UC Berkeley School of Information

The School of Information’s May 2025 Commencement presented an opportunity to honor faculty and student achievements.

Dean Eric Meyer presented awards for outstanding capstone projects from the Master of Information Management and Systems program, the Master of Information and Data Science program, and the Master of Information and Cybersecurity program.

Students in the MIMS, MIDS, and MICS programs voted for their most outstanding instructors and gave awards to their classmates.

Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) alums Kevin Ngoc Hoang, Xinyun (Roxy) Rong, Maggie Corry, and Roshni Suresh Tajnekar are the winners of the Sarukkai Social Impact Award, for their project, Carbon AIQ. The MIDS team focuses on carbon offsetting, a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by investing in projects that lower or remove CO2 and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Carbon offset markets, or trading systems where organizations buy and sell carbon credits to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions, are divided into government-run compliance and open-access voluntary markets. They addressed voluntary markets’ credibility and accessibility issues by compiling and tracking data bases of current carbon projects and the lifecycle of carbon credits, making it easier for environmentalists to access the information they need to fight against climate change.