Data Science, AI & Robotics News

Professor Sonia Katyal won a Dukeminier Award for her article “The Gender Panopticon: AI, Gender, and Design Justice".

Professor Deirdre K. Mulligan has been tapped to join the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for Policy.

Chemists have created a new type of material from interlocking molecules that for the first time allows the synthesis of extensive 2D or 3D structures.

ChatGPT is changing the ways teachers educate students, scientists trust research and journalists report the news. It passed the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam and an exam to receive a business master’s degree.

A new study found that young Black men with no college education earn barely half of what their Asian American and white counterparts make. Latinx, Asian and Black women lag even further.

An interdisciplinary team of industry and academic researchers led by Professor Alexandre Bayen has completed its most ambitious real-time traffic experiment to date

In a massive traffic experiment scientists tested whether introducing just a few AI-equipped vehicles to the road can help ease “phantom” jams and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. The answer seems to be yes.

Using advances in machine learning, two separate teams have developed approaches to shorten in-the-field training for quadruped robots in record time.

The first annual ACM conference spotlighted work where algorithms and data-driven approaches, alongside social sciences and other fields, can help solve equity and access issues affecting historically disadvantaged and underserved communities.

Aaron Streets has been named to Popular Science’s Brilliant 10, honoring trailblazing early-career scientists and engineers.

Andrew Reddie has launched the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab (BRSL), thanks to a $1.8M grant from the Founders Pledge Fund

A new UC Berkeley institute will bring together top machine learning and chemistry researchers to make this vision a reality, and a Bay Area foundation is providing a substantial gift to launch and enable this work at UC Berkeley over the next five years.