Below is a partial list of people who were involved in BIDS programs previously and the role they held. (Please note that some are still active at UC Berkeley.)
Akram Bayat - I4H Data Science Innovation Fellow Sebastian Berg - Scientific Software Developer Alex de Siqueira - BIDS Project Data Scientist Reza Eghbali - I4H Data Science Innovation Fellow Marsha Fenner - BIDS Communications Manager Amanda Glazer - Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow Elena Glassman...
Mahader Tamene is a PhD student in the Division of Epidemiology at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. A public health scholar dedicated to facilitating health and justice for underserved populations globally, her research focuses on maternal and child mental health disparities, particularly community-based interventions that address the structural forces driving these disparities. Tamene has worked in community health education, health research, program implementation and evaluation both domestically and abroad. She holds an MSc in global health and population from Harvard T.H....
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...
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 under...
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.
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.
Rebecca Barter is a statistician, data scientist, educator, and communicator who has a dual passion for empowering others by teaching critical thinking and technical skills for data science, and for uncovering the hidden patterns and stories that live inside complex datasets (primarily related to healthcare and medicine). Barter is working on making healthcare data more accessible, developing data science curriculum, and teaching data science to clinical researchers.
Elizabeth Smith is a biophysicist and data scientist who is passionate about using data and algorithms to improve lives and make work more efficient. She spent the past five years at a geospatial analytics startup where she applied artificial intelligence / machine learning to build software products from terabytes of satellite imagery. Her postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF and the Advanced Light Source focused on developing novel methods to image, reconstruct, co-align and analyze features within three-dimensional tomographic reconstructions. Dr. Smith has a PhD in biophysics from the...
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...
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...