September 19, 2024
UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) appointed two prominent faculty members to new endowed chairs. Bin Yu was named the CDSS Chancellor’s Chair, holding appointments in both the Department of Statistics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS). Jennifer Listgarten, a professor in EECS and the Center for Computational Biology, became the Jeffrey Huber and Angel Vossough Chancellor’s Chair in Computational Biomedicine. These appointments highlight the college’s commitment to advancing research in data science, computational biomedicine, and artificial intelligence.