February 23, 2018
Mechanical Engineering To Aid Back Surgery
Lower back pain is not as common as the common cold. But it’s close. About 80 percent of people suffer back pain sooner or later.
February 12, 2018
Security for Data Analytics - Gaining a Grip on the Two-Edged Sword
In the information age, data is power, and the ability to mine it can boost business profits, save patients’ lives and aid government security.
February 5, 2018
Computer Vision to Protect Patients — and Budgets
Alexandre Bayen and PhD student Pulkit Agrawal developed a computer vision-based system to help memory care centers monitor patient falls and to reduce them where possible.
May 1, 2017
“Data for Social Good”: A New Strategy to Strengthen Citizenship
Signatures Fellow Lisa Garcia Bedolla works to help more people join in the political process, locally and nationally.
March 7, 2017
A “VAST” Step Forward in Cyber Security
Signatures Innovation Fellow Vern Paxson and his team build on 20 years of experience to effectively understand and combat today’s cyber security threats.
February 28, 2017
Engineering to Restore Power to the People
Signatures Innovation Fellow Profesor Ruzena Bajcsy and postdoc Robert Matthew engineer devices to assist movement limited by stroke or other injury.
March 18, 2016
Three new Signatures Innovation Fellows announced
Three faculty members have been selected as 2016-17 Signatures Innovation Fellows, receiving as much as $100,000 per year each for up to two years to pursue commercially promising data science and software projects.
December 4, 2015
Signatures Innovation Program seeks faculty pursuing innovative research in data science and software areas
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, in partnership with CITRIS and BIDS, will be hosting an info session for prospective applicants to the Signatures Innovation Fellows Program on Wednesday, December 9.
October 14, 2015
Refining Persuasion Experiments — from Vaccines to Voting
Jasjeet Sekhon, a Signatures Innovation Fellow, has developed statistical approaches and new algorithms to provide simpler and much cheaper ways to assess the effectiveness of persuasion strategies.
October 5, 2015
Urban Infrastructure - Making Cities Smarter
Alexei Pozdnoukhov, a Signatures Innovation Fellow, leads research to use cellular data to aid traffic planning and operations. Fully developed, the technology could aid both traffic control and planning to keep pace with changes in transportation habits.
April 21, 2015
UC Berkeley launches the Signatures Innovation Fellows Program
In an effort to support UC Berkeley faculty interested in commercial applications of their research, UC Berkeley is launching a new program in the data science and software areas. The new Signatures Innovation Fellows program was recently established with the generous support of UC Berkeley alumnus Bobby Yazdani.