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Growing up in Los Angeles, Rucha Kelkar initially wanted to attend college out-of-state. She decided on Berkeley for its diversity in technology and computer science opportunities. She initially struggled to select a major, ultimately declaring Data Science with a Cognition emphasis. Data Science allowed Rucha to combine multiple fields as she was interested in the intersections of data science and neuroscience, computer science, and psychology...

At UC Berkeley, not only are professors advancing the field of data science; undergraduate students also are making an impact in their own right. They are designing data science curriculum, participating in research development, creating course materials with data sets, embedding responsible and ethical principles into data science curriculum, and engaging in research partnerships with entrepreneurs and corporations. The annual Data Science Showcase earlier this...

Statistics major, citizen scientist, EMT, harpist, and all-around superstar Anna Boser is this year’s winner of the University Medal, UC Berkeley’s highest honor for a graduating senior. Find out why she had planned to go anywhere but Berkeley -- and how she discovered that this was exactly where she needed to be.

Learn more about our students' amazing work this semester helping to design courses, explore the human and social contexts and ethics of data, and advance data science research projects.

As plans for re-opening businesses, communities, and schools emerge, it becomes increasingly important to better understand how many people are being infected and dying from COVID-19, and where and how the new coronavirus is transmitted. In this conversation led by Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and Professor of Physics, three Berkeley faculty opened different windows onto what we’re...

How much difference does closing schools make in limiting the spread of COVID-19? How about border restrictions? Stay-at-home orders? A group of researchers from Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and University of Illinois have built an app to help explore these questions. COVIDVIS enables users to look at the interplay of these and other interventions and the number of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths. The idea is...

A team led by two Berkeley faculty has received a grant to investigate and address eviction spikes and displacement risks related to COVID-19. They’re among the first grantees of the newly created C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute for projects focused on COVID-19 response and recovery. [[{"fid":"1805","view_mode":"width_200","fields":{"format":"width_200","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"5":{"format":"width_200","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock"}},"attributes":{"alt":"chapple - blumenstock","title":"chapple - blumenstock","style":"float: right;","class":"media-element file-width-200","data-delta":"5"}}]] Karen Chapple, Professor and Chair of...

Coming May 5: Our virtual Showcase highlighting students' amazing work designing courses, investigating the human and social contexts and ethics of data, and leveraging data science for everything from making cyberspace inclusive to promoting environmental justice.

Extrapolating from Italian data, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory data scientists estimate that the fatality rate for COVID-19 is higher than some recent estimates have suggested.

Hany Farid is conducting a major survey to find out how far COVID-19 online conspiracy theories have penetrated the population. The EECS and I School professor ultimately aims to develop strategies to stop misinformation about COVID-19 before it settles into people’s minds.