Institute for Data, Research and Innovation Science (IDRIS)

Welcome to IDRIS!

The Institute for Data, Research, and Innovation Science (IDRIS) is an organizing hub for applied, social, ethical, and responsible scholarship and practice in data science and technology at Rutgers University-Newark.

Launched in September 2024, IDRIS’s mission is to use data and technology to interrogate and address wicked problems facing urban communities. In its effort to achieve this aim, the institute situates data science, artificial intelligence (AI), and other technologies in an ethical, community-engaged framework that meaningfully accounts for human and urban complexities.

Our Focal Themes:

Data Work and Science
Technology
Ethics
Responsible and Applied
Anchor-Driven Urban-Solutions

Our Central Wicked Problems:

Health
Environmental
Data Quality
Data Literacy
Responsible AI and Other Technologies