Collaborate on practical solutions to complex challenges.
CDI works with organizations, researchers, educators, innovators, and mission-driven teams to develop applied projects, reproducible workflows, learning systems, and decision-ready outputs.
Bring the challenge. Combine expertise. Build something people can use.
Domain Experts
Connect expertise across CDI’s six domains.
CDI welcomes collaboration with researchers, practitioners, educators, and technical specialists whose complementary expertise can support interdisciplinary work and practical outcomes.
Collaboration Areas
Collaborate across CDI’s six domains.
Collaboration can begin with an idea, dataset, research question, training need, existing workflow, or implementation challenge. CDI helps shape it into clearly scoped, practical, and reusable work.
Data Science
Develop reproducible analyses, data workflows, visualizations, reports, and decision-support outputs for research, organizational, and real-world applications.
Artificial Intelligence
Explore and develop responsible AI and machine-learning applications shaped around human needs, clear objectives, credible evidence, appropriate oversight, and practical implementation.
Omics & Bioinformatics
Support applied projects involving RNA-Seq, genomics, GWAS, microbiome, proteomics, single-cell data, and reproducible biological interpretation.
Clinical & Medical Data
Strengthen projects involving clinical datasets, medical evidence, health research, reproducible analysis, and the translation of findings into decision-ready outputs.
Career Development
Co-create practical training, mentorship systems, guided projects, portfolio-building resources, and professional development initiatives for learners and practitioners.
Research & Innovation
Turn research questions and emerging ideas into structured projects, reproducible workflows, prototypes, knowledge systems, and practical implementation pathways.
Collaboration Process
Move from a shared challenge to practical outputs.
Each collaboration is shaped around a clearly defined challenge, shared responsibilities, a realistic scope, and outputs that can be reviewed, used, and extended.
Understand
Clarify the challenge, intended users, available resources, constraints, and desired outcomes.
Define
Agree on the scope, roles, methods, deliverables, timeline, and key decision points.
Develop
Create and review the analysis, workflow, learning resource, prototype, or other agreed output.
Deliver
Finalize the outputs, supporting documentation, knowledge transfer, and recommended next steps.
Good Fit
When collaboration with CDI makes sense.
Strong collaborations begin with a meaningful challenge, shared responsibility, and a commitment to producing useful, credible, and reusable work.
Ways to Collaborate
Choose a starting point that fits the challenge.
Collaboration may begin with an exploratory conversation, a defined project, or a longer-term partnership. The appropriate format depends on the challenge, people, scope, timeline, and intended outcome.
Exploratory
Clarify the opportunity, examine the challenge, and determine whether there is a practical basis for working together.
Project-Based
Work toward defined deliverables such as an analysis, workflow, report, prototype, guide, training resource, or implementation plan.
Strategic Partnership
Develop a longer-term initiative around research, education, workforce development, innovation, or public-interest impact.
Have a challenge we could work on together?
Tell CDI what you are trying to investigate, build, improve, or teach. We can explore the challenge, determine whether there is a good fit, and identify a practical starting point.