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UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) welcomed seven new faculty in statistics, electrical engineering and computational precision health to its community this fall. The college also appointed two new chairs, its first endowed chairs since the UC Board of Regents approved its launch in May 2023. Together, these appointments continued the growth of CDSS as the first new college at Berkeley...

Professor Omar M. Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, was awarded the 2024 Balzan Prize by the International Balzan Prize Foundation for his groundbreaking contributions to the discovery and development of nanoporous framework materials, and advancing their applications in carbon capture, hydrogen storage, and water harvesting from desert air. Yaghi, who is also co-director and chief scientist...

Two executive directors have recently joined UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) to lead pioneering centers that actualize AI solutions for healthcare and climate change. Sarah Jones, executive director for the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet and Ted Robertson, executive director for the Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation, were drawn to the university’s interdisciplinary excellence and real-world impact...

Shrinidhi Gopal, a senior majoring in economics and data science, is the incoming president for UC Berkeley's undergraduate student government. She is one of 202 students who made these subjects the second most common combination of majors declared on campus this spring.Gopal spoke with Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society about how she discovered these fields and the power of combining data science...

Hellina Hailu Nigatu always loved math and physics – really any field that let her calculate things. Then she found computer science. By the time she'd started her PhD at UC Berkeley, she saw how computing skills could address a range of issues from healthcare to women's rights. She learned in classes about concepts in Natural Language Processing and large language models developed in English...

Dozens of California public educators walked into a sunlight streaked, first floor-room at the edge of UC Berkeley in late June. Hugging each other and snagging coffee or water, they navigated blue and gold star-shaped balloons to settle at tables facing a projector screen. These scholars are part of a state effort to make California the nation’s leader in excellent, equitable and accessible undergraduate data...

UC Berkeley’s newest college launched an undergraduate student advising office this month. The office in the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) began serving undergraduate students majoring or minoring in statistics, data science or computer science. These students can receive support selecting courses, engaging in research and more. “We are excited to officially open the Undergraduate Advising Office and share the new things...

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi received a top sustainability prize on June 18 for his pioneering discoveries unlocking essential tools to combat the climate crisis. Yaghi won the Tang Prize for Sustainable Development in recognition of his groundbreaking efforts founding and advancing the field of reticular chemistry. He has proven that the ultra porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks can help address...

Campus leaders, faculty and community members of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) celebrated the “topping out” of the new Gateway building on June 7. Construction workers placed the final steel beam onto the building, recognition of a major milestone for the future home of Berkeley’s first new college in 50 years. This state-of-the-art building, which will be located on...

California Governor Gavin Newsom and leaders representing technology, government, academia, labor, civic organizations and more convened at the Joint California Summit on Generative AI to collaborate on and examine this transformative technology. More than 100 changemakers came together at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco to discuss new ways generative artificial intelligence could better serve the public. “California is the globe’s artificial intelligence leader, and...