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Alex Schulte

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Health Policy, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Alex Schulte is a Health Policy PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the role of social and organizational networks in improving equitable access to healthcare, in particular sexual and reproductive healthcare. Alex is interested in leveraging computational social science methods, such as causal inference and machine learning, to address complex research questions with the goal of improving health equity. Prior to starting her PhD, Alex led sexual and reproductive health programming at the Deloitte Health Equity Institute in New York City. She...

Solis Winters

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Health Policy, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Solis Winters is a PhD student in Health Policy, with a specialization in Population Health and Data Science, at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on improving health and nutrition during the first 1000 days of life, from pregnancy through age two. She is especially interested in using methods from causal inference to better understand what types of community-based interventions can improve birth outcomes and child malnutrition in low-income communities. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she researched mechanisms...

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...

Kirstie Whitaker

BIDS Executive Director

Dr Kirstie Whitaker is a passionate advocate for making science "open for all" by promoting equity and inclusion for people from diverse backgrounds. She joined BIDS as Executive Director in January 2025. Kirstie holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Medical Physics from the University of British Columbia, supported by a Commonwealth Fellowship. She completed her PhD at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley in 2012, where she held a Fulbright Scholarship. Kirstie was a...

Liam Parker

Lightcone Research Initiative Co-lead
Department of Physics

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...

François Lanusse

BIDS Research Affiliate
CosmoStat Laboratory, Astrophysics Department, CEA Paris-Saclay

Lightcone Research Co-Lead

Tenured Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Dr. François Lanusse has been a tenured researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 2020, based at the CosmoStat laboratory (CNRS/CEA Paris-Saclay). He is a leader in statistical and AI methods for astrophysics, and has held leadership roles in major international collaborations, including the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) and the LSST Informatics & Statistics Science Collaboration (ISSC). He received his PhD in cosmology...

Ayyub Ibrahim

Senior AI/ML 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...

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...

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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