UCB Faculty Affiliates

Gerald Friedland

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Gerald Friedland is the co-founder and CTO of Brainome. His work focusses on large-scale machine learning for multimedia retrieval, and he has also worked in privacy and privacy education.

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Jack Gallant

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Psychology, UC Berkeley
Professor, Psychology, UC Berkeley Faculty Steering Committee Member; Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public; UC Berkeley

Jack L. Gallant's research program focuses on computational modeling of the human brain. These models accurately describe how the brain encodes information during complex naturalistic tasks, and they show how information about the external and internal worlds are mapped systematically across the surface of the cerebral cortex.

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Lisa García Bedolla

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division Professor, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley

Lisa García Bedolla uses the tools of social science to reveal the causes of political and economic inequalities in the United States, considering differences across the lines of ethnorace, gender, class, geography, sexuality, et cetera. She has used a variety of social science methods – participant observation, in-depth interviewing, survey research, field experiments, and geographic information systems (GIS) – to shed light on this question.

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Jack Glaser

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Jack Glaser is a social psychologist whose primary research interest is in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. In particular, he is interested in racial profiling, especially as it relates to the psychology of stereotyping, and the self-fulfilling effects of such stereotype-based discrimination.

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Douglas Guilbeault

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Douglas Guilbeault studies how people learn, challenge, develop, and invent categories by communicating in social networks.

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David J. Harding

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Sociology, D-Lab, UC Berkeley
Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley Faculty Director, D-Lab, UC Berkeley

David J. Harding is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the D-Lab, which supports data-intensive research in the social sciences and humanities. Dr. Harding studies poverty and inequality, urban neighborhoods, education, adolescents and young adults, incarceration, and prisoner reentry. He uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. His current projects include the social and economic reintegration of former prisoners, the transition to adulthood after prison, the effects of incarceration on crime,...

John Harte

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Energy & Resources Group; Environmental Science, Policy & Management; UC Berkeley
Professor, Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

John Harte investigates the effects of human actions on, and the linkages among, biogeochemical processes, ecosystem structure and function, biodiversity, and climate. His work spans a range of scales from plot to landscape to global and involves field investigations, mathematical modeling, and theory development.

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Joseph Hellerstein

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley
Jim Gray Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Joseph M. Hellerstein's work focuses on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing. Hellerstein is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Trifacta, a software vendor providing intelligent interactive solutions to the messy problem of wrangling data.

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David Holtz

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Berkeley Haas School of Business

David Holtz studies the design of online marketplaces and platforms using large-scale online field experiments and novel digital trace data. His research agenda focuses on online trust and reputation system design, the business and societal impacts of personalized recommendations, and the design and analysis of field experiments in online marketplaces.

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Giles Hooker

BIDS Alumni
Statistics, UC Berkeley
Professor, Statistics, UC Berkeley

Giles Hooker’s research interests focus on the interface of statistics with both machine learning and applied mathematics, as well as functional data analysis and robust statistics. Much of his research has been inspired by applications in ecology and healthcare.

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