Ph.D. Student News

Joshua Blumenstock
Joshua Blumenstock Wins Braunstein Prize for Best Student Research Paper
Blumenstock’s research measures how person-to-person financial transfers via mobile phone affect the risk and income volatility of the agriculturally…
Daniela Rosner
Daniela Rosner Presents at Design & STS Workshop
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Five Ph.D. Students to Present at 4S Conference
Ph.D. students Megan Finn, Elisa Oreglia, Stuart Geiger, Christo Sims, and Bob Bell present their research on technology circulation in China,…
School of Information doctoral student Stuart Geiger
Stuart Geiger describes how Artificial Intelligence helps create Wikipedia
Automated programs called bots have been working behind the scenes on Wikipedia since the online public encyclopedia was born. I School doctoral…
Elizabeth Goodman
Elizabeth Goodman Discusses Community-Based Design of Urban Green Spaces
Goodman is delivering a keynote address in this week’s IDSA International Conference in New Orleans. The 2011 conference, sponsored by the Industrial…
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I School Kicks Off the Year by Welcoming New Students
The four new doctoral students and 40 new MIMS students come from countries such as China, Germany, India, Korea, and Taiwan and companies like Frog…
Josh Blumenstock
New Grant Supports Josh Blumenstock's Research on "Mobile Money" and the 2008 Rwandan Earthquake
Blumenstock is analyzing a database of every interpersonal monetary transfer over Rwanda's primary telecom network from 2005-2009, including over 1…
Stuart Geiger explains why Wikipedia is losing contributors, on public radio's Marketplace Tech Report
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I Schoolers Present at Pervasive Computing Conference
Ph.D. student Daniela Rosner is one of the organizers of this week’s Pervasive Computing conference, which also features a demonstration of a 2010 I…
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Tangible User Interfaces Project Exhibition (Video)
Video from the Tangible User Interface exhibition on May 2 & 4, 2011. The "Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces" course focuses on…

News

Executive Fellows in Applied Technology Policy Bring Expertise to UC Berkeley and Bay Area Policymakers
UC Berkeley Master’s Students Build Arcade Game to Spark Social Interaction in Communities
Award-Winning Master’s Project Makes Navigating Flood Conditions Easier
Data Science Master’s Students Build Tool To Help Visually Impaired People Navigate the Streets Safely
Berkeley Cybersecurity Master’s Alums Secure Scannable QR Codes

Press coverage

Executive Fellow Merici Vinton Appears in Documentary About America, Democracy, and Power
Hany Farid Takes a Look at Viral Evin Prison Blast Video, Says It’s Likely an AI Fake
AI-Generated Videos Are Fueling Falsehoods About Iran-Israel Conflict, Says Hany Farid
Hany Farid Speaks to NPR About Deepfakes During the Iran-Israel Conflict
Hany Farid Explains How Tech-Fueled Misinformation Is Distorting Iran-Israel Fighting

Alumni News

MIMS Grad’s AgTech Project Earns $20K to Fund Big Idea
MIMS ’25 Alum Yvette Vargas Speaks on Her Experience with the Cybersecurity Clinic and Human Rights Center
At 2025 Commencement, Speakers Call for Collective Action and Embrace Ambiguity
MSCA Fellowship Brings Berkeley Researcher to TU Dublin for Pioneering AI Ethics Project
UC Berkeley Honors Alum Elaine Sedenberg with 2025 Mark Bingham Award