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Chenrong Zheng

Project Policy Analyst

Chenrong Zheng (she goes by Hazel) is a Project Policy Analyst at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), where she supports program operations and data reporting across BIDS' interdisciplinary research initiatives. Hazel graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Economics and minors in Data Science and International Trade and Finance, completed as part of a dual degree with Sciences Po Paris.

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Ali Kakhbod

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Ali Kakhbod is an assistant professor of finance at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT and a PhD in EECS from the University of Michigan. Drawing on this dual training, he develops machine-learning methods and economic models to understand how information, beliefs, and new technologies shape financial markets and institutions.

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Citlali Trigos-Raczkowski

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology, Demography, UC Berkeley

Citlali is a PhD student in Demography at UC Berkeley interested in how families form under pressure, what holds them together, and what gets carried forward to the next generation. With CSSTP, she hopes to bring a broader, more interdisciplinary set of computational and quantitative methods to her research. Prior to population research, she worked as a software engineer and data scientist in San Francisco, NYC, and Sierra Leone, and taught math and programming in various settings globally. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT, an M.S. in Data Science from the...

Alan Farsio Mozaffari

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

Alan Farsio Mozaffari (he/him) is a Health Policy PhD student in the Population Health Sciences track. His research examines how social and political-economic conditions within systems (e.g., schools, the criminal-legal system, and urban systems) shape developmental health and trajectories in early childhood and adolescence. He uses mixed methods, causal inference, systems thinking, and participatory action research to pursue two reinforcing goals: (1) to identify how policy mechanisms structure the systems that enable or constrain healthy developmental experiences, and (2) to explore how...

Sophie Horiuchi

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

Sophie Horiuchi (she/her) is a PhD student in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley. She is interested in social epidemiology and econometric methods to inform policies and practices that address the social determinants of health, with current research focused on the role of the social safety net in reducing child maltreatment. Sophie earned her BA in Public Health and MPH from UC Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a data analyst at Tracking California in sickle cell disease surveillance, where she developed an interest in leveraging large administrative datasets to inform public...

Clara Voong

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

Clara Voong (she/her) is a PhD student in Epidemiology. Clara is investigating biological and socio-environmental contributors to cardiometabolic health outcomes across the life course and future generations. She is interested in causal inference and multi-omics methods in precision health. Prior to her studies, Clara worked in community health.

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Evelyn Bellew

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley

Evelyn Bellew is a PhD student in the department of Sociology at U.C. Berkeley. Her research focuses on how organizational practices and labor policies impact worker well-being. Her current project examines the impacts of intensification on direct care workers in U.S. nursing homes. Prior to graduate school she worked as a labor analyst on the U.S. Senate HELP Committee and holds a BA in Political Science and American Studies from Tufts University.

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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...