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 2021 academic semester.
Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 18-30, 2021.
Project Description
We are building... more
Earth Sciences
California Ecosystem Dynamics
For this project, BIDS-Accenture Global Environmental Change Research Fellow R.J. Cody Markelz focuses on the intersection between invasive species, climate change, and wildfire in California ecosystems. Using his background in functional genomics and physiological ecology, Markelz applies these... more
Moorea Biocode Project, Gump Station
The Moorea Biocode Project built the first comprehensive inventory of all non-microbial life in a complex tropical ecosystem. Supported by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Moorea Biocode Project sent researchers climbing up jagged peaks, trekking through lush forests... more
Sampling Nature: A Network to Enhance the Natural History Value Chain for Sustainability Science
BIDS Research Affiliate Neil Davies is co-PI for a new NSF grant (NSF 2129268), starting in 2021, entitled Sampling Nature: A Network to Enhance the Natural History Value Chain for Sustainability Science. Through a series of thematic workshops and regular virtual events, Sampling Nature... more
Understanding physical processes and making environmental predictions using LSTM Neural Networks
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 2021 academic semester.
Eligible undergraduates may apply online August... 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
Deep Learning in Medical Imaging
BIDS Health and Life Sciences Lead Maryam Vareth is offering this project (#1) through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) for the Fall 2021 academic semester.
Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 18-30, 2021.
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Developing a dashboard for primary care clinicians to support situational awareness
Drs. Maryam Vareth and Akram Bayat are offering this project (#4) through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) for the Fall 2021 academic semester.
Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 18-30, 2021.
Project Description
Situational awareness for... more
United in Health / Unidos en Salud
BIDS Faculty Affiliate Maya Petersen is part of this collaboration of healthcare providers, infectious disease experts, community mobilizers, and people who are helping vulnerable populations through COVID-19.
COVID-19 disproportionately effects communities of color across the nation.... more
Humanities
Sumerian Networks JupyterBook
The goal of the Sumerian Network project has been to build reproducible models of socio-economic networks from the Ur III archives, and to further refine these models to more accurately reflect the actors and entities active in these unprovenanced archives over the c. 80 year period in the 21st... more
Physical Sciences
Deep Learning Methods for High Energy Physics
BIDS Research Affiliate Benjamin Nachman is offering this project through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) for the Fall 2021 academic semester.
Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 18-30, 2021.
Project Description:
This is an exciting time in... more
Social Sciences
Demo Watch Government Archives
BIDS Director Saul Perlmutter and BIDS Alumni Nick Adams co-lead this project (#4), which is being offered through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) for the Fall 2021 semester.
Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 18-30, 2021.
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EPIC Lab: Effective Programming, Interaction, and Computation with Data
A group of UC Berkeley researchers – including BIDS Faculty Affiliates Sarah Chasins and Joseph Hellerstein (Berkeley EECS), Erin Kerrison (Berkeley School of Social Welfare), and Senior Research Data Scientist Stéfan van der Walt – have received a 3-year, $2 million... more
Housing Precarity Risk Model (HPRM)
BIDS staff member Tim Thomas and a team from the Urban Displacement Project (UDP) have just released the Housing Precarity Risk Model (HPRM), an interactive mapping tool to help understand the extent of eviction and displacement risk across 53 US metro areas.
The HPRM... more
Public Editor: The Citizen Science Solution to Media Misinformation
BIDS Director Saul Perlmutter and BIDS Alumni Nick Adams co-lead this project (#4), which is being offered through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) for the Fall 2021 semester.
Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 18-30, 2021.
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Using Data Science to Improve COVID-19 Response in Developing Countries
BIDS Senior Fellow Josh Blumenstock is offering these four data science projects through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) for the Fall 2021 academic semester.
Eligible undergraduates may apply online August 18-30, 2021.
The Data-... more