Established in July 2018, Department of Data Science (DS), formerly School of Data Science (SDSC), has contributed significantly to the CityU’s mission in the pursuit of excellence. DS has become distinctive by serving as a campus-wide educational resource, fostering collaboration, producing leading research, advocating pathways for data science, scaling the best talents in the field and further solidifying CityU’s global footprint in a region of increasing importance to the data science world.