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Liam Parker is a Ph.D. student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Physics Department at UC Berkeley, advised by Uroš Seljak. His research interests are in cosmology, with an emphasis on statistical methods for large-scale data analysis, and AI. He co-leads the Lightcone Research initiative at BIDS, building open-source infrastructure for AI-assisted science. He is also a member of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and an affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. Prior to Berkeley, he received his A.B. in Physics...

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 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...

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.