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Fernando Pérez honored by NASA with the Exceptional Public Service Award

April 29, 2024

On April 24, 2024, BIDS Faculty Director Fernando Pérez was presented with a 2023 Exceptional Public Service Medal, one of NASA's major recognitions for non-government personnel and granted for exceptional contributions to NASA’s mission. The medal was jointly awarded to Pérez and Brian Granger, Senior Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and professor of physics and data science at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo....

This Month at BIDS - September 2024

September 27, 2024

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UC Berkeley to launch compute hub with California Education Learning Lab

September 23, 2024

UC Berkeley experts received a $1.5 million grant from the California Education Learning Lab (Learning Lab) to launch a first-of-its-kind computing technology hub for the state’s public colleges and universities.

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This Month at BIDS - August 2024

August 23, 2024

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Director's Vision 2024

BIDS: a space for Open Scholarship, Open Source, and interdisciplinary collaboration on AI in science and society

April 15, 2024

Dear Berkeley Community,

I started as Faculty Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) in January 2024; today I would like to share some ideas I have for how BIDS can be a partner to your work. In the coming weeks the Associate Faculty Director, Professor Tim Tangherlini, will...

News & Events

BIDS events are the foundation of the community, where people gather and share. Read reports on those events and other relevant items of interest to the data science community.

The institute hosts and co-hosts data science and AI events on campus throughout the academic year. It partners with UC Berkeley departments, centers & institutes, other universities, and industry to contribute to the vibrant community. BIDS community members are active in their disciplines, receiving awards, publishing work, and attending conferences.

UC Berkeley’s OSPO Executive Director Joins Global Leaders at a UN Symposium

August 26, 2024

In April 2024, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) proudly established UC Berkeley’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO), under the leadership of Executive Director Jarrod Millman. Last month, Millman, along with colleagues from the UC OSPO network, represented the university at the second annual "OSPOs For Good" event, hosted at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

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The Center for Cultural Analytics Spring Lecture featured Professor Tina Eliassi-Rad

March 18, 2024

On March 7, 2024, the Center for Cultural Analytics hosted its Spring lecture event. BIDS Associate Faculty Director Tim Tangherlini welcomed Tina Eliassi-Rad, a professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, to UC Berkeley.

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UC Berkeley announces new NIH-funded Computational Social Science Training Program

April 23, 2020

UC Berkeley is launching a new Computational Social Science Training Program (CSSTP) to train predoctoral students with advanced computational and data science analytics skills to address pressing needs in biomedical, behavioral, social, and clinical research.

A five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences (OBSSR) and its partner institute, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver...

Image XD - 2023

April 6, 2023

Researchers from across domains (XD) that use imaging data participated in ImageXD 2023. The two day workshop brought together imaging experts from diverse fields such as medical, biodiversity, machine learning, and software development. Each day had a blend of talks in the morning with "unconference" breakout working groups that were decided daily based on overlapping interests and questions...