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

Differential Privacy for Black-Box Statistical Analyses
Monkeypox Outbreak Analysis: An Extensive Study Using Machine Learning Models and Time Series Analysis
Survivability of industrial internet of things using machine learning and smart contracts
SDN and application layer DDoS attacks detection in IoT devices by attention‐based Bi‐LSTM‐CNN
A transfer learning approach for detecting offensive and hate speech on social media platforms
Time series analysis and anomaly detection for trustworthy smart homes
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Exchange and the Creation of Trust and Solidarity across Cultures
Mitigating bias in radiology machine learning: 3. Performance metrics
Mitigating bias in radiology machine learning: 2. Model development
Impacts of heuristic parameters in PSO inverse kinematics solvers

Data Science news

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Fall 2023 MICS and MIDS Capstone Award Winners

Outstanding MICS, MIDS, and 5th Year MIDS capstone projects.

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Alumni Make Breakthrough in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Detection and Classification Research

A group of UC Berkeley School of Information MIDS graduates have turned their Hal R. Varian Award-winning project into a published paper in Nature Scientific Reports. 

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University of California Researchers Win Grant to Study Misinformation Surrounding Reproductive Health on Social Media

University of California, Berkeley, School of Information professor Coye Cheshire, along with colleagues at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and UC San Francisco, recently won a $300K grant from the UC Noyce Initiative on computational precision health to study the extent of the problem, and what might be done to combat it. 

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Summer 2023 MICS and MIDS Capstone Award Winners

Outstanding MICS and MIDS capstone projects.

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Alum Nitin Kohli Wins iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding Differential Privacy Research

Postdoctoral scholar and I School alum Nitin Kohli has been awarded the iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “Leveraging Differential Privacy While Attending to Social and Political Commitments.”

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Fellowship Recipients Strive to Use Technology to Understand Climate Change

Kevin Lustig and Ando Shah have been awarded the 2022–23 Quigley/Heffernan Family Environmental Fellowship.

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Look for ‘Who’s Not at the Table’ and Other Advice From Female Data Scientists

Joyce Shen, Dean Jennifer Chayes, and others shared advice at a panel at WiDS Berkeley.

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Professor John Chuang and Ph.D. Student Ando Shah Work With OpenEarth Foundation
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Fall 2022 MICS and MIDS Capstone Award Winners

Outstanding MICS and MIDS capstone projects.

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Ph.D. Alum Doris Lee Selected For Forbes’ 30 Under 30

Doris Lee (Ph.D. ’21), who is 26, was featured on Forbes’s “30 Under 30” list for enterprise technology in 2023.