In celebration of International Open Access Week 2024, we are delighted to welcome Xiao-Li Meng, Founding Editor-in-Chief, and Rebecca McLeod, Managing Director, of the Harvard Data Science Review to give a special presentation about HDSR and its mission as an open access platform.

All are welcome to attend this online event. Registration is required. 

About Harvard Data Science Review

As an open access platform of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) features foundational thinking, research milestones, educational innovations, and major applications, with a primary emphasis on reproducibility, replicability, and readability.

HDSR aims to publish content that helps define and shape data science as a scientifically rigorous and globally impactful multidisciplinary field based on the principled and purposed production, processing, parsing, and analysis of data. By uniting the strengths of a premier research journal, a cutting-edge educational publication, and a popular magazine, HDSR provides a crossroads at which fundamental data science research and education intersect directly with societally-important applications from industry, governments, NGOs, and others. By disseminating inspiring, informative, and intriguing articles and media materials, HDSR aspires to be a global forum on everything data science and data science for everyone.

About the Editors

Xiao-Li Meng, Founding Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Data Science Review and the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, is well known for his depth and breadth in research, his innovation and passion in pedagogy, his vision and effectiveness in administration, as well as for his engaging and entertaining style as a speaker and writer. Meng was named the best statistician under the age of 40 by Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) in 2001, and he is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his more than 150 publications in at least a dozen theoretical and methodological areas, as well as in areas of pedagogy and professional development. In 2020, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has delivered more than 400 research presentations and public speeches on these topics, and he is the author of “The XL-Files," a thought-provoking and entertaining column in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Bulletin. 

Read more about Xiao-Li Meng

Rebecca McLeod, Managing Director of Harvard Data Science Review, oversees all business, publishing and program operations of HDSR including business development, production and editorial activities, and marketing. Rebecca comes to HDSR with decades of experience in scholarly publishing, having worked in marketing, editorial development, operations, and relationship management roles for both nonprofit and commercial organizations. A substantial part of her career was spent at MIT Press where she worked in various positions supporting the Journals program including 8 years as the Journals Director where she was responsible for overseeing all functions of the MIT Press Journals division including the publication, marketing and sales of 35+ scholarly journals. 

Rebecca is very active in the scholarly communications industry having chaired and served on multiple committees for the Association of University Presses, the Professional and Scholarly Division of the American Publishers’ Association, and the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). Currently, she is the President Elect of SSP and a member of the Board of Directors for the National Information Standards Organization (NISO).

Read more about Rebecca McLeod

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Library Scholarly Communication Discussion Group and Open Scholarship and Research Data Services

Accessibility: This online event will feature live, auto-captions enabled by default. Please contact the event organizer with any inquiries about access needs or accommodations.