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UC Berkeley-led researchers used mobile phone data and machine learning to quickly and accurately direct the Togolese government’s COVID-19 cash assistance to its poorest residents in a first-of-its-kind study published March 16 in Nature. This breakthrough “phone-based approach” gives policymakers another tool to quickly target humanitarian aid in a crisis or where traditional poverty data isn’t available

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.

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 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 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, 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.

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 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.

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.