Associate Professor Robert Bond was appointed as one of the co-directors of the Computation Social Science Practice at the Translational Data Analytics Institute at Ohio State. 

TDAI is a community committed to inclusive, interdisciplinary, big data-enabled research and creative expression for the greater good. The institute contains over 220 faculty affiliates, representing over 50 disciplines of research. Bond serves as one of 14 co-directors, with faculty hired from across nine colleges.