The CDSS Dean's Distinguished Lecture in Computing, Data Science, and Society is designed to highlight cutting-edge, data-driven science and technology and their broader societal applications and implications. Join us for an insightful lecture by Gerald Chan, a scientist and legendary venture capitalist, followed by a dynamic discussion with Chancellor Rich Lyons, Dean Jennifer Chayes, and Gerald Chan on how UC Berkeley can continue to lead at the forefront of knowledge and impact.
Event Details:
Date/Time: February 4, 2025 @ 12pm
Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
We are excited to send out the call for the 2025 Digital Humanities Faire posters! The Faire will take place April 22 and 23 with a poster session (virtual) and a keynote speaker. For the poster session, we invite sign-ups from across the UC Bay Area community. Students, grad students, staff, instructors, or faculty are welcome to show off their in-progress or completed work, ranging from maps to video sonnets, data visualizations, or completely experimental projects.
The UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group is a research community founded to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations in the digital humanities and cultural analytics. Our gatherings are participant driven and provide a place for sharing research ideas (including brainstorming new ideas and receiving feedback from others), learning about the intersection of computational methods and humanistic inquiry, and connecting with others working in this space at Berkeley. We encourage everyone to participate, regardless of your experience level. The DH Working Group is a welcoming and supportive community for all things digital humanities.
How do social science researchers conduct field experiments with private actors? Yue Lin provides a brief overview of the recent developments in political economy and management strategy, with a focus on filing field experiments within private corporations. Unlike conventional targets like individuals and government agencies, private companies are an emergent sweet spot for scholars to test for important theories, such as sustainability, censorship, and market behavior. After comparing the strengths and weaknesses of this powerful yet nascent method, Lin brainstorms some practical solutions to improve the success rate of field experimental studies. She aims to introduce a new methodological tool in a nascent research field and shed some light on improving experimental quality while adhering to ethical standards.
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The Undergraduate Education Data Team provides accessible and accurate data-driven insights to the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and other senior leaders on campus. We ensure accuracy by documenting our practices and validating our work products. We are a community of learners who support each other as each of us acquires new skills.
The Student Data Analyst will report to the Director of Data and Institutional Research and may receive work direction from the Lead Student Analyst. The Student Data Analyst will also provide administrative support as needed and may provide direct support to any staff in the Immediate Office, including the Chief of Staff, other staff analysts, and administrative staff. Work is remote with weekly in-person meetings. Applicants must be undergraduates enrolled at UC Berkeley, accept their Work Study award, and be able to commit to working in Summer 2025 and through academic year 2025-26.
Applicants for this position should email UE_DataTeam@berkeley.edu with (1) a cover letter that addresses the required qualifications and (2) a resume including all the classes or experience you possess around data cleaning, analysis, and visualization.
We are looking for a part-time research assistant (undergrad or graduate-level) who already has experience in perl to support our research team on a NASA-funded project titled “Attribution of hydrological change in an Andes water tower during the central Chilean mega-drought.” The position will include supporting the team to configure the open source Water Balance Model v.2.0.0 to the study site, integrating a workflow between the model and Savio, producing figures, and attending regular project meetings. The research assistant would be supervised by PhD candidate Kate Altemus Cullen (ERG) in this project which is overseen by Professor Meg Mills-Novoa (ERG/ESPM) and Professor Manuela Girotto (ESPM).
Details: Paid hourly, available 10 hrs/week in the Spring (undergrad), although we are flexible for a Summer position (undergrad/graduate) or different workload for the right candidate.
Requirements: Experience in perl (e.g. in labs or other projects)
Pluses: Strong organizational and communication skills, collaborative research experience, experience/interest in learning earth system modeling and climate change modeling, experience working with Singularity containers, experience in PDL, gdal, ogr, and NetCDF (modeling framework is likewise dependent on these).
Please email kate_cullen@berkeley.edu with a copy of your CV and a short paragraph about your relevant experience and interest in the position, as well as your availability to take on hourly work through Spring and/or Summer 2025.
The Undergraduate Journal of Digital Humanities (UJDH) seeks to promote undergraduate research and learning in the Digital Humanities at a time when the field is becoming increasingly important in academia and the world. For our inaugural issue, we are calling for undergraduate essays that engage with new media, the digital era, and the digital humanities with a submission deadline of March 15th. We also accept blog-post submissions on a rolling basis, of approximately three pages or less in length—these are more flexible and informal.
