Events

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Learn more about the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic, a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. 

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Kyle Booten.

Large language models can make writing mind-numbingly efficient — but the point of writing with AI should be to write what we couldn’t have written alone (without generating bland, derivative “slop”).

Abigail Jacobs researches structure, governance, and inequality in sociotechnical systems and the hidden assumptions in machine learning.

Miguel Escobar Varela studies changes in Southeast Asian cultural heritage, combining fieldwork with computational methods.

Miguel Escobar Varela studies changes in Southeast Asian cultural heritage, combining fieldwork with computational methods.

David Bamman’s research focuses on natural language processing and cultural analytics, applying NLP and AI to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences. 

Naitian Zhou is a Ph.D. stu­dent whose re­search cen­ters on de­vel­op­ing com­pu­ta­tional meth­ods to un­der­stand mean­ing em­bed­ded in style.

Peter Forberg is a Ph.D. student in sociology who studies technology, political movements, governance, and ethnography. 

Noah Askin is a computational social scientist and sociologist who studies the creative process, its outcomes, and the forces that influence it.

Noah Askin is a computational social scientist and sociologist who studies the creative process, its outcomes, and the forces that influence it.

Ongoing work on benchmarking vision-language models and using them and object detection for art historical research into canonicity and national romanticism styles in Northern Europe.

Ongoing work on how satire is communicated in both text and images in the satirical journal Corsaren using image and text embeddings.

Svenja Guhr’s research uses computational methods to model suspense in American and British short fiction.

Taylor Arnold uses large-scale computational methods to analyze how television production practices and narrative strategies intersect with industry changes and cultural contexts.