Former BIDS Research Fellow Nick Adams, PhD, is now Founder & Chief Scientist of Goodly Labs, an organization that provides collaborative online resources and opportunities that enable citizen scientists to engage with publicly available data. He is a sociologist, data scientist, and creator building tools and experiences that help people find common ground and build a better society. In a career motivated by his aspiration to improve the world, Adams has led electoral campaigns, directed the national security division of a...
Madeline Adee is a Health Policy PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, with a specialization in Population Health and Data Science. Her research focuses on improving public health interventions and healthcare for people involved in the criminal justice system. She is also interested in the implementation process of prison reform programs and policies, including decarceration, and how these efforts can improve health and reduce health disparities. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked on studies assessing the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of different hepatitis C...
Senior Scientist and Scientific Data (SciData) Division Director, LBNL
Dr. Agarwal's research focuses on scientific tools which enable sharing of scientific experiments, advanced networking infrastructure to support sharing of scientific data, data analysis support infrastructure for eco-science, and cybersecurity infrastructure to secure collaborative environments.
Ross Barnowski is a postdoctoral scholar working towards the development of open, interactive tools for learning and teaching NumPy. Ross has been involved in open source software for reproducible, collaborative science since 2015, primarily in his role as an educator. He holds a PhD in nuclear engineering from UC Berkeley and previously served as an assistant research scientist and lecturer in the department of nuclear engineering, teaching the graduate-level lab in nuclear instrumentation. His post-graduate research focused...
Akram Bayat is a data scientist with expertise at the intersection of AI and healthcare. She was a postdoc associate at MIT Media Lab where her research focused on creating novel intersections between engineering, medical imaging, machine learning, and medicine to develop innovative high-impact patient-centered research. Bayat received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Boston. During her Ph.D. research, she worked on developing machine learning algorithms for solving real-world problems and conducted experimental studies for modeling of human physical and...
Sebastian Berg was a postdoctoral scholar at BIDS working to advance NumPy. He started working on the NumPy project in 2012, and he has been a member of the NumPy steering council since 2015, when the governance of the project was formalized. He received his PhD in physics from the University of Göttingen studying the dynamics during cardiac arrhythmia. During his PhD work he focused on the experimental characterization of the spatio-temporal dynamics and its control during ventricular fibrillation in the rabbit heart.
Monica De La Cruz is a PhD student in the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare. She holds an MPH from the University of San Francisco and a BS from San Francisco State University. Her research interests focus on ways to ameliorate economic inequality as a means to positively impact children’s health, specifically for communities of color. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was the Program Manager for the Pediatric Advocacy Program at the Stanford School of Medicine. While at Stanford, Monica worked on an interdisciplinary team examining the impact of local interventions on addressing basic...
BIDS Alum – Assistant Project Scientist and Data Science Outreach Lead
Alex de Siqueira was a postdoctoral researcher at BIDS, working on open source algorithms for processing computed tomography (CT) 3D images. He received his MS and PhD from the State University of São Paulo, Brazil, applying image processing tools to tackle challenges in materials science and geochronology. A core developer of scikit-image, he is an open source and free software enthusiast since his first contact with Linux, in 2000, contributing to several...
Reza Eghbali received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle. He has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran. Before joining Innovate For Health, Reza was a member of the machine learning and security team at Cisco Tetration Analytics, where he developed and implemented online learning algorithms for detecting network security threats in real-time. Reza was a Simons Institute Research Fellow at UC Berkeley in the 2017-18 academic year. He visited the institute for the...
Marsha Fenner is the Communications/Program Manager for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. In this role, she works to connect researchers, facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, and implement training and education programs that engage, enhance, and expand BIDS' and Berkeley’s vibrant and diverse data science community by strengthening partnerships and integrating research efforts among a wide array of disciplines and departments across campus and beyond. Fenner has managed communications, training/education/outreach programs, and administrative operations for scientific...
