The Data Science Lab has been dedicated to fundamental research in data science and complex intelligent systems over a decade, mainly motivated by
- Data science thinking including scientific cognitive paradigms and thinking patterns, creative design thinking and mechanisms, analytics and learning architectures, frameworks and design patterns;
- Significant real-world complexities, challenges and intelligences in open complex data, behavior and systems, identified in different domains and areas, in particular, public sector, business, finance, online and living societies, core industries, and socio-economic domains for X-AI and Trans-AI/DS;
- Fundamental theoretical gaps and innovation opportunities identified in both existing theoretical systems of statistics, data/intelligence sciences and computing, and to address new and significant theoretical and applied gaps, challenges and problems.
The team has been working on both general and specific issues related to artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics, including
- Data science and intelligent science, covering many mainstream research areas in artificial intelligence, machine learning, knowledge discovery, document understanding, information retrieval, recommendation, and complex systems; and initiating and leading new research areas;
- X-complexities and X-intelligences, involving data complexity/intelligence, behavior complexity/intelligence, domain complexity/intelligence, organizational complexity/intelligence, social complexity/intelligence, economic complexity/intelligence, network complexity/intelligence, human complexity/intelligence, and their meta-synthesis;
- Complex data, such as understanding non-IID data, multi-source and cross-domain data, high-dimensional data, ill-structured data, extremely imbalanced and sparse data, noisy and redundant data, networking data, and outlying data; and
- Complex behaviors, including modeling, analysis, prediction, intervention, and active management of individual and group behaviors of humans, living systems and other systems.