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Reza Abbasi-Asl - Professor, Neuroscience
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance in many tasks such as computer vision and natural language processing. Interpreting deep networks is essential for applying them to scientific applications such as healthcare. Two prominent approaches to interpret neural networks are saliency methods and network compression. However, both methods...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesReza Abbasi-Asl - Professor, Neuroscience
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
Characterizing the the neural function in the brain and its relationship with connectivity is an eminent question of visual sensory processing. With the recent increase in the amount of the data collected from brain, tools based on machine learning principles play an essential role in understanding the brain function. The...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesReza Abbasi-Asl - Professor, Neuroscience
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
Computational tools based on machine learning principles have shown promising results in analyzing medical images. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful tools in this domain. While most of the algorithms based on CNNs are supervised and with the increasing amount of un-labeled datasets, it...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesReza Abbasi-Asl - Professor, Neuroscience
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
There is an immense amount of unstructured and uncollated data in neuroscience and bioinformatics that could be used to guide knowledge discovery. Large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in extracting and analyzing unstructured natural language corpora and are promising for semi-automated processing of text into scientific knowledge such...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a crucial driver of much of the recent progress in vision and language modeling. In the SSL paradigm, a model is pre-trained through a pretext task that only involves unlabeled data—the pre-trained representation is then fine-tuned on downstream tasks of interest...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In Self-supervised learning (SSL), a model is pre-trained through a pretext task that only involves unlabeled data—the pre-trained representation is then fine-tuned on downstream tasks of interest where only a small number of labeled examples may be available. In this project, we will explore novel...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Large language models (LLMs) pre-trained on large corpora of text have demonstrated incredible capabilities across with zero- or few-shot performance in new tasks that differ from their pre-training objectives. In this projects, we will study the zero- and few-shot performance of LLMs repurposed to issue predictions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Institutional constraints and concerns over patient privacy impedes sharing of clinical data among researchers. High-fidelity synthetic data that mimics the real data distribution without revealing real data for individual patients can help empower and democratize research applying machine learning models to clinical problems. In this project, we will use...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
LitBank an annotated dataset of fiction to support tasks in natural language processing and the computational humanities. While it currently exists for English, we'll be branching out to create similar resources for other language as well. The primary research will involve carrying out linguistic annotations (e.g., reading novels and marking...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Many computational studies on people in text focus on gender. We are interested in broadening the dimensions of identity labels analyzed in natural language processing and cultural analytics. In particular, we hope to carefully curate resources and datasets for investigating the representation of race in fiction, especially in literature used...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
There are several research opportunities available for undergraduates for expanding BookNLP (https://github.com/booknlp/booknlp), a natural language processing pipeline for books and other long documents. We'll be focusing on developing BookNLP for Python, and expanding its capacity to the languages of Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and German. This work will...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceGasper Begus - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project models spoken language from raw audio using deep generative neural networks (GANs). We use audio, neural, and behavioral data in spoken language to better understand and interpret deep learning models...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMatteo Benetton - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In this project we plan to study the effect of financial influencers on asset markets. We will identify influencers in popular general platforms (e.g., twitter, instagram) and platform more specific for investments (e.g., StockTwits). We plan to study for both stocks and cryptocurrencies trading activities and return performances of retail...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesMatteo Benetton - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The project is part of a large agenda trying to understand how banks compete in an evolving environment affected by changing demographics and the entry non fintech lenders and bigtech firms. One project is studying the heterogeneous preferences of borrowers and savers to explain the lengthening of the financial intermediation...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases (RR\ID) [rrid.mitpress.mit.edu], is an initiative of the MIT Press and the University of California, Berkeley. It is an open access, rapid-review overlay journal for the accelerated curation and peer review of COVID-19 and emerging infections disease-related research. RR\ID takes a transdisciplinary...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases (RR\ID) [rrid.mitpress.mit.edu], is an initiative of the MIT Press and the University of California, Berkeley. It is an open access, rapid-review overlay journal for the accelerated curation and peer review of COVID-19 and emerging infections disease-related research. RR\ID takes a transdisciplinary...