CIDR Information

CIDR (Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science Research) was founded in July 2018 by Dr. Yuval Benjamini (Department of Statistics) and Dr. Dafna Shahaf (School of Computer Science and Engineering) as the cornerstone of the Hebrew University’s university-wide initiative to create Israel’s leading data science training and research programs. CIDR’s members are established experts with a broad range of expertise, ranging from core areas such as machine learning and statistics to application-driven areas such as computational biology and digital humanities. The center is interdisciplinary, collaborating with multiple departments at HUJI including Computer science, Statistics, Brain Sciences, Medicine, Agriculture, Communications and Journalism, Law, Business, Political science, and more. CIDR actively seeks to impact new areas and foster collaboration with researchers (within HUJI or outside) whose primary research revolves around data science.