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Arash Ardakani

BIDS Data Science Research Scholar (Computer Architecture, Machine Learning Systems, Stochastic Computing)

Arash Ardakani is a former Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) Research Scholar, advised by Prof. John Wawrzynek at University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University and his master in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. His research interests include scientific methods for efficient neural computing, memory management in inference and training of large artificial intelligence models, stochastic computing, edge computing, hardware accelerators, and applications of machine learning for...

Madelon Hulsebos

BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar (Data Science for All)

Madelon is a former BIDS Postdoctoral Scholar advised by Aditya Parameswaran in the EPIC Lab. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, she did her PhD research at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, and held a research position at Sigma Computing. Her research is on the intersection of data management and machine learning, with recent contributions in methods, tools and resources for Table Representation Learning. Her research objective is to make retrieving insights from data a walk in the park, for everyone.

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Jarrod Millman

Executive Director, Berkeley's Open Source Program Office (OSPO); Senior Open Source Scientific Python Developer

Jarrod Millman is a Senior Open Source Scientific Python Developer at BIDS and the Executive Director for Berkeley's Open Source Program Office (OSPO). With a background in computer science, mathematics, and statistics, and degrees from Cornell and Berkeley, Millman is a founding member of the scientific Python ecosystem. His primary focus is on developing and sustaining open-source, community-owned scientific software tools. Millman serves on the steering council of NetworkX...

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...

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...

Ayyub Ibrahim

CLEAN Data 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, and the co-creator of the...

Stéfan van der Walt

Senior Research Data Scientist

Stéfan van der Walt is a researcher at BIDS. He is the founder of scikit-image and co-author of Elegant SciPy, and has been developing scientific open source software for two decades, focusing mainly on Python packages such as NumPy & SciPy.

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Tarak Shah

CLEAN Program 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.

Tim Thomas

Research Training Lead, Berkeley Computational Social Science Training Program
Urban Displacement Project, UC Berkeley

Tim Thomas is a professional researcher and research director at Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project (UDP) specializing in urban sociology, demography, and data science. His research focuses on how neighborhood change, housing disparities, policies, and displacement affects household socioeconomic stratification and mobility by race and gender in the United States. His research at the UDP centers on developing open-source tools to measure displacement and gentrification as well as a national housing precarity risk model...

Harpreet Mangat

Executive Director, Computational Research for Equity in Legal Systems (CRELS)

Dr. Harpreet Mangat is Executive Director of Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) at the University of California, Berkeley. She has held various leadership positions on campus at the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. She was also a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at Cal. Prior to coming to the United States, Harpreet was a professor in the department of Political Science at Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar,...