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The Hawaiʻi Data Science Institute (HI-DSI) is a University of Hawaiʻi System-wide effort to support data science education, collaborative research and partnerships with industry.

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New AI Course Helps Demystify Growing Tool for All UH ʻOhana
Reading time: < 1 minute As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rapidly transform higher education, the University of Hawaiʻi has officially launched its Artificial Intelligence for Hawaiʻi course, a free interactive 12-chapter program designed for UH ʻohana and communities across Hawaiʻi. The first chapter of the course, which serves as a gateway for professional development and exploration, launched on March 29. Hosted on the new UH OneAI Hub website, […]
2 Trillion Gallons of Water Trigger Historic Fooding in Hawaiʻi
Reading time: 2 minutes More than 2 trillion gallons of water—enough to fill 3 million Olympic-sized swimming pools—inundated Hawaiʻi in March. The accumulated rainfall over 14 days reached as high as 3,000% of normal historical levels for this time of year, culminating in a destructive “rain bomb” over Oʻahu. Through the University of Hawaiʻi’s Hawaiʻi Mesonet and the Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal, researchers captured the scale of […]
Historic 14-day Rainfall Across Hawaiʻi
Two weeks, two Kona storms, and a record-breaking amount of water. Since March 10, back-to-back storms have officially made this the 3rd wettest March since 1920. Preliminary estimates show that an average of 20.4 inches of rain fell across the major islands during this two-week period. That implies over 2.3 trillion gallons of water poured […]
UH Cancer Center, Google Cloud Host AI Research Workshop
Reading time: 2 minutes The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, in partnership with Google Cloud, will host a landmark full-day workshop on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, titled, “Accelerating Research in the Age of AI: A Synergistic Workshop with Google.” The event will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Sullivan Conference Center, UH Cancer Center, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu. Designed […]

EVENTS

HIDSI Spring 2026 Student Research Showcase
Join the Hawaiʻi Data Science Institute’s Student Research Showcase featuring student presentations on research projects in artificial intelligence, data analysis, data visualization and more. Light refreshments will be available.
SCIPE Spring 2026 CI-REO Student Research Showcase
Celebrate the achievements of participating students from the SCIPE CI-REO mentored research opportunity! This spring, undergraduate students engaged in a semester-long research experience, collaborating with mentors from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, and the University of Guam. Their projects leveraged cyberinfrastructure tools to tackle a diverse range of […]
HPC 101 – Onboarding
Description This workshop is an introduction to using high-performance computing (HPC) systems, specifically the Koa HPC. We can’t cover every case or give an exhaustive course on parallel programming in just two hours of teaching time. Instead, this workshop is intended to give students a good introduction and overview of the tools available and how […]