UBC Data Science Institute

Our DSSG fellows returned from 2-week visit to University of Hong Kong (HKU), thanks to their generous support! This is the first time collaborating with a university outside North America in our 9-year history of DSSG and we look forward to welcoming HKU team to UBC in August!🤩 @science.ubc.ca

Delivering AI’s promise of better health care   - AI & Health Network Jump-started by a $22.5 million gift, UBC’s new AI and Health Network is deploying powerful artificial intelligence tools to drive health system innovation and improve patient care.

Led by Dr. Raymond Ng and Dr. Anita Palepu, Head of UBC Medicine, UBC’s new AI and Health Network unites top minds and partners to transform care across B.C. and Canada.
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Huge congrats to Data Science for Social Good team from 2019 presenting at Int'l Workshop on Data-Driven Smart Cities workshop held during the IEEE Int'l Conference on Data Engineering in Hong Kong last week! 👏More info: tinyurl.com/5f5aeje4 & tinyurl.com/3yeutume 🥳

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The deadline for Data Science Catalyst Program proposal submission has been extended to Sunday, June 1 at 11pm. Please reach out to us if you have any questions!

We are excited to share that 2025 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program officially kicked off this week! ✨We are incredibly grateful to @science.ubc.ca, UBC Career Center, and CIFAR for their generous support for making this program possible 🤩 dsi.ubc.ca/data-science...

📣 Join us May 15 @UBC for “AI & Digital Health in Rural Communities” – an interactive event exploring strategies for developing and integrating AI and digital health tools into rural and indigenous health system. Register now. Limited space! #RuralHealth #AIinHealth
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We participated in UBC Sports Day last Friday - what a beautiful, sunny day filled with fun and engaging activities! A huge thank you to UBC HR, UBC Rec, UBC Kinesiology, UBC Wellness Ctr, and all the volunteers for making it happen! 🤩

📣Attention FoS PIs: we are now accepting proposals for Round 3 of the Data Science Catalyst Program! Please submit by Sunday, May 18 at 11pm. Further details and info about selected projects from Rounds 1 & 2 are available here 👉 dsi.ubc.ca/data-science... @science.ubc.ca

Developing AI responsibly to help patients get treatment sooner - Beyond UBC researchers are using AI to identify crucial data in the health-care system for the benefit of both patients and staff

"There is no question that AI offers a lot of opportunities. There's also no question that AI can be used irresponsibly. But the technology is there and our job as leaders in this area is to put it to good use." - Dr. Raymond Ng, DSI Director

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📣Great opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience, build their professional networks, and apply their academic knowledge to real-world problems: Join the Migration Data Challenge 2025! ✨ See below for further info 👇 @science.ubc.ca @cs.ubc.ca @stat.ubc.ca

🥳Congratulations to Women in Data Science Club for the award! 👏

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Big kudos to all the organizers, speakers and participants who made the Women in AI panel discussion last weekend a huge success! Thank you to our Data Scientist Sarah Abdelazim for sharing her experiences, and great seeing familiar faces including Kim Tran, who participated in DSSG last summer! ✨

📣 Join Women in Data Science @UBC, UBC Women in Computer Science, and UBC AI Club for an inspiring Women in AI event on Saturday, March 15! To register 👉https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_egMizHZv608slz8
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Using a Longformer Large Language Model for Segmenting Unstructured Cancer Pathology Reports | JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics PURPOSEMany Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods achieve greater performance when the input text is preprocessed to remove extraneous or unnecessary text. A technique known as text segmentation c...

🥳 Congratulations to our former co-op student, Damien Fung, on the publication of his first academic paper! Along with the team at DSI, he shows how Longformer Large Language Model can be used for cancer pathology report segmentation 🎉 @science.ubc.ca

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Saving time and saving lives with artificial intelligence - give UBC For Dr. Raymond Ng, AI and donor support can revolutionize patient care.

UBC DSI and collaborators at Provincial Health Services Authority are using AI to "expedite the process, ensuring critical cases are fast-tracked to treatment, saving time and potentially lives" for cancer patients. Learn more about how philanthropy can scale up research give.ubc.ca/impact-stori...

📣UBC Medicine Datathon brings together students and professionals from diverse health disciplines and data-related fields to tackle healthcare challenges through data-driven approaches. We invite you to participate! To register and for more info: datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca/events/ubc-m...

✨We are excited to announce that the project proposals from Drs. Kaitlyn Gaynor (@zoology.ubc.ca) and Liang Song ( @ubcbotany.bsky.social) have been selected for the Data Science Catalyst Program! 🎉🥳 For more info 👉 dsi.ubc.ca/data-science... @science.ubc.ca

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