Postdoctoral Scholars

Meet the BIDS Postdocs

Data science research topics at BIDS have included education, criminal justice, environmental change, machine learning, table representation learning, and more. Learn more about the current scholars below and see a partial list of scholars who have completed their appointments at BIDS.

Kyla Bourne

BIDS Data Science Research Scholar (Criminal Justice)

Kyla Bourne works to improve direct, empirical accountability of criminal law enforcement. She uses novel data to evaluate whether ongoing institutional changes have resulted in meaningful decarcerative reform. To date, she has focused on evaluating whether charging decisions made by newly-elected local reformist prosecutors may in fact end mass incarceration. As a BIDS Data Science Research Scholar, Dr. Bourne will collaboratively build a national database of police misconduct records under the mentorship of BIDS Faculty Affiliate, ...

Zhanhao Hu

BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar (Robust AI)

Zhanhao Hu is a Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) Research Scholar, under the supervision of Professor David Wagner at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, as well as his B.S. In Mathematics and Physics, from Tsinghua University. His research interest primarily includes adversarial examples and privacy within the domains of computer vision and large language models.

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