After being selected for the NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution Ideas Lab earlier this year, Prof. Debra F. Laefer, spent the past week at the intensive Ideas Lab workshop, working on groundbreaking ideas to advance data science in the US. Ideas Labs are founded on the idea that, if you solicit ideas, you will tend to get very similar ideas solicitation after solicitation, but if you solicit brilliant minds and give them an opportunity to germinate new ideas together in a supportive, low-distraction, innovation environment, great things can happen. This Ideas Lab session, hosted by SIAM, was focussed on Harnessing the Data Revolution and included researchers from institutions across the US. After this very intense week, Prof. Laefer is excited to pursue further work inspired by the ideas explored in the lab along with a whole new team of data science collaborators.
Sensing the world, designing the future.