UC Berkeley to start graduate student research hub on AI policy
UC Berkeley will launch this spring an interdisciplinary initiative to research and propose solutions for governing artificial intelligence, two prominent research institutions at UC Berkeley announced today.
STEM has a diversity problem. CDSS wants to help solve it.
Women, Black and Hispanic individuals are currently and have historically been underrepresented amongst science, technology, engineering and math college degree recipients and technology companies' workforces and leadership. Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society is working to help solve that.
Marti Hearst is School of Information’s new head of school
Marti Hearst is UC Berkeley School of Information’s new head of school, Jennifer Chayes, the school’s dean, recently announced.
Meet Ashish Sahni, the new executive director for BIDS
Meet Ashish Sahni, the new executive director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). Sahni joined the UC Berkeley research and training organization – and Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) affiliate – this month from UC San Francisco (UCSF), where he served as chief of staff for the Department of Surgery.
Deb Nolan returns to CDSS as Associate Dean for Faculty
Deb Nolan, emeritus professor of statistics at UC Berkeley and former associate dean for undergraduate education at the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, has returned to CDSS as Associate Dean for Faculty for the spring 2022 semester.
CDSS top communicator, EECS and CCB professors honored by AAAS as 2021 fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elected the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society’s (CDSS) top communicator and three affiliate faculty members to be AAAS fellows, one of the scientific community’s highest honors, the group announced today.
Nine CDSS Faculty Among Latest Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Cohort
Nine faculty members from UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) affiliates will conduct groundbreaking biomedical research as part of the second Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators cohort that was recently announced.
Sociology Students Try Research in Data Science Collaborations
Robert Fales isn't a data scientist. He only signed up for the data science-focused sociology class because he wanted to work with Professor David Harding, a leader in the social science field.
Fortune Magazine Ranks UC Berkeley Online Master's in Data Science Program Second in the Country
The Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program at UC Berkeley ranked #2 among online data science master’s degree programs by Fortune magazine, released on January 19, 2022.
Berkeley Data Science Students, Journalism Faculty Building Public Database of Police Misconduct
At UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), the Data Science Discovery program and the Graduate School of Journalism are working with the California Reporting Project to help develop and automate a statewide database of police misconduct records that can be easily accessed by news organizations and the general public. The database project began in 2018 and is funded with a $1 million grant from Sony.