Thank you to our industry and community Affiliate Members who champion D2K Lab's mission to solve real-world challenges through applied data science!
As our Affiliate Members, you don't just support experiential learning—you drive it. By bringing your authentic data challenges to our interdisciplinary teams, you create a powerful collaboration where Rice's academic excellence meets your practical needs. Our diverse partners span from Fortune 500 companies to community organizations, all accessing cutting-edge methodologies applied by top-tier student teams under expert faculty guidance.
Together, we're proving that the most meaningful education happens when students work on problems that matter, creating solutions that work, and generating outcomes that last.
Thank you for partnering with us to bridge academic excellence and real-world impact.
External Partners
Centers & Institutes
- The Ken Kennedy Institute
- Kinder Institute for Urban Research
- Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK)
- Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Lilie)