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Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Assistant Professor of Practice
Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
Assistant Professor of Practice
Predictive medicine; artificial intelligence; machine learning; tele-health; information disclosure; privacy; security.
Associate Professor
Natural language processing, computational social science, machine learning, digital humanities
Professor
Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange
Professor
Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Data Science news

The award will support Blumenstock’s work on a new paradigm of algorithmic decision-making  that prioritizes social impact.

Assistant Professor David Bamman was honored for for his research designing computational methods for natural language processing for fiction.

The Sloan Research Fellowship is given to the brightest up-and-coming scientists in the United States.

MIDS student Ben Arnoldy has been awarded the Fall 2019 Jack Larson Data Science for Good Fellowship for his work involving the use of data science to educate the public on climate change and pollution.

Assistant Professor Zachary Pardos and his team have developed a machine learning approach that promises to help more community college students position themselves to transfer and succeed at four-year colleges and universities. 

Assistant professor at the Berkeley School of Information, Aditya Parameswaran, has been awarded the 2019 Very Large Data Bases Early Career Award.

In the summer of 2019, Daniel Santamaria Ots received the Jack Larson Data for Good Fellowship for his research in Puerto Rico.

Professor Marti Hearst is one of six recipients of a Bloomberg Data Science Research Grant for research on Unsupervised Abstractive News Summarization.