Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our world. The Center for Responsible Machine Learning reflects UC Santa Barbara's commitment to advancing cutting-edge research in AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, with an emphasis on the societal impacts of these rapidly evolving technologies. We are particularly interested in addressing issues of fairness, bias, privacy, transparency, explainability, and accountability in the context of AI algorithms, and in understanding the wide range of ethical, policy, legal, and even energy-efficiency issues associated with machine-learning models. We envision the center becoming an indispensable locus of innovation, where bold leaders produce visionary software and revolutionary techniques that powerfully serve the greater good.
The Chancellor's Staff Advisory Council (CSAC) actively researches and identifies UCSB staff issues and reports these issues directly to the Chancellor. The Council also provides advisory services to the Chancellor and other senior administrators on campus policies, procedures, and long-range plans pertinent to staff. CSAC plans annual Staff Celebration Week activities, nominates staff members to serve on campus committees, and provides advisory services to the Chancellor and to other senior administrators on campus policies, procedures, long-range plans, and other issues. Many staff on campus have served on CSAC. Additionally, CSAC's co-chairs and council members regularly participate in committees and meetings that have local and system-wide impact. This has included interview committees for the Executive Vice Chancellor, housing committees, transportation studies, and campus planning committees. The council participates in meetings with high-level officials such as the President of the University of California, the Staff Advisor and Staff Advisor Designate to the Regents, Vice Chancellors and Associate Vice Chancellors across campus, and administrators from central offices. By participating in these important committees and meetings, CSAC provides staff voices and perspectives to the administrative and physical infrastructure of the University.
Data Science describes a broad range of theories, algorithms, and tools that lead to a better understanding and predictive modeling of the world around us. It is an interdisciplinary field of scientific methods, processes, and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data, structured or unstructured. It employs techniques and theories drawn from many fields within the broad areas of mathematics, statistics, and computer science; equally important are the application areas that provide the context and domain-specific principles with which data science can have an impact and reach its potential.
The East Asia Center (EAC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara promotes interdisciplinary research and cultural events on East Asia. It brings together UCSB faculty, students, and the wider local public with leading scholars and other creative individuals from other institutions in order to create a critical and nurturing community for the study of East Asia. EAC strives to collaborate with a range of departments, individuals and other units in the Humanities, Social Sciences and beyond that are invested in education and public understanding of East Asia. EAC invests in relationships between UCSB and the East Asian region as well as the academy and the public. EAC is housed within the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (ISBER) at UC Santa Barbara. To be added to the UCSB East Asia Center email listserv, please email: lisamcallister@ucsb.edu
The UCSB Emeriti Association was founded in 1978. It is a voluntary, self-supporting association of retired Academic Senate faculty and other academic retirees (Lecturers with Security of Employment, Continuing Lecturers, professional Researchers, Librarians), their spouses or domestic partners, and their survivors. The Association is recognized by the University as an Affiliated Organization.
Save the date for the 2020 Parents & Family Weekend, an annual campus-wide event welcoming families to the Gaucho Experience. Due to COVID-19, we are reviewing how implementation of 2020 Parents & Family Weekend will be impacted. As details become available, this website will be updated. We appreciate your patience and understanding while we continue to navigate this complex and challenging situation.
The Retirees Association offers a wide variety of programs for fun and information, enabling staff retirees to maintain old and develop new friendships. The association keeps abreast of changes to retirees benefits and sends representatives to attend meetings of the system-wide Council of University of California Retiree Associations (CUCRA), the voice of UC Retirees in continuing dialogue with UC leadership. As a retiree of UCSB, you have provided priceless service to our campus during the course of your employment. The Retirees Association in turn would like to be of service to you. The following features of the Retirees Association are provided to all members: Interaction among retirees through a diversity of programs; enjoyment of new, continued, and renewed friendships among its members; assist members in understanding UC benefits available to them; social activities.
SciTrek is dedicated to allowing 2nd - 12th grade students to experience the scientific process first hand. SciTrek seeks to partner with local schools to present inquiry based modules that not only emphasize the process of science but also a specific grade level Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Performance Expectation (PE). Each module allows students to design and carry out an experiment. Providing students with the opportunity to not only learn scientific facts but also experience scientific practices allows students to understand how scientists use evidence based explanations to explain the world around them. In addition to providing programming for students, SciTrek strives to demonstrate the importance of three-dimensional based teaching to teachers, practicing teachers, and teachers in training.
The UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI) is a UC-wide initiative that stimulates, nurtures, and promotes global health research, education, and collaboration to advance health in California and worldwide. UCGHI advances the mission of the University of California to improve the lives of people in California and around the world. UCGHI leverages the diverse expertise across the University to revolutionize training of future global health leaders and accelerate the discovery and implementation of transformative global health solutions. UCGHI brings together the health and non-health sciences to tackle increasingly complex global health problems. We believe that forging a transdisciplinary approach with authentic partnerships with our global collaborators and local communities has the greatest chance of ensuring sustained success. Only through such a concerted integration, across disciplines, campuses, and sectors can we truly impact global health. UCGHI harnesses UC’s unparalleled resources. Hundreds of faculty, researchers, staff and students across the UC system invest their passion and skills for healing the earth and its people into global health education, research and activities that influence policy. UCGHI was founded in 2009 by Haile T. Debas MD, Chancellor Emeritus, UC San Francisco. In its first few years UCGHI generated over $13 million benefiting UC global health programs and activities, launched the GloCal Health Fellowship program, and awarded over $7 million in scholarships and fellowships to UC students, faculty, and postdocs. UCGHI also launched three Centers of Expertise to conduct action-oriented transdisciplinary policy-relevant research addressing key global health issues: Migration and Health; One Health: Water, Animals, Food and Society; and Women’s Health and Empowerment.