UCB Faculty Affiliates

Rediet Abebe

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UC Berkeley Co-founder, Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) Co-founder, Black in AI

Rediet Abebe is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Junior Fellow (2019-22) at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Abebe holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University and graduate degrees in mathematics from Harvard University and the University of Cambridge.

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David Ackerly

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Integrative Biology
Dean, College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley Professor, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

David Ackerly is the Dean of UC Berkeley's Rausser College of Natural Resources with joint appointments in the departments of Integrative Biology and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. His research interests include climate change impacts on biodiversity, integration of phylogenetics and ecology, and conservation biology...

David Anthoff

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

David Anthoff is an environmental economist who studies climate change and environmental policy.

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David Bamman

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
School of Information, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley

David Bamman works on applying natural language processing and machine learning to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences.

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Nina Beguš

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, UC Berkeley
Researcher, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society Lecturer, History Department, UC Berkeley Lecturer, School of Information, UC Berkeley

I lead the Artificial Humanities group where we focus on the intersection of humanities and AI across three research areas: cultural imaginary and social bias, narratology and writing creativity, and philosophy of science and technology. My first book, titled Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI (2025), presents my...

Gašper Beguš

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

Gašper Beguš is an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley where he directs the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab. He is also the Linguistics Lead at Project CETI and a Member of Berkeley's Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. Before that, he graduated with a Ph.D. from Harvard. His research focuses on developing deep learning models for speech data. Dr. Beguš combines machine learning and statistical models with...

Eric Betzig

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Molecular and Cell Biology, Experimental Physics
Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley Professor and Chair in Experimental Physics, UC Berkeley Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UC Berkeley Faculty, Cellular/Molecular Neuroscience, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Eric Betzig works in super-resolution, as well as with non-diffracting light sheets for the 4D dynamic imaging of living systems and adaptive optics to recover optimal imaging performance deep within aberrating tissues.

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Joshua S. Bloom

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Professor, Astronomy, UC Berkeley

Josh Bloom teaches high-energy astrophysics, Python bootcamps, and a graduate-level class on Python for data-driven science. He has published more than 250 refereed articles, largely on time-domain transients events and telescope/insight automation.

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Joshua Blumenstock

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
School of Information, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley Director, Data-Intensive Development Lab, UC Berkeley Director, Global Policy Lab, UC Berkeley Faculty Co-Director, Center for Effective Global Action, UC Berkeley CONNECT:

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Carl Boettiger

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Carl Boettiger is an ecologist working on problems in ecological forecasting and decision theory. Boettiger's research blends theoretical investigation with the creation of software tools to use and test these concepts in ecological questions.

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