People

Directors

Saul Perlmutter

BIDS Faculty Director

Physics, UC Berkeley and LBNL. 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Ashish Sahni

BIDS Executive Director

Faculty Council

Henry Brady

BIDS Faculty Council Member

Political Science and Public Policy, Goldman School, UC Berkeley

Sandrine Dudoit

BIDS Faculty Council Member

Statistics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Rosemary Gillespie

BIDS Faculty Council Member

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; UC Berkeley

Marta C. González

BIDS Faculty Council Member

City and Regional Planning, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Heather A. Haveman

BIDS Faculty Council Member

Sociology, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Niek Veldhuis

BIDS Faculty Council Member

Assyriology, Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley

Laura Waller

BIDS Faculty Council Member

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Staff

Stacey Dorton

Administrative Manager

Esther Gomez

ERSO Research Administrator

Lilli Wessling Hart

BIDS Events and Communications Specialist

Harpreet Mangat

NSF-NRT Computational Research for Equity in Legal Systems

Research Scholars

Arash Ardakani

BIDS Data Science Research Scholar (Computer Architecture, Machine Learning Systems, Stochastic Computing)

Kyla Bourne

BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar (Criminal Justice)

Meryem Essaidi

BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar (Responsible AI)

George Obaido

BIDS-CHAI Data Science Research Scholar (Education)

Fellows

Madeline Adee

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Health Policy, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Neena Albarus

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow

Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Elizabeth Breen

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Sociology, Demography, UC Berkeley

David Minh-Duy Cao

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Caitlin Chan

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Epidemiology, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Alagia Cirolia

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Monica De La Cruz

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Benjamin Fields

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Annette Gailliot

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Amanda Glazer

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow

Statistics, UC Berkeley

Meareg Hailemariam

BIDS Graduate Fellow

Development Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Elleni Hailu

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Epidemiology, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Luyi Jian

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow

Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Jonathan Landeros-Cisneros

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow

Education, Critical Studies UC Berkeley

Daniel Lobo

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Marisa Tsai

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Epidemiology, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Christina Misunas

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Krista Neumann

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Ángel Mendiola Ross

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow, Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Saron Goitom

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Epidemiology, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Alex Schulte

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Health Policy, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Valentín Sierra

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Sofia Guo

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Mahader Tamene

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Epidemiology, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Solis Winters

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Health Policy, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Faculty and Research Affiliates

Rediet Abebe

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Computer Science, UC Berkeley

David Ackerly

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Integrative Biology

David Anthoff

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

David Bamman

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

School of Information, UC Berkeley

Eric Betzig

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Molecular and Cell Biology, Experimental Physics

Joshua S. Bloom

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Astronomy, UC Berkeley

Joshua Blumenstock

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

School of Information, UC Berkeley

Carl Boettiger

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Tolani Britton

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

School of Education, UC Berkeley

John Canny

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Cathryn Carson

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

History, UC Berkeley

Sarah E. Chasins

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Alvin Cheung

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Ronald Cohen

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley

Perry de Valpine

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; UC Berkeley

Anca Dragan

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Hany Farid

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

EECS, School of Information, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley

Neil Fligstein

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Gerald Friedland

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Jack Gallant

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Psychology, UC Berkeley

Lisa García Bedolla

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley

Jack Glaser

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Douglas Guilbeault

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

David J. Harding

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Sociology, D-Lab, UC Berkeley

John Harte

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Energy & Resources Group; Environmental Science, Policy & Management; UC Berkeley

Joseph Hellerstein

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

David Holtz

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Giles Hooker

Statistics, UC Berkeley

John Huelsenbeck

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley

Daniel Kammen

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Energy and Resources Group, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Maggi Kelly

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Environmental Science, Policy,and Management; Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF); UC Berkeley

Erin M. Kerrison

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Laurel Larsen

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Geography, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Michael Mahoney

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Statistics, UC Berkeley

Olivia Natan

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Aditya Parameswaran

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

School of Information, EECS, EPIC Data Lab, UC Berkeley

Fernando Pérez

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Statistics, UC Berkeley; Data Science and Technology Division, LBNL

Maya Petersen

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public Health, Computational Social Science, Computational Precision Health, Center for Targeted Machine Learning and Causal Inference

Trond Petersen

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Social Sciences, Haas School of Business, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Alison E. Post

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Political Science, Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley

Linda Haverty Rugg

BIDS Faculty Council Member

Scandinavian, UC Berkeley

Pamela Samuelson

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Berkeley Law School, Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley

Jasjeet Sekhon

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Political Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley

Uroš Seljak

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Physics, Astronomy, UC Berkeley and LBNL; Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics

James Sethian

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Mathematics, UC Berkeley and LBNL

Rachel Slaybaugh

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley

Somayeh Sojoudi

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Sameer B. Srivastava

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Haas School of Business, Sociology, Computational Culture Lab, Berkeley Culture Initiative, UC Berkeley

Philip B. Stark

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Statistics, UC Berkeley

Nicholas Swanson-Hysell

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley

Tim Tangherlini

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Department of Scandinavian, UC Berkeley

Rebecca Wexler

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Berkeley Law School, Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley

Xi Wu

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Accounting, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Adam Yala

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Bin Yu

BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Statistics, EECS, Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley

Alumni

Nick Adams

Former BIDS Research Fellow (Social Science)

Deb Agarwal

Scientific Data Division, LBNL

Ross Barnowski

BIDS Scientific Software Developer (NumPy)

Akram Bayat

I4H Data Science Health Innovation Fellow

Sebastian Berg

BIDS Alum – Scientific Software Developer (NumPy)

Alex de Siqueira

BIDS Alum – Assistant Project Scientist and Data Science Outreach Lead

Reza Eghbali

I4H Data Science Health Innovation Fellow

Marsha Fenner

BIDS Alum – Communications/Program Manager

Elena Glassman

Former BIDS Data Science Fellow (EECS)

Jessie Harney

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Benjamin Lacar

I4H Data Science Health Innovation Fellow

Ivana Malenica

BIDS Data Science Fellow

Biostatistics, UC Berkeley

Jeroen Ooms

Assistant Research Engineer (rOpenSci)

Elizabeth Smith

I4H Data Science Health Innovation Fellow

Sara Stoudt

Former BIDS Data Science Fellow (Statistics)