Alumni

Marsha Fenner

BIDS Alum – Communications/Program Manager

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...

Elena Glassman

BIDS Alumni
Former BIDS Data Science Fellow (EECS)

Former BIDS Data Science Fellow Elena Glassman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS), and the Stanley A. Marks & William H. Marks Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. At UC Berkeley, Glassman was an EECS postdoctoral researcher at the Berkeley Institute of Design, advised by Bjoern Hartmann. She earned her EECS PhD at MIT CSAIL in August 2016, where she created scalable systems that analyze, visualize, and provide insight into the code of thousands of programming students. Prior...

Amanda Glazer

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Statistics, UC Berkeley

Amanda Glazer is currently a Statistics PhD candidate. Her research focuses on nonparametric methods, with an emphasis on expanding the theory and proper use of permutation tests in social good applications. She has a wide range of applied interests including education, sports and criminal justice. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Amanda earned her BA in mathematics and statistics, with a minor in computer science, from Harvard.

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Jessie Harney

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Jessie Harney was a PhD candidate and Graduate Student Researcher at the Goldman School of Public Policy. Her research interests are in criminal justice system reform with a specific focus on mental health and improving outcomes for those whose lives are impacted by the carceral system. She holds degrees in Psychology (BS) from Truman State University, Biostatistics (MS) from Washington University in St. Louis, and Public Policy (MPP) from the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy.

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Luyi Jian

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

Luyi Jian is currently a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her research is
situated within the juvenile and criminal legal systems, focusing on intervention strategies at
the individual level and policy evaluation at the systemic level. Her dissertation explores a
strength-based, innovative intervention that aims to translate the largely abstract Positive
Youth Justice paradigm into real application. Specifically, she explores the extent to which
justice-involved youth develop a prosocial identity or sense of self, and tests the conditions
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Benjamin Lacar

I4H Data Science Health Innovation Fellow

Benjamin Lacar studied biochemistry at UCLA and earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Yale University. His postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute was the first to report transcriptomes of activated single-neurons. He subsequently joined Fluidigm to help develop genomics applications. In his initial role as a product applications scientist, he analyzed data for marketing, educated staff and customers, and supported external collaborations across a variety of research domains. He then created analysis pipelines to facilitate method development as a bioinformatics scientist. Seeking to...

Ivana Malenica

BIDS Data Science Fellow
Biostatistics, UC Berkeley

Ivana Malenica is a Ph.D. student in the Biostatistics Division working with Mark van der Laan. She earned her Master’s in Biostatistics and Bachelor’s in Mathematics, and spent a year working as a Freeport-McMoRan research fellow in Data Science and Bioinformatics at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). Some of her prior work centers around mathematical modeling and Bayesian models for allele specific expression. Very broadly, her research interests span non/...

Harpreet Mangat

Former Executive Director, Computational Research for Equity in Legal Systems (CRELS)

Dr. Harpreet Mangat was the Executive Director of Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) at the University of California, Berkeley. She has held various leadership positions on campus at the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. She was also a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at Cal. Prior to coming to the United States, Harpreet was a professor in the department of Political Science at Guru Nanak Dev University in...

Marisa Tsai

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Epidemiology, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Marisa Tsai is a PhD student in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the effects of early life nutrition and the role of federal nutrition assistance programs in reducing health disparities, increasing food security, and improving dietary intake. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked on studies evaluating policy changes in school meals, healthy retail policies, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Marisa holds an MS and MPH in Food and Nutrition Policy and Programs from the Friedman School of Nutrition...

Krista Neumann

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Krista Neumann is a PhD student in Epidemiology at Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her goal is to apply her training in Mathematics to social epidemiological questions focused on reducing health disparities. Neumann’s current research interests aim to answer the causal question: which policies, programs and interventions most successfully reduce systematically embedded barriers to health for marginalized and low-income communities. She’s particularly interested in food and nutrition insecurity as a specific outcome, as well as ways to overcome obstacles which prevent evidence from...