Data Science

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Associate Professor of Practice
Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
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David Bamman

Associate Professor
Natural language processing, computational social science, machine learning, digital humanities
Coye Cheshire

Coye Cheshire

Professor
Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange
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John Chuang

Professor
Climate informatics; biosensory computing; incentive-centered design

Recent Publications

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Simulating Strategic Interactions with AI Agents

LLM agents enable rapid, low-cost strategy experiments that prototype human studies and generate hypotheses about strategic behavior.

Privacy, Prediction, and Allocation

Conference publication: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.20

Full version available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15596

 

Preserving Target Distributions With Differentially Private Count Mechanisms
Federal Data Field Guide

The Federal Data Field Guide is a free resource that explains how data collection works across the federal government. It provides context and practical use cases that enable researchers and journalists to engage with the government data ecosystem fully. 

Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
Monitoring Nutrition Security: Perspectives from a Workshop on Nutrition Security Measurement
Modeling Language as Social and Cultural Data
Using Natural Language Processing to Describe the Use of an Online Community for Abortion During 2022: Dynamic Topic Modeling Analysis of Reddit Posts
Behavioral Innovations to Access Abortion Post-Dobbs: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Reddit’s r/abortion Community in 2022
Probing the limits of mobile phone metadata for poverty prediction and impact evaluation

Data Science news

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MIDS Alum Alan Jian Shares Insights at UC Berkeley Panel About Using Data To Serve Millions

Alan Jian offers one example of how data science education can prepare students for real-world impact and how those skills can strengthen public systems across California.

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New Federal Data Field Guide Helps Americans Navigate the Rich Diversity of Our Federal Data Ecosystem

Denice Ross, who served as the nation’s second U.S. Chief Data Scientist, and her former White House colleague Christopher Marcum have launched the Federal Data Field Guide.

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Fall 2025 MICS and MIDS Capstone Award Winners

Outstanding MICS and MIDS capstone projects.

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Joshua Blumenstock on Using AI To End Extreme Poverty

According to a new report by a group of anti-poverty researchers that uses AI tools to achieve unusually granular data of the picture on the ground, the price tag for completely ending extreme poverty would be just $318 billion per year.

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David Bamman Receives Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute Award

Bamman’s project bridges large-scale computational analysis in AI with humanistic scholarship in film and television.

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Berkeley Master’s Alums Build App to Guide Visually Impaired Users Through Grocery Stores

Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) alums Abhishek Shetty, Ana Melody Masis, Vijaykumar Krithivasan, Landon (Austin) Yurica, and Mehmet Inonu are the winners of the Sarukkai Social Impact Award, for their project, Perceive AI.

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Summer 2025 MICS and MIDS Capstone Award Winners

Outstanding MICS and MIDS capstone projects.

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Recent Ph.D. Alum Emma Lurie Mentors Award-Winning Undergraduate Team
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Data Science Master’s Project Fosters Sustainability by Organizing Carbon Offset Data

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.

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Joshua Blumenstock’s Togo Research Featured in Nature Article on Using AI to Beat Poverty