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HAWAIʻI DATA SCIENCE INSTITUTE

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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SCIPE Cyberinfrastructure Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship 2026-2027
This is a funded opportunity for graduate students currently enrolled at the University of Hawaiʻi to collaborate with and assist the Information Technology Services Research Cyberinfrastructure team in administering and facilitating adoption and use of advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) methods and resources like “Koa”,a high performance computing (HPC) system at UH, and other national resources as […]
UH Hilo to lead $1.2M NASA grant to advance coastal resilience and student workforce development across Hawaiʻi
The project, led by marine scientists John Burns (UH Hilo) with co-principal investigator Haunani Kane (UH Mānoa), will expand hands-on research and workforce development opportunities for students across the 10-campus UH System. By Susan Enright/UH Hilo Stories. The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo has been awarded a new three-year, $1.2 million NASA-funded research grant to advance […]
New report confirms 2025 among Hawaiʻi’s driest, warmest on record
In 2025, Hawaiʻi experienced its second–driest year in more than a century, alongside persistently above average temperatures throughout the year—a stark reality detailed in the inaugural Hawaiʻi Annual Climate Report 2025. Published by the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program, this first-of-its-kind report uses plain language, along with easy-to-interpret maps and figures, to summarize statewide rainfall, temperature, and drought conditions over […]
Visualizing Hawaiʻi’s energy future: $1.8M award supports UH energy planning tools
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is expanding its role in shaping the state’s energy and resilience future through a new $1.8-million federal investment supporting advanced visualization and planning tools developed by the UH Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA), in partnership with the Hawaiʻi State Energy Office (HSEO). The funding supports the continued development of the Hawaiʻi Advanced Visualization Energy Nexus (HAVEN) […]

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 […]
Docker Introduction
Workshop Description This workshop focuses on Docker, a type of Virtual Machine, for the purpose of running, sharing, and maintaining a project. Attendees will get to learn about all the available resources and software that Docker has to offer, finding out their functionality and how they can use them for a project. Attendees will be […]
AI-Powered Image Analysis for Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB) Detection
Workshop Description This workshop focuses on the full workflow of training a YOLOv8 deep learning model for detecting Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles and building a simple Flask web application for running model inference. Attendees will learn how to prepare data, train and evaluate an object detection model, and deploy the model in a lightweight web interface. […]
Mapping Plantation Area as an Indicator of Forest Degradation using Remote Sensing and AI/ML
Workshop Description This workshop focuses on the use of Google Earth Engine (GEE), a cloud-based platform for planetary-scale satellite remote sensing and geospatial analysis. Participants will learn how to use GEE to search for and select satellite imagery, perform data pre-processing, and conduct land cover analysis using machine learning (ML) techniques. During the workshop, attendees […]
Data-Driven Decision Making: Reinforcement Learning, Optimal Control, and Mathematical Modeling
Workshop Description This workshop will focus on optimal control, reinforcement learning: frameworks for modeling and solving problems which require decisions to be made over time to land at a desired goal. Attendees can expect to think about how to model decision making problems and solve them computationally. Prerequisites There are no specific prerequisites for this […]
Reasoning for Summarization in the Era of Large Language Models
Workshop Description This workshop focuses on understanding how different reasoning strategies influence the way large language models generate summaries. Attendees can expect to explore a wide range of reasoning approaches, from step-by-step prompting and question-answering reasoning to hierarchical document organization and reflective refinement. We will review how each of them affects summary quality and factual […]
Agentic AI Fundamentals in Python
Workshop Description This session is a hands-on introduction to emerging agentic artificial intelligence—AI systems capable of autonomous decision-making, tool use, planning, and dynamic interaction with their environment. Prerequisites Familiarity with Python Learning Objectives Attendees will learn about Python-based AI agents, how they are built, foundational concepts and best practices for safe and reliable agent behavior. […]
AI for weather and climate
Workshop Description This workshop will focus on understanding how AI can assist us in weather forecasting and climate-related tasks. We will explore current approaches and operational use of state-of-the-art AI models. Attendees will learn how to build highly specialized networks which are ideal for a single task, and then transition into a more general approach […]
Extracting Paleoweather from Paleoclimate through Deep Learning
Abstract: Projected changes in atmospheric blocking and associated extreme weather events are marked by significant uncertainties due to climate model biases, the complex nature of the phenomenon, and its strong natural variability. Paleoclimate proxy records, suggesting shifts in blocking activity, extend observational records and may help reduce these uncertainties. However, extracting synoptic-scale signals from low-temporal-resolution […]
Data Science Modeling in Practice From Scikit-learn to Bayesian Inference
Workshop Description This workshop will cover Data science modeling comparing frequentist and bayesian methods. Attendees can expect to evaluate datasets using scikit-learn and bayesian models. Prerequisites Familiarity with Python and Jupyter notebooks Learning Objectives This workshop aims to help attendees have a basic understanding of how to compare two different modeling types. Tools Used Python […]
Jetstream 2
Workshop Description This workshop focuses on introducing researchers and educators, who may have had little to no experience with national compute resources, to the NSF ACCESS program by using Jetstream2, a user-friendly cloud environment where users can create and manage virtual machines. Attendees will learn how to use Jetstream2 via the Exosphere user interface, learn […]
🌐 FABRIC KNIT12 2026 🏝️
Join us for KNIT12, the next FABRIC Community Workshop, happening April 14–17, 2026, in beautiful Hawaiʻi! This four-day event is the premier opportunity to immerse yourself in the FABRIC ecosystem, connect with leading researchers, and contribute to the next generation of programmable cyberinfrastructure. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, KNIT12 offers engaging, […]
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 […]