News: Research

Team led by UChicago CS PhD student Steven Song evaluated the effectiveness of novel small-scale AI models in identifying non-melanoma skin cancers.

Three MS in Applied Data Science team members led a roundtable at the 2025 UPCEA Conference regarding the ethical dimensions of data science in higher education.

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor Weixin Tang recognized for excellence in chemical biology research and undergraduate education at the University of Chicago.

Ziwan Xu, an alumna of the Department of Chemistry, is spotlighted in Nature for her innovative research in radiosensitizers and sustained-release drug delivery.

In a multi-year project led by engineers and scientists at Fermilab’s Illinois Accelerator Research Center, Fermilab worked with Euclid Techlabs to test a new, slightly conductive ceramic for use in a key accelerator component called a radio frequency window.
 

Recent advancements at the ATLAS user facility are enhancing operations and efficiency to help unlock new insights into the universe’s fundamental forces.
 

Bill Fefferman develops a new use for a quantum algorithm once thought to be useless to protect against quantum computers. 

Two previous students of Professor Peter May, Weinan Lin, PhD'21, and Zhouli Xu, PhD'17, worked on a new proof representing the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions.

Argonne National Laboratory swapped out a key component in its liquid metal test loop for a new class of reactors. 
 

The Levin Lab solves longstanding selectivity problem in the synthesis of complex pyrazoles, which has troubled medicinal chemists.

Statistics and DSI professor David Biron teams up with the Weizmann Lab and other researchers to understand prosody, the music of speech. 

Argonne Laboratory helps develop Quantinuum’s 56-bit trapped-ion computer, which has succeeded in demonstrating randomness in quantum circuits to establish secure, private connections.

The Data Science Institute and Google are partnering to launch new research to address security, privacy, and digital safety within artificial intelligence. 

The Tech-for-Good Careers event highlighted ways UChicago faculty, staff, and students are leveraging data science for social good.
 

New study explores how workers are using large language models and what it means for science organizations.