Undergraduate Internships

BIDS Undergraduate Internships provide a variety of engaging data science research opportunities through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP). BIDS Data Science Fellows, Faculty and Research Affiliates, and Staff mentors enlist undergraduate students to help design and implement collaborative projects in a variety of research areas, helping students develop skills in research, programming, paper writing, project management, and team building. Fall 2022 projects are now posted on the URAP website, and more will be posted through the application period. Eligible undergraduates may apply online starting on August 17, through 9:00 AM Pacific on August 29, 2022. 

  • Computational imaging and microscopy – Laura Waller, EECS
  • Deep Learning Methods for High Energy Physics – Ben Nachman, LBNL
  • Demo Watch – Saul Perlmutter, BIDS; and Nick Adams, Goodly Labs 
  • Medical Imaging Research Using Deep Learning – Maryam Vareth, BIDS and UCSF 
  • Open-source software for generating synthetic electronic health records – Maryam Vareth, BIDS and UCSF 
  • Public Editor – Saul Perlmutter, BIDS; and Nick Adams, Goodly Labs 
  • Situational awareness dashboards for primary care clinicians – Maryam Vareth and Akram Bayat, BIDS and UCSF 
  • Subnational Brazilian Everyday and Pandemic Politics – Alison Post, Political Science
  • The Politics of Policing Technologies: Tracking Technology Adoption in the State of California – Alison Post, Political Science
  • Understanding physical processes and making environmental predictions using LSTM Neural Networks – Laurel Larsen, Geography
  • Using Data Science to Improve COVID-19 Response in Developing Countries – Josh Blumenstock, I-School, CEGA

Fall 2022 BIDS Undergraduate Internships - Apply August 17-29
July 25, 2022  |   BIDS News

Spring 2022 BIDS Undergraduate Internships - Apply January 11-24
January 10, 2022  |  BIDS News

Fall 2021 BIDS Undergraduate Internships - Apply August 18-30
August 17, 2021  |   BIDS News

Spring 2021 BIDS Undergraduate Internships - Apply January 12-25, 2021
December 15, 2020  |  BIDS News

Fall 2020 BIDS Undergraduate Internships - Apply August 19-31, 2020
August 6, 2020  |  BIDS News

Spring 2020 Projects 

  • BIDS Machine Shop - Stéfan van der Walt, BIDS
  • Computational imaging and microscopy - Laura Waller, EECS 
  • Cryptography of the unknown regions of genomes - Ciera Martinez, BIDS
  • Data science software stack for julia - David Anthoff, Energy and Resources Group
  • Deep Learning in Medical Imaging - Maryam Vareth, BIDS and UCSF 
  • Enabling future gamma-ray space missions - Andreas Zoglauer, Space Sciences Laboratory
  • Garbage In, Garbage Out? Do Machine Learning Research Papers Report Where Training Data Comes From? - Stuart Geiger, BIDS
  • Hydrologic forecasting for the East River, CO - Zexuan Xu, LBNL
  • Public Editor - Saul Perlmutter, BIDS; and Nick Adams, Goodly Labs 

Fall 2019 Projects

  • BIDS Machine Shop - Stéfan van der Walt, BIDS
  • Computational imaging and microscopy - Laura Waller, EECS 
  • Cryptography of the unknown regions of genomes - Ciera Martinez, BIDS
  • Data science software stack for julia - David Anthoff, Energy and Resources Group
  • Deep Learning in Medical Imaging - Maryam Vareth, BIDS and UCSF 
  • Demo Watch: Discovering Patterns of Peace and Violence between Police and Protesters - Nick Adams, Goodly Labs
  • Enabling future gamma-ray space missions - Andreas Zoglauer, Space Sciences Laboratory
  • Garbage In, Garbage Out? Do Machine Learning Research Papers Report Where Training Data Comes From? - Stuart Geiger, BIDS
  • Hydrologic forecasting for the East River, CO - Zexuan Xu, LBNL
  • Liberating Archives: Opening up Public Data for Open Research - Nick Adams, Goodly Labs 
  • Public Editor - Saul Perlmutter, BIDS; and Nick Adams, Goodly Labs 

BIDS undergraduate interns celebrate 2018-2019 milestones
May 20, 2019   |BIDS News