BIDS is a central hub of data-intensive research, open source software, and data science training programs at UC Berkeley.
- Research: BIDS supports faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate/undergraduate research in a variety of fields in the life, health, social, and physical sciences, the humanities, and in computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics.
- Software: BIDS contributes to a number of open source, open science, and open data resource communities in support of academic research.
- Training: BIDS training programs reflect our commitment to augment degree programs and provide valuable, accessible resources that expand collaboration opportunities for the campus community.
Leadership
Directors
- Saul Perlmutter: Faculty Director, Berkeley Institute for Data Science; Director, Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics; Professor, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley; 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Heather Haveman: Associate Faculty Director, Berkeley Institute for Data Science; Professor, Sociology and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
- Ashish Sahni: Executive Director, Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Faculty Council
- Joshua Blumenstock: School of Information, UC Berkeley
- Henry Brady: Goldman School of Public Policy
- Sandrine Dudoit: Biostatistics, Statistics, UC Berkeley
- Rosemary Gillespie: Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Berkeley Natural History Museums; UC Berkeley
- Marta C. Gonzalez: City and Regional Planning, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley; Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Division, LBNL
- Linda Haverty Rugg: Scandinavian, UC Berkeley
- Niek Veldhuis: Assyriology, Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
- Laura Waller: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
History
Supporters
We thank our Industry Partners for their affiliation with us, and in particular for their support of our research endeavors and workforce development.
- Accenture Applied Intelligence
- Goldman Sachs
- John Deere
- Johnson & Johnson / Janssen
- Microsoft
- Siemens
- State Street
Founding Support
We are indebted to the University of California Berkeley Library for its ongoing provision of support for the BIDS community to convene at Doe Memorial Library, where we enjoy learning together and welcoming others. We also remain grateful to our primary supporters as they have enabled BIDS to play a major role in bringing data science to the forefront of academic research and training at Berkeley.
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Academic and Laboratory Partners
BIDS appreciates the support of these academic and research partners, in particular for their investment in BIDS Data Science Fellowships.
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute
Campus Community
The network of data-intensive units at Berkeley has many nodes, and we thank the following institutes, centers, and programs for collaborating to energize the network together.
- Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITTS)
- Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
- Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS)
- Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk (CDAR)
- Data Science Education Program (DSEP)
- Data Sciences for the 21st Century (DS421)
- FODA Institute (Foundations of Data Analysis)
- Guizhou Berkeley Big Data Innovation Research Center (GBIC)
- Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)
- Social Science Data Laboratory (D-Lab)