The Mission of the Department of Data Science is to

  • Educate students in a field that has ushered in a once-in-a-generation revolution, comparable to the industrial revolution and the original computing revolution. In doing so, graduates are empowered to engineer salient solutions to the most urgent challenges facing industry and society today and in the future. 
  • Provide an environment for leading edge research that has a strong and rapid impact on the economy and that reestablishes New Jersey as a world leader in technological advancement.
  • Create a source of scholarship on the many technical, ethical, and privacy issues that ubiquitous data creation is constantly confronting us with.
  • Establish a center of technology knowledge and a "go-to organization" to service data creators, providers, managers, curators, and users of the state and the nation.

Vision Statement:

The data revolution has created novel challenges and unprecedented opportunities. The vision of the Department of Data Science is to create a first-class academic department that trains the next generation of students as data scientists who will solve these grand challenges and innovate through world-class research to take advantage of these opportunities.