The Institute promotes and disseminates advances in research at subject in Data Science, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. It aims to provide a high quality forum for researchers, practitioners and policy makers at local, national and international levels.

The research, since the foundation of the Institute, has a transversalapproach , where experts from different areas collaborate, as well as professionals from the fields of Data Science, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, as well as statistics and computer science.