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Building a community to support faculty teaching computational and data science
Our Mission
Our Mission
The Computational and Data Science Exchange (CDS-Exchange) is empowering small and under-resourced institutions to offer undergraduate CDS curriculum, minors, and certificates with low investment. We are committed to building a community of educators to advance CDS education and ensuring that students across the country have access to the skills they need to succeed in the workforce.
February 20
Engaging Students in Data Science and High-Performance Computing: Twenty-five undergraduate students participated in the week-long Advanced Computing Student Collaborative, co-located with SC25 held in St. Louis, MO. During the ACSC experience, students learned to use the TACC Analytics Portal (TAP) to analyze and visualize large public data to confirm or debunk a research hypothesis. Research projects varied from uncovering patterns of cognitive function and vulnerability in human-AI interaction, to training and testing a supervised machine learning model to investigate how momentum and injuries in major league baseball impact athlete success. A panel of students presented their data science projects that leveraged high-performance computing.
March 20
Classroom Applications of Fuzzy Oligo Primer Scanner (FOPS): A GPU-Accelerated Pipeline for High-Throughput Screening of Degenerate Oligonucleotide Primers and Probes: Dr. Feseha Abebe-Akele, Assistant Professor at Elizabeth City State, designed a new tool for optimal degenerate oligonucleotide primers that efficiently target conserved regions across large, diverse sequence datasets. In this webinar, Dr. Abebe-Akele provided an overview of FOPS, a novel, GPU-accelerated pipeline built on the PyTorch deep learning framework and how this tool could be used in teaching.
April 17
Developing a Data Visualization and Communication Course through the CDS-Exchange Program was presented by Suzan Anwar, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Computer Science Department Chair at Philander Smith University. Dr. Anwar shared the development of a Data Visualization and Communication course proposal that ahw designed through her participation in the CDS-Exchange program last year. She discussed the steps involved in developing the course, how the program supported the process, and how the course benefits both her institution and students.
Buidling Bridges Webinar Series will return fall 2026 semester. Have a great summer!
All sessions available on our YouTube channel.
2026 Symposium and Workshops
April 11 - Morgan State University Regional Workshop
April 22 - 25 - Annual Symposium, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia
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