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Psychiatric disorders including PTSD; and alcohol use disorder and other addictions are responsible for a large portion of both the global burden and US burden of disease. Current therapies help a significant portion of people suffering from these disorders. Nevertheless, many patients do not respond adequately or cannot tolerate the...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The last few decades have seen growing acknowledgement and emphasis on the need to bridge gaps between research and practice. Implementation Science (IS) is the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices into routine practice. An evolving and interdisciplinary field...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Access to credit can be an important lifeline, but it can also lock people into debt traps. Mobile banking technologies have completely transformed the ways in which people, especially in the developing world, access credit, raising new questions about fairness and welfare in lending. The goal of this project is...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Over the past decade, the rapid proliferation of mobile phones, satellites, and other digital sensors has created tremendous opportunities to measure human behavior. These data also provide the foundation for the growing interdisciplinary field of computational social science. Non-traditional “big” data hold unique potential in developing and conflict-affected...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Data-Intensive Development Lab at UC Berkeley (didl.berkeley.edu) is providing data science support to the governments of several Low and Middle Income Countries, as well as humanitarian organizations like GiveDirectly, who are doing their best to effectively respond to the evolving humanitarian crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Sustainable sand mining is one of the most pressing ecological challenges currently facing the planet. After water, sand is the world’s most valuable natural resource – over 50 billion tons of construction-grade sand and gravel were mined globally from rivers and beaches in 2021, accounting for 85% of all mineral...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceCarl Boettiger - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Become familiar with the mathematical, statistical, and computational tools used in the group and learn how to apply these methods to answer questions in ecological research and conservation decision making. Emphasis on the use of deep reinforcement learning and best practices in data science software development...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental Issues Digital Humanities and Data ScienceCarl Boettiger - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Develop, test, and visualize methods for forecasting ecological variables such as carbon flux, beetle abundance, or indicators of aquatic ecosystem health...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental Issues Digital Humanities and Data ScienceTianna Bruno - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In this project, undergraduate student researchers will focus on one or two of the following aspects of a broader digital humanities project: 1) archival analysis of historical records related to 'environmental burdens' in an environmental justice community. Students will work to chart a history of the country's largest refinery and...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Environmental Issues Social SciencesTianna Bruno - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will assist in the creation of a digital humanities project on Black geographies and environmental justice. Over the past four years, I have collaborated with community organizations and community members to collect oral histories focused on Black history, environmental relationships, and connections to place in Port Arthur, Texas, a...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Environmental Issues Social SciencesIain Carmichael - Professor, Statistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
UC Berkeley and UCSF are beginning a new collaboration on several large scale machine learning projects for medical imaging in Pathology. The ultimate aim of this collaboration is to develop clinically impactful deep learning algorithms for disease diagnosis/prognosis using massive (e.g. 100,000x100,000 pixel) whole slide images (https://www.pixelscientia.com/article...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Mathematical and Physical SciencesIain Carmichael - Professor, Statistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
There is an expanding effort to improve patient care and accelerate biomedical research through the development of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that analyze high-resolution images of cancerous tissue biopsies. As in all AI applications, data is the critical ingredient; our ability to develop clinically deployable algorithms is dependent on...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Mathematical and Physical SciencesIrene Chen - Professor, Computational Precision Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project will investigate the presence of biases in large language models (LLMs) designed for clinical applications...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceIrene Chen - Professor, Computational Precision Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project involves leveraging AI techniques to model and predict health outcomes resulting from extreme weather events due to climate change...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceIrene Chen - Professor, Computational Precision Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project involves analyzing clinical data to better understand diabetes progression patterns and equity in diagnostic testing and treatment decisions...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceCharles B. Faulhaber - Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Conversion of the PhiloBiblon relational database of ca. 420,000 records to the netgraph architecture of FactGrid: a database for historians. The software used is Wikibase, the same software used for Wikipedia. PhiloBiblon is a database of the Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan primary sources (manuscripts and early printed books) of medieval...
Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an opportunity to work with a large dataset of over 400 million employment profiles (resumes) in order to understand global employment dynamics and firm performance. In this project, we will leverage techniques from big data and machine learning to structure and analyze large textual data, which can help...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project supports Professor Anastassia Fedyk’s research on economics of AI. The research uses unique measure of firm-level investments in AI and other emerging technologies, derived from individual employees’ resumes. The research answers key questions such as: Do new technologies such as AI benefit firms? What happens to the...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project assists in Professor Fedyk's more practical research, including not only her research papers but also frequent media interviews and the op-eds she writes for outlets such as Washington Post and LA Times. Example topics covered in this project include: Macroeconomic policies in the US...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on data: hand-collecting new data, improving existing data, and structuring large messy data. Today, very large data sets are often at the heart of many social science research questions. However, those data sets can be plagued by big data problems: missing data, bad data, duplicate data...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesMassimiliano Fratoni - Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Pebble bed reactors (PBRs) use small spherical fuel elements that are piled in a cylindric core to achieve critical mass and energy production. The pebbles are circulated in and out of the core until the inner fuel is exhausted and at that point they are replaced with new pebbles. Such...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceHeather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The tech sector has a gender problem. Women are underrepresented in engineering and management jobs. Journalists and industry veterans have documented the bro culture that pervades tech and leads to discrimination and harassment. With 2 PhD students, I am analyzing gender inequality in the tech sector in 2 separate (but...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceHeather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
My research team is analyzing employee reviews from Glassdoor.com to understand what topics or themes are most salient to employees. In other words, we want to know what employees say when they describe their jobs and workplaces. Although there has been a lot of research on a few topics that...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJulian Hong - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Hong lab is part of the UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology and Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. We focus on combining clinical domain knowledge with data science to generate insights from real world data, develop actionable computational tools, and evaluate the benefit of these advances for personalized cancer care...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Our lab is interested in how the brain computes and represents values that allow us to make decisions. These decisions range from the mundane and everyday, such as what to have for lunch, to truly momentous ones such as deciding on where to attend college. This project, and others in...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
As a fast growing branch of artificial intelligence, natural language processing (NLP) has made it possible to uncover subtle patterns and hidden trends in large-scale real-world text data. It offers researchers and practitioners powerful tools to efficiently derive novel insights and predictions that are otherwise expensive or even...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We are looking for 1-2 student trainees who are interested in understanding the effects of early-life adversity/stress on economic and financial decision-making. Despite the well-documented fact of the impact of early-life adversity on life-outcomes, researchers and policymakers know much less about the specific...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project will apply neuroscientific tools and insights to address a problem that has bedeviled businesses, legal scholars, and policymakers—how to more objectively determine whether a work of art is “based on plagiarism” or is “obscene”. In music copyright, for example, a key question is whether two works are...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We explore how motivated and cognitive biases lead people to support inequality, even when it's not in their best interest to do so...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
For this lab study, we are examining moral decision-making within group contexts. Specifically, we are exploring how moral decisions are discussed and made in groups...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Some topics under investigation: - Do perceptions of hiring criterion vary based on preference to maintain the status quo? - Exploring the pitfalls of the hiring process and attempts to increase diversity - Why do supervisors assign more diversity related tasks to racial minority and woman employees? What psychological cost does this have...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceYehuda Kalay - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The performance of healthcare facilities is an important issue due to the high value of the services they provide on one hand, and the high cost of constructing and operating them on the other. Various disciplines have offered measures to assess such performance, focusing on different indicators. The healthcare industry...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMichelle Koo - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The world's natural history museums are responsible for documenting over 1.8 billion species known as a result of 300 years of biological exploration of the planet. The information contained in museums include observational and specimen-based data, text, images, sound and video and form the foundation of what we know...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyMichelle Koo - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) is a vibrant research and informatics center for the campus and the natural history communities around the world. If you enjoy sharing natural history news and research as well as connecting people in our community and the public, this is the apprenticeship for you...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science 150 Years of Women at Berkeley