The Department of Data Science and Big Data Analytics at the Renmin University of China was officially launched in 2020. It was originated from the initiative of the five-university joint master program on big data analytics in 2014 and the undergraduate program in data science and big data technology in 2017. Our mission is to educate future data scientists. We dedicate to providing a solid foundation in data science for students with specialized domain knowledge such as business analytics, financial technology, health informatics, engineering systems, mathematics, and computer science. We embrace the opportunities and challenges to develop a world-class center of data science with lasting regional and global impact on society.

Our research interests include but are not limited to, big data mining and statistical machine learning, text mining, consumer behavior big data analysis, deep learning, distributed computing methods, spatial-temporal big data analysis, and large-scale knowledge graph. Our research papers are published on many leading international computer and statistical journals. We are conducting many research projects for government and companies.

We offer the following courses to our students: probability theory, mathematical statistics, statistical computing, machine learning, data science practice, and big data distributed computing.