Bederson Involved in Startup for Regulatory Inspection

Ben Bederson, a professor of computer science with an appointment in UMIACS, is part of a startup company that created a new database for food safety inspections across the United States.

Bederson co-founded Hazel Analytics along with Ginger Lin, a UMD professor of economics, and Philip Leslie, an associate professor of business management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The company has developed a database that uses data robots to automatically collect data from local government websites related to food safety inspections.

Bederson says this new technology represents a huge leap from local and state databases that are built using manually-collected and sometimes poorly correlated data, and which can easily miss the big picture and have little impact on compliance actions.

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