Data Science

February 10, 2020

Insight Data Science Fellows Program — 3/16/2020

The Insight Data Science Fellows Program is an intensive 7-week post-doctoral training fellowship bridging the gap between academia & data science. The Insight Fellows Programs are tuition-free fellowships for graduating students looking to transition to thriving careers as data scientists, engineers, and other cutting-edge professionals. Insight Fellows: Pay no tuition;…

July 10, 2019

I School Launches Certificate in Applied Data Science

Beginning in Fall 2019, UC Berkeley graduate students may apply to earn a Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Science from the UC Berkeley School of Information. The certificate requires three 3-unit courses and is designed to complement a student’s regular degree program. Upon graduation, a…

January 13, 2019

DataEDGE Conference — 4/23/2019

A New Vision for Data Science Are you and your organization taking advantage of the opportunities created by today’s flood of new data? Do you know about the latest tools for storing, analyzing, and visualizing data? Have you considered the privacy implications of working with data? How do leaders balance…

September 30, 2018

IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award Program — 10/23/2020

About the program Strong collaboration with faculty, students and universities is vital to IBM. The IBM PhD Fellowship Program advances this collaboration by recognizing and supporting exceptional PhD students who want to make their mark in promising and disruptive technologies. Focus areas include the following topics of particular interest:…

May 2, 2018

Graduate Student Data Science Pedagogy Workshop — 6/8/2018

Friday, June 8, 2018 Academic Innovation Studio, Dwinelle 117 (Level D) In this new one-day workshop, graduate students will learn about the pedagogy of the Data Science Education Program, where UC Berkeley is leading in curricular innovation in this exciting area. This workshop will cover some…

April 10, 2018

OptumLabs Summer Internship Opportunity — 4/20/2018

OptumLabs Data Science Internship Program University of California, San Francisco Institute for Computational Health Sciences Summer 2018 Program summary This program will appeal to those student/trainees who wish to apply their Data Science training to the field of biomedicine and health care, an area ripe for innovation. The…

April 10, 2018

Summer Fellowship with The Data Incubator

Program The Data Incubator is a Cornell University-funded data science training organization. It is now offering an intensive eight-week Fellowship that prepares master’s and doctoral students and postdocs in STEM and social science fields who are seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for…

November 14, 2017

Competition: CTSP and Facebook’s Data for Good — 1/28/2018

The Center for Technology, Society & Policy (CTSP) seeks proposals for a Data for Good Competition. The competition will be hosted and promoted by CTSP in coordination with the UC Berkeley School of Information IMSA, and made possible through funds provided by Facebook. Team proposals…

November 5, 2017

Data Sciences for the 21st Century (DS421) — 2/1/2018

Data Sciences for the 21st Century (DS421) is a two-year interdisciplinary graduate training program whose mission is to train a new generation of scientists to tackle grand challenges at the intersection of natural, social and data sciences by translating data into evidence-based analysis of impacts and solutions in the face of…
D lab

May 16, 2016

Spotlight on D-Lab

Now that the rush of finishing coursework and papers for Spring 2016 is over, it’s time to think about summer. Those of you around Berkeley in the coming months may want to check out D-Lab.

August 13, 2015

Center for Technology, Society and Policy promotes Grad Student and Postdoc Involvement

The UC Berkeley School of Information is launching the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy, established with seed funding from Google, to focus on engineering ethics, technology and well-being, standards and governance, and digital citizenship. The multidisciplinary Center will solicit proposals in the four areas of concentration annually,…