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#BerkeleyStats
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- The Institute of International Education and the Fulbright Program have selected faculty member Sam Pimentel as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2026-2027 for France. Pimentel will spend the year hosted by the Université de Montpellier. statistics.berkeley.edu/about/news/pim… #BerkeleyStats
- Professor Michael Mahoney and his team at @BerkeleyLab have developed a "bridge model" that connects conversational AI, such as GPT, to physics-based structural encoders. newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/05/18/new… #BerkeleyStats
- Leadership for the newly founded Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative include #BerkeleyStats faculty @yun_s_song and @fperez_org.@UCBerkeley and @UCSF have launched a joint initiative called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, and accelerate advances in clinical care. cdss.berkeley.edu/bcbi
- Yu’s Paradigm-Shifting Veridical Data Science Impacts Research and Health Applications: Over the last decade, Professor Bin Yu and her research group have pioneered and refined a new data science paradigm called Veridical Data Science. statistics.berkeley.edu/about/news/yus… #BerkeleyStats


