Center Mission
As part of Cornell’s radical collaborations, the Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society aims to unify programs and curricula in data science with an initial emphasis on questions grounded in data that are generated by human activity, including computational social science (e.g., sociology and government), the economics/computer science interface, aspects of digital agriculture in the production and management of agriculture, digital platforms supporting urban infrastructure (e.g., the sharing economy), and as a theme that is cross-cutting in many of these areas, the corresponding issues of privacy, security, and fairness; more generally, the Center enhances other programmatic areas associated with data science in an entrepreneurial and opportunistic fashion.
Director
David Shmoys, Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies
Operations Research and Information Engineering, Computer Science
David obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984, and had postdocs at MSRI & Harvard University, and a faculty position at MIT before joining the faculty at Cornell University. David was Chair of the Cornell Provost’s “Radical
Collaborations” Task Force on Data Science & was co-Chair of the Academic Planning Committee for Cornell Tech. Shmoys is a Fellow of the ACM, INFORMS, and SIAM.