Adam Yala made an excited call from Sweden to his PhD advisor at MIT when he first saw the study results in September 2019. Their research group’s artificial intelligence model for detecting patients at risk of breast cancer from mammogram images – developed and tested in Boston – had worked consistently on Swedish patient data, without any adjustments. When the same thing happened months later...
Two early-career faculty at UC Berkeley's College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) – Natacha Crooks and Song Mei – have been awarded prestigious 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships. The fellowship is granted annually to “honor exceptional researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders,” according to the Sloan Foundation...
Chan was invited to campus to give the first inaugural CDSS Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on February 4 to a packed auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall. His lecture – titled “Rethinking Clark Kerr: The uses of the university in the age of generative AI” – reflected on Kerr’s contributions and considered how to prepare today’s students for a world enabled by AI technologies.
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...
UC Berkeley has reappointed Jennifer Chayes, founding dean of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) to a second five-year term. The dean term began January 1, 2025, and will end December 31, 2029
Jelani Nelson launched accessible, international coding programs, advocated for high quality public STEM education in California and, as of last fall, chairs Berkeley’s top-ranked Computer Science Division in EECS.
Jennifer Chayes, dean of UC Berkeley's College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, reflects on the past year and expresses optimism about the institution's path forward in an open letter to the college community.
Ida Sim has spent her career pioneering ways to make medical data more open and shareable. She helped pave the way for more accessible health data. Now, she wants CPH to train the next generation to harness artificial intelligence to develop more precise, personalized treatments. Through it all, she’s kept her role as a primary care doctor central to her work.
Brian Xi, B.A. ‘24, became interested in public interest technology during his first data science course. His professor used the 1854 cholera outbreak in London to teach about causation, showing how a physician proved water supply differences explained varying death rates. That discovery saved lives. Today, Xi does similar work on a project at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Negotiators have the ability to nearly eliminate plastic pollution by 2050 through a developing international treaty, according to a study published today in Science. Leaders could pick any of several policy combinations addressing plastic’s production, use or disposal to achieve this goal, the University of California team found.
