UC Berkeley CDSS awards $50K each to nine faculty for new ML research projects
berkeley_ai · x · 2026-11-07
UC Berkeley's College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) announced the first CDSS Machine Learning Research Awards, funded by a gift from Citadel Securities. Nine faculty each receive $50,000 in unrestricted funds for the 2026-27 academic year.
Funded projects include AI-accelerated behavioral experiments (Serina Chang, Avi Feller), robust evaluation of predictive algorithms under confounding and distribution shift (Amanda Coston), flows for Bayesian model checking (Ryan Giordano), self-improving language model systems from rich feedback (Jason Lee), transformer-compatible memory for decision-making (Sewon Min), and communication policies for strategic language coordination in negotiation (Narges Norouzi, Joseph Gonzalez), among others.
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