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Meet Ashish Sahni, the new executive director for BIDS

BIDS Affiliates Chasins, Pollard, and Waller receive 2022 Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Awards

Sociology Students Try Research in Data Science Collaborations

Robert Fales isn't a data scientist. He only signed up for the data science-focused sociology class because he wanted to work with Professor David Harding, a leader in the social science field. But once Fales started using data science tools to analyze education inequality data, he knew he'd be using them to transition sociology from his major to his career. 

Verification Dilemmas in Law and the Promise of Zero-Knowledge Proofs

A paper written by BIDS Faculty Affiliate Rebecca Wexler and colleagues recently received an Honorable Mention from the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award as one of the top eight privacy papers in 2022. The award is for "leading privacy scholarship that is relevant to policymakers in the U.S. Congress, at U.S. federal agencies, and among international data protection authorities." 

Spring 2022 BIDS Undergraduate Internships - Apply January 11-24

Charuleka Varadharajan leads Berkeley Lab’s new program in Earth AI & Data

BIDS Research Affiliate Charuleka Varadharajan leads Berkeley Lab’s new program in Earth AI & Data. 

BIDS is hiring: Postdoctoral Scholar - Responsible AI

Berkeley Data Science Students, Journalism Faculty Building Public Database of Police Misconduct

This article is cross-posted from  Berkeley Data Science Students, Journalism Faculty Building Public Database of Police Misconduct December 20, 2021  |  Jon Bashor  |  CDSS News ___________________________

rOpenSci Announces $400K CZI Award to Empower Historically Excluded Groups as Community Leaders in Scientific Open Source Projects

We are thrilled to have been awarded new funding as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Open Science program’s education and capacity building strategy. This $400K grant will support a new project to enable more members of historically excluded groups to participate in, benefit from, and become leaders in the R, research software engineering, and open source and open science communities.

Ben Nachman receives DOE grant to automate and optimize detector design using machine learning