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The Berkeley Institute for Data Science team includes developers, faculty, postdoctoral scholars, researchers, and administrative staff. BIDS has an active and diverse community of interdisciplinary experts from life, social, & physical sciences, the humanities, computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics.

Meareg Hailemariam

BIDS Graduate Fellow
Development Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Meareg Hailemariam is a master's student in Development Engineering at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. His research interests lie at the intersection of data analytics/machine learning and development issues. Currently, as part of his capstone project, he is working with the Potts Lab and fellow DevEng students on a research project that uses Meta Ads Reach estimates to track climate-driven seasonal migration in the case of Guatemala. He is also a Digital Transformation of Development fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Countries, UC Berkeley.

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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...

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Madelon Hulsebos

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

Madelon is a 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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Lilli Wessling Hart

Events and Communications Manager

Lilli Wessling Hart is a business operations and communications professional with over 25 years of experience. Before joining BIDS, she was a founding employee of a media technology company where she led meaningful experiences for international customers, business partners, students, and staff. She received her BA from University of Michigan.

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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.