Mission
IDRE’s mission is to lead a campus-wide effort on innovative research and education on the use and development of advanced cyberinfrastructure methods, tools, and services. This involves bringing together researchers working in domain, computational, data, and information sciences, and digital scholarship and creative activities.
For details, refer to its strategic plan and charter and bylaws.
Vision
IDRE’s vision is to sustain UCLA as a world leader in the innovative use, application, and development of computational, data, and information sciences, and digital technologies that drive cultural and societal change.
Focus Areas
IDRE’s focus areas include challenges and opportunities associated with four areas critical to advancing innovative research and scholarship: Computational Science, Data Science, Information Science, and Digital Scholarship and Creative Activities.
Executive Sponsors
IDRE is jointly sponsored by two offices at UCLA:
- The Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) supports and enhances the university mission of education, research, and service through the development and execution of innovative and sustainable technology practices, programs, services, infrastructure, policies, and partnerships.
- The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) seeks to support research activity at UCLA. The office is divided into three subdivisions: Office of Research Administration functions, Vice Chancellor for Research functions, and Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research functions.