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About NSF BRIDGE

Democratizing data science and AI

An NSF-funded center that provides scalable, on-demand computing so research communities can share datasets, workflows, and ML models.

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Our team

A multi-institution group of principal investigators and senior personnel spanning data systems, AI, security, genomics, medicine, and social science.

Chen Li

Chen Li

Principal Investigator

UC Irvine

Donald Bren School of ICS

Ardalan Amiri Sani

Ardalan Amiri Sani

Co-Principal Investigator

UC Irvine

Donald Bren School of ICS

Rui Chen

Rui Chen

Co-Principal Investigator

UC Irvine

School of Medicine

Kristin Turney

Kristin Turney

Co-Principal Investigator

UC Irvine

School of Social Sciences

Wei Wang

Wei Wang

Co-Principal Investigator

UCLA

Computer Science, Samueli School of Engineering

Stephen Parker

Stephen Parker

Senior Personnel

U Michigan

Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics

Naomi Sugie

Naomi Sugie

Senior Personnel

UCLA

College of Social Sciences

Xiangmin Xu

Xiangmin Xu

Senior Personnel

UC Irvine

School of Medicine

Partner institutions

A multi-institution team

UC Irvine

Lead institution

UCLA

Partner institution

University of Michigan

Partner institution

Our mission

Connecting diverse research communities into one shared infrastructure

NSF BRIDGE builds on Apache Texera (Incubating), an open-source, web-based workflow system for data science, real-time collaboration, workflow sharing, and elastic cloud computing.

The Center provides not just software, but also services such as training, documentation, support, and scalable, on-demand computing. It coordinates these systems across communities so domain scientists can harness state-of-the-art data science and AI, even with limited programming or local computing.

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Support

NSF-funded center

Partners

UCI, UCLA, U Michigan

Platform

Apache Texera (Incubating)

NSF BRIDGE

National Center to Democratize Multi-disciplinary Data Science and AI, providing scalable, on-demand computing for research labs and communities.

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