühler, VRVis Centre for Virtual Reality and Visualisation Research, will give a talk within our DS Talk Series!

The Department of Business Decisions and Analytics (working group Prof. Jan Ehmke) is offering the position of a research assistent (Praedoc level) in the FFG-funded project...

For the academic year 2022/23, the application for admission to the Master programmes Business Analytics and Data Science is open from 1 March to 2 May 2022

Opportunities for HPC/AI/HPDA users in Austria: VSC and EuroCC

Podcast about "Basic democratic rights in the area of tension"

Thilo Hofmann (Department of Environmental Geosciences, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science): Why might we need better tools to understand environmental...

Vladimir Kazeev (Department of Mathematics): Tensor approximation for discovering and exploiting structure in differential equations

Drew is starting as scientific coordinator at our research network.

Michael is starting his PhD at our research network.

Aleksandar is starting his PhD at our research network.

Guojun is starting his PhD at our research network.

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Nikolaus Forgó (Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law): Access to Data under Covid-19 Conditions in Austria: A Preliminary Legal Assessment

Christoph Dellago (Faculty of Physics): Machine learning for atomistic simulations of materials

Live Session and Open Lecture presenting the Master programmes Business Analytics, Data Science and Digital Humanities – join online and get to know the main staff!

O. Anatole von Lilienfeld (Computational Materials Physics): Quantum Machine Learning

Nils Kriege (Research Group Data Mining and Machine Learning): Learning with Structured Data by Matching and Embedding Graphs

Our DS talks continue online via Zoom – Sylvia Kritzinger (Department of Government): Exploring possibilities for dealing with survey data: data science and political science...

For the academic year 2021/22, the application for admission to the Master programmes Business Analytics and Data Science is open from 1 March to 3 May 2021.

In the FWF project "Logistics Decision Support in the Pandemic" Karl F. Dörner is researching the logistical challenges of COVID-19 tests and innovative delivery methods such...

The Corona crisis has shown that logistics chains are sometimes fragile, leading to bottlenecks. An FWF acute project at the University of Vienna is investigating how...

Interview about delivering groceries and doing data science during pandemic times in the Uni:View magazine (University of Vienna)

The research platform Data Science @ Uni Vienna is currently promoting three new master programmes. Admission in Business Analytics and Data Science for the Academic Year...

New article on the University of Vienna webpage by board member Prof. Stephanie Rinderle-Ma.

Prof. Dörner explains the influences of the COVID-19 on the supply chain in Austria.

Talk by David Dreyer Lassen, Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, at the Vienna Behavioral Economics Network on May 11th.

Prof. Martina Pippal from the department of Art History will give a talk about the advantages and risks of global digitalization in the context of Art History on Friday 24th...

From 23 - 24 November the University of Vienna, the Saint Anselm College (USA) and the University of St. Andrews (UK) are holding a conference on Data & Ethics.

The Vienna Doctoral School in Physics and the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics are organising a winter school from 10 - 20 February.

We congratulate Danijel Kivaranovic!

Alexander is starting his PhD at our research platform.

Xandro is starting his PhD at our research platform.

Sophia is starting as our new administrative assistant.

Interested in learning something new? Apply for our Data Science Summer School until July 31st 2019 and build your skills in "Deep Learning & Data Science".

We are very happy to announce a visit and lecture from Prof. Duan Li from the City University of Hong Kong. The lecture takes place on June 19th, 3.00 pm.

Historians Gudrun Gersmann and Hubertus Kohle talked about "Big Data and the French Revolution - New approach to an old topic". Watch the video here.

The Data Science Initiative (DSI) organized a data science hackathon.

The Data Science Initiative at University of Vienna is announcing their second Data Science Hackathon in cooperation with BAWAG Group. You can register now!

Data Science is currently a highly discussed topic. Michael Sedlmayer is a mathematician. He details his research on ancient manuscripts and his view on data science.

Hadley Wickham will be holding a lecture about "Data Science Challenges" on Tuesday 19.03.2019 at 4.45pm, HS 1 (Währinger Strasse 29, 1090 Wien).

We are introducing a new format of talks, that will introduce you to exciting research involving data science at the University of Vienna.

Elaine Chew had a talk with "Der Standard" in the context of our lecture series about what interdisciplinary approaches. Chew is a pianist as well as a mathematician.

Philipp Grohs will be a keynote speaker, talking about "Approximation theory, Numerical Analysis and Deep Learning" at INdAM Day 2019 in Bologna.

The video from Elaine Chew's lecture about "The (Data) Science of Time: From Music to the Heart" is online. You can rewatch it here.

Before his talk at our lecture series Andrew Gelman was interviewed by "Der Standard" about statistics, voting and rationality.

More and more often algorithms and models decide for us. Torsten Möller spoke to uni:view magazine about how to make them usable for everyone.

Prof. Thomas Reutterer, Head of Institute of Service Marketing and Tourism at WU Wien, will speak about data driven marketing.

We are happy that the CEE-YOU website from OeAD features our Data Science Summer School 2018 as success story for international cooperations on their website.

The University of Vienna just released 19 job ads in Data Science, including Digital Humanities.

The Data Science Initiative is a young and enthusiastic student group which is organizing a workshop about "Deep Learning" on November 20th and 27th.

Sebastian is starting his PhD at our research platform.

Michael is starting his PhD at our research platform.

Lena is starting her PhD at our research platform.

The research platform "Data Science @ Uni Vienna" continues its lecture series, to which we would like to cordially invite you. Andrew Gelman will give a talk titled...

The Data Science Initiative is a young and enthusiastic student group. They are organizing two workshops this semester "practical data science" and an "introduction to deep...

The Roundtable on "Data-Driven-Transformation using the example of BAWAG P.S.K.“ takes place on Wednesday, October 10th 2018, 18:30 PM at Oskar-Morgenstern Platz 1.

Our kickoff event is online, you can watch David Donohos lecture about "Data Science: The End of Theory?" online.

Our summer school participants, Christine Ning and Daniel Lang, wrote a blog post for the University of Vienna blog about their experience and what they learned.

Before his talk at our kickoff event David Donoho was interviewed by "Der Standard" about Data Science and the impact of changes in our communication behavior on society.

Interested in learning something new? Apply for our Data Science Summer School until 23. July 2018 and build your skills in "Deep Learning & Visual Data Analysis"....

You can find all the pictures from our kick off event and Dave Donohos talk about "Data Science - The End of Theory?" here.

Tara Andrews has been named co-director of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as of 15 April.

We are happy to announce that Rector Heinz W. Engl will be opening our kickoff event on June 22nd.

Hear Steffen Frey talk about "Looking into spatiotemporal data: visualization challenges, approaches, and future directions."

Astrophysicist João Alves receives a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.

Exciting times for astronomers and data scientists exploring the richest star catalogue of our Galaxy, to date.

We have openings for five enthusiastic PhD students to establish an interdisciplinary research environment.

Our new website is online.