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

A convolutional neural network (CNN) based ensemble model for exoplanet detection
Analyzing some elements of technological singularity using regression methods
Score-Based Classifiers for Welfare-Aware Machine Learning, International Conference on Machine Learning
Shaping Our Tools: Contestability as a Means to Promote Responsible Algorithmic Decision Making in the Professions
Exploring Neural Net Augmentation to BERT for Question Answering on SQUAD 2.0

Contextual CNNs to enhance BERT

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Securing Your Data From Breaches Will Help Us Improve Healthcare

When you go to a new healthcare clinic in the United States, doctors and nurses pull up your patient record based on your name and birthdate.  Sometimes it’s not your chart they pull up.  This is not only a healthcare problem; it’s a data science problem.

Migration and Social Networks: New Insights from Novel Data
This Thing Called Fairness: Disciplinary Confusion Realizing a Value in Technology
Information-intensive innovation: the changing role of the private firm in the research ecosystem through the study of biosensed data
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Sensing is Believing: What People Think Biosensors Can Reveal About Thoughts and Feelings

Data Science news

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Ph.D. Student Emma Lurie Recognized for Outstanding Mentorship

Ph.D. student Emma Lurie is the recipient of a 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award from the UC Berkeley Graduate Division and Graduate Assembly.

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Data for Good Recipient Empowers Health Professionals Working With Infectious Diseases

MIDS student Allison Fox has been awarded the Data For Good Fellowship for her work to improve health outcomes in disadvantaged countries. 

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Ph.D. Alum Doris Lee Wants to Democratize Data Science Tools

Her start-up, Ponder, is leading the way with a $7M round of seed financing.

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Forbes Interviews Ph.D. Alum Doris Lee on New Company Ponder
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Mobile Phone Data and Machine Learning Helped Togo Government Provide Assistance

Ph.D. student Emily Aiken and Professor Joshua Blumenstock used mobile phone data and machine learning to quickly and accurately direct the Togolese government’s COVID-19 cash assistance to its poorest residents in a first-of-its-kind study published March 16 in Nature.

Emily Aiken, doctoral student at the UC Berkeley School of Information
How AI Helped Deliver Cash Aid to Many of the Poorest People in Togo

Governments and humanitarian groups can use machine learning algorithms and mobile phone data to get aid to those who need it most during a humanitarian crisis, we found in newly published research.

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Nature Podcast: How AI Helped the Government of Togo Distribute Financial Aid.

On the Nature Podcast, Professor Blumenstock discusses his research using machine learning to help deliver aid to Togo’s poorest citizens. 

Niloufar Salehi
I School Researchers Are Using ML and AI to Explore Improvements in Medical Translation
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VentureBeat Covers the Launch of UC Berkeley Founded Data Science Startup Ponder
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MIMS Student Is Passionate About Making Data Literacy Accessible