What we’re about
Charlottesville Data Science is a community for data scientists, AI engineers, machine learning practitioners, and all professionals, students, researchers, and enthusiasts working with data in Charlottesville and Central Virginia. Charlottesville is a growing data and technology hub, with the University of Virginia, including the UVA School of Data Science, established companies like S&P Global, Elder Research, and GA-Intelligence, and a dynamic ecosystem of homegrown startups. Let's connect these dots to share ideas, learn from each other, and grow the local tech community.
Our members include researchers and tech professionals with decades of experience, novices who have yet to write their first line of code, and everyone in between. If you're interested in learning more about cutting-edge work happening with data science, AI, machine learning, and related technologies in Charlottesville, you're in the right place, and you'll find a welcoming, supportive community of like-minded folks.
In addition to our Meetup group, please consider joining our Substack newsletter. It's the primary place we share community announcements and event updates with our members:
https://news.cvilleds.org
Have an idea for a future Charlottesville Data Science event? Fill out our Call for Proposals form and a member of our organizing team will get back to you!
Need to get in touch with the Charlottesville Data Science organizing team? You can reach us at organizers@cvilleds.org.
Upcoming events
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Seeing in the Dark: Unlocking AI in Next-Gen Radar Applications
TELUS Digital, 1835 Broadway St, Charlottesville, VA, USPlease join Charlottesville Data Science on the evening of Thursday, January 22 for the talk Seeing in the Dark: Unlocking AI in Next-Gen Radar, featuring Charlottesville's own Dr. May Casterline of NVIDIA! May recently delivered this talk at NVIDIA's major GTC conference in Washington, DC.
We'll be gathering in person at TELUS Digital (previously known as WillowTree).
→ We're moving our events calendar to Luma! We'll continue cross-posting our events here on Meetup for the foreseeable future, but we'll use Luma for planning and all event-related communications. Please head over there to RSVP, and consider subscribing to our Luma calendar! ←
About the talk
Radar has long enabled us to "see" what the human eye cannot—through darkness, fog, and across great distances. In areas like remote sensing and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), it reveals the invisible, powering applications from environmental monitoring to autonomous systems. Yet radar development has traditionally been split between two worlds: the rigor of digital signal processing (DSP) and the adaptability of AI.
This talk introduces NVIDIA NVRadar, a GPU-native software framework that unites DSP and AI into a single, accessible workflow. By combining simulation, testing, model training, and real-time deployment, it opens the door for both engineers and AI practitioners to create smarter, more responsive radar systems. Attendees will see how next-generation tools are transforming radar into an intelligent platform for "seeing in the dark."
→ RSVP on Luma! ←10 attendees
Past events
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