With generous funding from the Rita Allen Foundation, the Kavli Center in partnership with Neuroscientist and Civic Science Fellow, Dr. Narayan Sankaran, is conducting a community and stakeholder engagement research project to understand and connect impacted communities and non-scientific perspectives into the research agenda for the development of novel neurotechnologies, such as Brain-Computer Interfaces, that function as neuroprostheses for communication and mobility. The project engages and researches perspectives around the ethical tension between the benefits these technologies may confer for people with disabilities on the one hand, and the threats to privacy that these technologies are perceived to create on the other.
We are particularly interested in graduate students who have experience in fields related to stakeholder engagement, social sciences, or the study of responsible or community-engaged research.
Applicants are reviewed on a rolling basis. The research team hopes to hire early in the Spring 2025 semester.
The course CIV ENG 190S/290: Emerging Technologies for Public Health offers students the opportunity to explore the intersection of public health, computer science, IT, and digital health standards. Through case studies, participants will delve into topics such as standards and informatics, community mental health apps, AI/ML/NLP in public health, bio-surveillance, and lifestyle-change devices. Enroll for the Spring 2025 semester!
This course is part of the California Consortium for Public Health Informatics & Technology (CCPHIT) initiative, which addresses workforce shortages in public health informatics while fostering diversity. Successful course completion can lead to paid internships in health departments, non-profits, and clinical organizations.
We’re excited to invite you to the Women leading in AI Research – Digital Talks series, organized by our friends at the AI Grid project in collaboration with ICSI Berkeley! This four-day digital event series showcases leading women researchers in AI & ML, tackling topics from molecular simulations to security in AI. The program of course is relevant for all genders. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from top AI researchers and engage in thought-provoking discussions.
Event Lineup:
January 27:Machine Learning for Molecular & Continuum Simulations – Aditi Krishnapriyan (link)
January 28:AI for Earthquake Early Warning – Rie Nakata (link)
January 29:Deep Learning for Water Resource Management – Charu Varadharajan (link)
January 30:AI-Powered Attacks on Watermarking Security – Krti Tallam (link)
Dates/Time: January 27-30 @ 8:30am PST Location: Online via Microsoft Teams (see links above)
Nina Beguš will be giving a 25-minute presentation on Artificial Humanities and leading a 25-minute Q&A. Join us for lunch in person or join us on Zoom!
Artificial humanities is an interdisciplinary framework using the humanities to thoughtfully approach the development of AI. We will focus on both fictional and historical representations of AI—from Eliza Doolittle to Eliza the chatbot—and reflect on recent product developments in AI and language while considering the powerful role that fictional narratives play in tech spaces.
Date/Time: Monday, February 3 @ 12pm Location: Sutardja Dai Hall, Suite 621
Oral History Methodology for the Qualitative Researcher UC Love Data Week
Qualitative research encompasses many methodological approaches, and one of the most powerful is oral history. As described by the UC Berkeley Oral History Center, this approach involves producing "first-person narrative topical and life histories that explore the narrator’s understanding of events through a recorded interview...[this] results in a lightly edited transcript of the interview that the narrator reviews, which is then published." This differs from the more familiar qualitative research interview, in that it is a two-directional, and transparent process... which comes with its own challenges. In this workshop you will learn more about these synergies and contrasts between and within methods, hear more about best practices for conducting oral history projects, and have time to ask questions about project ideas of your own.
This event is part of the UC-wide "Love Data Week" series of talks, presentations, and workshops to be held February 10-14. All events are free to attend and open to any member of the UC community.
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 12 @ 1pm Location: Remote via Zoom
California Research Bureau (CRB)'s CRB Nexus: Where Policy Meets Research is a community of practice for policy staff and researchers across California to initiate and build relationships, share policy needs and solutions, and find ways to move those ideas into action to benefit all Californians.
The mission of the California Research Bureau is to provide nonpartisan and confidential public policy research for the Governor’s Office and the State Legislature and to advance equitable access via statewide initiatives.
We're excited to announce that the 13th BITSS Annual Meeting will be held at UC Berkeley on Thursday, February 27! This one-day event will bring together leading voices from academia, policy, and the scholarly publishing world to discuss new research and developments in research transparency, reproducibility, and ethics.
We are thrilled to welcome Brian Nosek as our keynote speaker. Brian is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science (COS), where he leads initiatives designed to increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research across disciplines. Brian will share his insights into how the research culture is evolving and what we, as a community, can do to push these changes further. We look forward to an engaging discussion on the role of institutions, researchers, and systemic reforms in fostering scientific progress.
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