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May 10, 2019

I School alumnus Thejo Kote, MIMS ’11, launched spend management startup Airbase after raising $7 million of Series A venture capital funding.

May 2, 2019

Polymorph Labs, an advertising startup founded by I School alumni Satish Polisetti and Dhawal Mujumdar, announced that Walmart Media Group has…

Apr 23, 2019

Marti Hearst’s research finds that grouping words visually that have related meaning improves people’s ability to detect underlying categories.

Apr 16, 2019

Prof Blumenstock received the Faculty Award for Research in the Public Interest for his research at the intersection of machine learning and…

Mar 28, 2019

Prof Steve Weber and Gabriel Nicholas (MIMS ’18) co-author an article for GlobalAsia explaining how digital technology has…

Mar 18, 2019

Joshua Blumenstock cautions that new digital methods of approaching issues of poverty must be used as a complement to more traditional…

Mar 11, 2019

Berkeley and 20 other universities are forming a new consortium, the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), to support the…

Mar 6, 2019

MIDS student Christina Papadimitriou received the Spring Paul Fasana LGBTQ Studies Fellowship for research using data science for LGBTQ rights.

Feb 20, 2019

MIDS student Sudha Subramanian received the Spring 2019 Jack Larson Data for Good Fellowship for her research using data science to understand…

Feb 7, 2019

This March, the I School will participate in a week of events intended to democratize data science and technology at Berkeley and beyond.

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