Comp Sci / Stats / Math
Computational imaging and microscopy
BIDS Senior Fellow Laura Waller is again offering this project through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) for the Fall 2020 academic semester. Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 19-31, 2020.
Participants in this project are building... more
Earth Sciences
Detecting change in global biodiversity through large scale network analysis
Global ecosystems that support life are undergoing dramatic pressure and rapid, unprecedented changes. Currently, there are a variety of separate scientific models, each with separate data sources, that can model the activities of diverse parts in an ecosystem, such as soil, bacteria-root... more
Hydrological forecasting and the water/energy nexus
Clean, available water is a critical and often-overlooked resource for human activity, food production, biological diversity and all aspects of life on our planet. Drawing on data streams from a national network of research collaborators and water sensor networks, the research team is creating and... more
Moorea Biocode, Gump Station
The IDEA Consortium is an open science initiative in systems ecology, conducting the basic scientific research needed to build use-oriented simulations (avatars) of entire social-ecological systems. Islands are the most scientifically tractable places for this, and we begin with one of the best... more
Understanding physical processes and making environmental predictions using Deep Learning
BIDS Senior Fellow Lauel Larsen and ESDL Project Scientist Dino Bellugi are offering this project (4) through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) for the Fall 2020 academic semester. Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 19-31, 2020... more
Health & Life Sciences
Center for Recognition and Inspection of Cells (CRIC)
CRIC - the Center for Recognition and Inspection of Cells - uses massive databases of Pap smear images for the analysis and pre-screening of cervical cells. Our team is dedicated to research and development of software tools and organized cell image catalogues through automated cell... more
COVID-19 Response: BIDS Data Science Services and Consulting
BIDS is convening researchers and resources to address COVID-19. As the demand for data science and data analysis expertise takes on new urgency with the COVID-19 pandemic, BIDS is working with multiple units at UC Berkeley to determine how best to bring our community’s expertise to... more
Deep Learning in Medical Imaging
BIDS and the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging are excited to offer a combined educational and research opportunity for motivated undergraduate students in the medical imaging research team. Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 19-31, 2020.
Towards... more
Innovate For Health
The Innovate For Health program was initiated in June 2019 as a collaboration between BIDS at UC Berkeley, the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute (BCHSI) at UCSF, and Janssen Research & Development, LLC (part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson),... more
Physical Sciences
Anomaly Detection using Deep Learning for Fundamental Physics Discovery
BIDS Research Affiliate Ben Nachman is offering this project (#3) through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) for the Fall 2020 academic semester. Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 19-31, 2020.
This is an exciting time in fundamental... more
Learning fundamental properties of physical systems with machine learning
Using data-driven methods and statistical modeling to uncover, unguided by existing theory, the fundamental properties of observed physical systems, this team is using software and data to provide a new pathway to develop a theoretical understanding of the physical world. The data for this project... more
Social Sciences
Demo Watch: Discovering Patterns of Peace and Violence between Police and Protesters
This project is being offered through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP). For the Fall 2020 semester, this project is seeking 5 students with experience & interest in data modeling and supervised ML. Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 19-31,... more
Online Hate Index
BIDS co-invests in this project with the D-Lab, UC Berkeley’s home for data science training in the humanities and social sciences, to support the development of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) tools for the scalable detection of online hate speech.
Proactive... more
Public Editor
This project is being offered through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP). For the Fall 2020 semester, this project is seeking 6 students with experience analyzing data in Python and interest in using Amazon’s Cloud Computing tools like AWS Lambda. Eligible... more
Research Ready Government Archives
This project is being offered through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP). For the Fall 2020 semester, this project is seeking 2 students with experience in text analysis and data visualization. Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 19-31, 2020.
The... more
Using Data Science to Improve COVID-19 Response in Developing Countries
BIDS Senior Fellow Josh Blumenstock is offering this set of three data science projects through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) for the Fall 2020 academic semester. Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 19-31, 2020.
The Data-... more