Data Science

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Morgan Ames

Assistant 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

Daniel Aranki

Assistant Professor of Practice

Predictive medicine; artificial intelligence; machine learning; tele-health; information disclosure; privacy; security.

David Bamman

Associate Professor

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

Coye Cheshire

Professor

Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange

John Chuang

Professor

Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Aditya Parameswaran

Associate Professor (I School and Computer Science)

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

Recent Publications

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Securing Your Data From Breaches Will Help Us Improve Healthcare

Aug 2, 2020

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

May 9, 2020

This Thing Called Fairness: Disciplinary Confusion Realizing a Value in Technology

Nov 14, 2019

Information-intensive innovation: the changing role of the private firm in the research ecosystem through the study of biosensed data

Aug 16, 2019

Sensing is Believing: What People Think Biosensors Can Reveal About Thoughts and Feelings

Jun 13, 2019

The strength of long-range ties in population-scale social networks

Dec 31, 2018

Don't forget people in the use of big data for development

Dec 30, 2018

Machine Learning for the Developing World using Mobile Communication Metadata

Dec 10, 2018

The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction

Feb 13, 2018

This essay explores the changing significance of gender in fiction, asking especially whether its prominence in characterization has varied from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. The authors found that while gender roles were becoming more flexible, the space actually allotted to (real, and fictional) women on the shelves of libraries was contracting sharply.

Imputing KCs with Representations of Problem Content and Context

May 8, 2017

Data Science news

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

Ashkan Soltani on Apple and Google Teaming Up Against the Coronavirus

Apr 10, 2020

Aditya Parameswaran Builds App to Track the Impact of Distancing Measures

May 1, 2020

Joshua Blumenstock Addresses Housing Insecurity in the Wake of COVID-19