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The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) welcomed Kirstie Whitaker as its executive director last month. BIDS is an interdisciplinary data science community and part of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society.

No stranger to UC Berkeley, Whitaker received her PhD in neuroscience before completing a postdoc at Cambridge University. She spent the last eight years in London at the Alan Turing Institute, first as a research fellow mentoring doctoral projects on topics including machine learning prediction...

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On October 9, Madelon Hulsebos, a researcher and former BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar, presented her work “Retrieval Systems for Structured Data: the critical missing piece for grounding LLM-driven query interfaces in factual data”. She discussed how retrieval systems for structured data are key in grounding LLM-powered query interfaces in factual and domain-specific data stored in relational databases and data lakes.

The first part of Madelon's talk...

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a $1.125 million grant to a team of researchers at the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Over the next 15 months, BIDS will host a collaborative effort between BIDS, LBNL, and their partners at Superbloom, The Carpentries, and 2i2c. Through the STRUDEL project, this collective endeavor aims to promote awareness and adoption of...