Data abounds and our ability to process it algorithmically is unprecedented. This opens up to exciting prospects for scientific and technological advance which were unimaginable only two decades ago. Data-intensive and AI-driven methods are therefore likely to shape a significant proportion of science in the decades to come. This requires us to rethink the very idea of scientific knowledge, from the way it is produced to its technological and cultural transfer to society.

During its five year span, the Reasoning with Data (ReDa) project will aim to advance the state of the art in the methodology of reasoning with data. It will do so by tackling two ambitious research objectives: the identification of criteria of logical validity for data-driven inference, and its impact on the construction of scientific evidence.

ReDa is lead by professor Hykel Hosni and is funded generously by the Italian Ministry for University and Research under the FIS1 Advanced Grant scheme G53C23000510001