BERKELEY, Calif., August 16, 2023 - Associate Professor Fernando Pérez from the Statistics Department at UC Berkeley will be the next Faculty Director for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). The appointment will start in July, 2024. As a founding team member of BIDS, Pérez brings a deep understanding of the data science community at Berkeley and a commitment to high profile open-source projects. Open-source remains one of the fundamental pillars of BIDS.
UC Berkeley researchers launched a pioneering interdisciplinary training program this week that will blend criminal justice and computer science in ways that experts say will help reduce long-standing, systemic inequities in the criminal legal system.
The program, called Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System (CRELS), is being made possible with a $3-million National Science Foundation grant. Launched by a multidisciplinary research team that includes Berkeley’s...
BIDS Faculty Affiliate and UC Berkeley Travers Associate Professor of Political Science Alison Posthas been named a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for the 2022-2023 academic year. The Hoover Institution at Stanford University awards scholars whose academic...
UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) has named Sandrine Dudoit the associate dean for faculty and research. A professor in the Department of Statistics, the School of Public Health’s Division of...