Transportation
The Next Generation of Mobility
Establish comprehensive and integrated transportation data ecosystem; harness the power of Big Data analytics; develop on-demand, multi-modal transportation systems.
Learning Analytics
Improving Education Through Data
Create a new generation of learning analytics tools; understand personal attributes behind successful learning and effective teaching by leveraging massive data.
Health Science
Advancing the Spectrum of Biomedical Research
Enable research use of massive and diverse health data; develop data science methodology and its application to basic biomedical science, translational research, and clinical intervention.
Social Science
Leading the Evolution of Social Research
Build versatile data system accessible to social scientists with diverse expertise and research questions; develop tools to integrate traditional and new data for social and political research.
Music
Connecting Data Science and Music
Apply data science methodology to study the structure and performance of music; enable data- and technology-based music creation; develop tools for audience engagement.
Research News
See a complete listing of publications from MIDAS-affiliated faculty via Google Scholar.
A paper co-authored by University of Michigan School of Information research assistant professor Christopher Brooks received the Best Full Research Paper Award at the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK)…
Title HDDA: DataSifter: statistical obfuscation of electronic health records and other sensitive datasets Publication Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation Date 11 Nov. 2018 DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00949655.2018.1545228 Authors Simeone Marino, Nina…
Prof. Laura Balzano received an NSF CAREER award to support research that aims to improve the use of machine learning in big data problems involving elaborate physical, biological, and social phenomena. The…
