Directory

Maryam Vareth

College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Affiliated Researcher, Computing Sciences Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Managing Director of Open Platforms for Health, College of Computing, Data Science and Society (CDSS) Founding Director, Innovate For Health Initiative Principal Investigator, UC Berkeley Affiliated Researcher, Center for Intelligent Imaging (Ci2), UCSF

Dr. Maryam Vareth served the Chief Health Technology Officer at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and Managing Director of Open Platforms for Health at UC Berkeley’s College of...

Ayyub Ibrahim

CLEAN AI Engineer

Ayyub Ibrahim is a data scientist and a member of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science's CLEAN police project, where he uses AI and machine learning to process unstructured data. Ayyub joins BIDS from the Innocence Project New Orleans, where as the Director of Research he built ML tools for community organizations, innocence organizations, and public defender offices. Ayyub is also the founder of Machine Learning Justice Lab, a startup that develops AI tools for legal and human rights defense communities. He also serves as a lead...

Jamilah Karah

Program Analyst

Jamilah Karah is a Program Analyst in the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, where she supports interdisciplinary initiatives across the Dean’s Office, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Computational Precision Health, and the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet. Her work spans program coordination, analytical reporting, event strategy, and faculty support, with a focus on strengthening collaboration between research, leadership, and administration. Jamilah holds a B.A. in Philosophy with a minor in Digital and...

Erin M. Kerrison

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
Associate Professor, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Erin M. Kerrison's work extends from a legal epidemiological framework, wherein law and legal institutions operate as structural determinants of health. Specifically, through varied agency partnerships, her mixed-method research agenda investigates the impact that compounded structural disadvantage, concentrated poverty and state supervision has on service delivery, substance misuse, violence, and other health outcomes for individuals and communities marked by criminal legal system intervention.

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Galen Mancino

CLEAN Program Manager

Since 2018, Galen Mancino has contributed to and helped maintain the open-source knowledge-graph geospatial software known as the Arches Project. He is strongly interested in the intersection of Law, Government, and Technology and how we can collectively maintain and expand our digital commons in service of the non-digital commons.

Tarak Shah

CLEAN Partnerships Manager

Tarak Shah is a data scientist and member of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), where he leads HRDAG's U.S. collaborations. He has experience working with community organizations, lawyers, journalists, international human rights institutions, and transitional justice mechanisms to support campaigns for accountability. He brings that experience to the CLEAN police records project, where he manages an interdisciplinary effort to build a statewide database of police use-of-force and misconduct.

Simon Cooper

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology, Demography, UC Berkeley

Simon Cooper is a PhD student in the departments of sociology and demography at UC Berkeley with research interests in queer/LGBTQ* demography, economic sociology, and law and society. He hopes to critically apply computational techniques to surface (un)intended consequences of policy and law on key demographic outcomes, from the fertility effects of marriage equality to the later-life mortality effects of precarious work.

Before starting his PhD, Simon completed an MPhil in sociology and demography at Oxford, where his masters thesis investigated the causes of enduring...

Min Ragan-Kelley

Senior Open Infrastructure Architect

Min is a Senior Open Infrastructure Architect at BIDS, working on open source infrastructure for research and education, especially around the Jupyter project. He was a founding member of the Jupyter Steering Council, co-creator of JupyterHub, and has been working with IPython and Jupyter since 2006. Min got his PhD in Applied Science & Technology at Cal in 2013 working in Nuclear Engineering, and now spends most of his time on the JupyterHub, JupyterHealth, and Conda-Forge projects, as well as supporting students and researchers in open source open science.

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Gisselle Rodriguez Benitez

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley

Gisselle Rodriguez Benitez (she/her) is a PhD student in Sociology. She is interested in the intersection of work, training, and wellbeing. Gisselle is currently researching non-college pathways into the tech industry. With the Computational Social Science fellowship, she intends to build her text mining and analysis skills to explore digital discourse on economic precarity and self-improvement.

Prior to doctoral studies, Gisselle was a Research Associate at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University and a Fulbright student researcher at the Center for Educational...

Angela Jin

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Angela Jin is a PhD student in Computer Science with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Algorithm Auditing. Her current research focuses on auditing policies and practices in the U.S. criminal legal system, and their implications for accountability. More broadly, her work aims to support community-led evaluations of and oversight over sociotechnical systems. Angela was also a member of the inaugural cohort of the UC Berkeley AI Policy Hub, where she worked on policy proposals regarding the use of algorithmic decision systems for forensics in the U.S. criminal legal system....