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UC Berkeley launches AI training program to address criminal justice system inequalities with support from $3M NSF grant

August 24, 2023

UC Berkeley researchers launched a pioneering interdisciplinary training program this week that will blend criminal justice and computer science in ways that experts say will help reduce long-standing, systemic inequities in the criminal legal system.

The program, called...Read more about UC Berkeley launches AI training program to address criminal justice system inequalities with support from

M NSF grant

Berkeley Institute for Data Science appoints Fernando Pérez as the next Faculty Director

August 16, 2023

BERKELEY, Calif., August 16, 2023 - Associate Professor Fernando Pérez from the Statistics Department at UC Berkeley will be the next Faculty Director for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). The...Read more about Berkeley Institute for Data Science appoints Fernando Pérez as the next Faculty Director

June 2023 Newsletter

June 6, 2023

Read our June newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about June 2023 Newsletter

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BIDS is a home for data-intensive research, open-source software, & data science training programs. Our programs and initiatives are designed to facilitate collaboration across an increasingly diverse and active data science community of domain experts from the life, social, and physical sciences, as well as methodological experts from computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics. Since its launch in 2013, BIDS has cultivated an environment of open inquiry and discovery for data-intensive research.