UVA School of Data Science Presents Datapalooza 2025

UVA School of Data Science Presents Datapalooza 2025

By UVA School of Data Science

Explore AI, data, and truth at Datapalooza 2025—UVA’s fall showcase of data science in action across fields and for the public good.

Date and time

Location

1919 Ivy Rd

1919 Ivy Road Charlottesville, VA 22903

Agenda

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Professional Headshots

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Graduate School Resume Reviews

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Data Science Building Tours

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Registration and Casual Networking Lunch

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

UVA-LMI Data-to-Impact Challenge Kick-off

Analyze how America’s growing network of data centers impacts energy, water, land, and communities. Join UVA and LMI to learn about the Data-to-Impact Challenge, "Innovate for Good, Empower with Data...

1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Welcome by Lori McMahon, VP of Research

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Breakout Session: Data and Design

Design is more than aesthetics — it’s a way of thinking, prototyping, and solving problems with empathy and precision. This session explores how data and design inform one another across digital huma...

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Breakout Session: Data and National Security

Data is a powerful asset in defending and advancing national interests, yet it also introduces complex risks. This session brings together experts in intelligence, defense, and policy to examine how ...

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Breakout Session: Data and the Physical World

Data connects the physical and digital worlds—from sensors on bridges to models that predict climate, materials, and motion. This session looks at how image-based monitoring and digital twins inform ...

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Break

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Breakout Session: Data and Health

Health data can transform care, diagnostics, and policy — while raising urgent questions about equity, consent, and bias. This session explores how multimodal data such as EHRs, imaging, wearables, a...

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Breakout Session: Data and Algorithms

Algorithms are the engines that turn data into insight — but their assumptions, geometries, and uncertainties shape what we treat as “truth.” This session explores principled algorithm design across ...

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Breakout Session: Data and Culture

Culture shapes how data is created, interpreted, and used — and data, in turn, reshapes culture itself. This session explores how data storytelling, digital humanities, and social analytics reveal th...

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Break

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Keynote: Digital Authoritarianism

In a world where artificial intelligence shapes what we see, share, and believe, truth itself is under strain. Danielle Citron, one of the nation’s foremost voices on privacy, technology, and civil r...

4:30 PM - 4:40 PM

Closing Remarks

4:40 PM - 5:30 PM

Postdoc Poster Session

4:40 PM - 5:30 PM

Networking Reception

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Highlights

  • 4 hours
  • In person

Highlights

  • 4 hours
  • In person

About this event

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The UVA School of Data Science presents Datapalooza 2025: Truth and Accountability in the Age of AI, our signature fall event bringing together faculty, students, alumni, and partners to showcase data science in action—across disciplines and for the public good. This year’s afternoon programming features innovative research at intersections like Data and Design, Data and the Physical World, Data and Health, Data and Algorithms, Data and Culture, and Data and National Security.

This year's keynote speaker is Danielle Citron, Distinguished Professor in Law at the University of Virginia, and an expert on information privacy, free expression, and civil rights law.

  • Lunch is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • Only events in the Capital One Hub will be livestreamed.
  • If you need accommodations, please let us know during registration.
  • Free parking is available in the JPJ West Lot with shuttle service on the Gold Line.

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Nov 14 · 1:00 PM EST