Data Science

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Morgan Ames

Assistant Adjunct Professor
Alumni (MIMS 2006)

Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science

David Bamman

Assistant Professor

Natural language processing, computational social science, machine learning, digital humanities

Joshua Blumenstock

Associate Professor
Alumni (PhD 2012)

Development Economics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Econometrics, ICTD

Coye Cheshire

Professor

Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange

John Chuang

Professor

Bio-sensory computing; brainwave authentication; information economics and policy

Aditya Parameswaran

Assistant Professor (I School and Computer Science)

Data management, interactive or human-in-the-loop data analytics, information visualization, crowdsourcing, data science

Steven Weber

Professor (I School and Dept. of Political Science); Faculty Director, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

International politics, international business, and the information economy; Cybersecurity; Behavioral economics within Information Systems

Recent Publications

Indexing and Searching Tera-Scale Grid-Based Digital Libraries

Nov 15, 2006

Universal Access to Information

Oct 1, 2005

Data Science news

Ph.D. Student Doris Lee Awarded 2020 Facebook Fellowship in Systems for Machine Learning

Sep 11, 2020

Lee aims to design systems that provide automated recommendations in visual data exploration and machine learning

David Bamman Wins National Endowment for Humanities Grant

Aug 13, 2020

David Bamman’s BookNLP project will receive funding from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) to expand its scope to include German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish languages.

Berkeley Student Develops Text-Based ID Strategies to Support UN’s Cash Assistance Programs

Jul 28, 2020

MIDS student Daniel Alvarez developed text-based similarity algorithms for the UN World Food Programme to support cash-based relief delivery.

Satellite Images, Phone Data Help Guide Pandemic Aid In At-Risk Developing Countries

Jun 2, 2020

In recent weeks, Prof. Joshua Blumenstock has worked with policymakers in Togo, Nigeria, and Bangladesh to focus the power of advanced technology on pandemic relief.

Aditya Parameswaran Awarded Best Paper at SIGMOD 2020

May 21, 2020

Assistant Professor Aditya Parameswaran has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2020 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference for his joint paper: “ShapeSearch: A Flexible and Efficient System for Shape-based Exploration of Trendlines.”

Joshua Blumenstock: Machine Learning Can Help Get COVID-19 Aid To Those Who Need It Most

May 14, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis continues, hundreds of millions of citizens of low-income countries are being left without work or income. Assistant Professor Joshua Blumenstock discusses new methods to combat this.

All’s Clear for Deepfakes? Think Again.

May 11, 2020

Despite growing sentiments that deepfakes are the “dog that never barked,” Hany Farid believes the worst is yet to come.

Photo via CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Hany Farid, Joshua Blumenstock Awarded Seed Funding for COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts

May 15, 2020

Professors Hany Farid and Joshua Blumenstock have been awarded seed funding for their projects designed to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute.

Hany Farid Joins other Bay Area Researchers to Fight Coronavirus

Apr 29, 2020