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Omair Gill

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Omair is a PhD student at the Goldman School of Public Policy. His current research focuses on the impacts of California’s Three-Strikes law and free prison communications. Prior to starting his PhD, Omair was a research associate at the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley, where he worked on projects related to prison sentencing and criminal law. Omair holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UC Davis.

Sequoia Rose Andrade

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Statistics, UC Berkeley

Sequoia is a PhD student in the statistics department at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining Berkeley, she worked as a Research Engineer contractor at NASA and focused on wildfire safety related research. She holds a B.S. in mathematics and psychology from Santa Clara University, M.S. in statistical data science from San Francisco State University, and is an awardee of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. She is passionate about applying computational methods to complex and impactful real-world problems, with a focus on social good applications.

Peter Forberg

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Sociology, UC Berkeley

Peter Forberg is a PhD student in Sociology at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the connections between digital technology, the administrative state, and political movements. In particular, he is interested in how political actors are using technology to reshape contemporary knowledge and enact their political visions. Prior to entering graduate school, Peter conducted independent research on the political conspiracy group QAnon. In future research, he hopes to combine the methods of computational data science with those of qualitative content analysis and participant observation....

Arisa Sadeghpour

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Statistics, UC Berkeley

Arisa Sadeghpour is a third-year PhD student in Statistics advised by Dr. Erin Hartman. She is interested in developing statistical methods, specifically in causal inference, for social science applications. Previously, she graduated from Rice University with a degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics and was a fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Taylor Galdi

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Berkeley Law School, UC Berkeley

Taylor Galdi is a JD/PhD student in Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. Her research focuses on courts, social movements and social change, and the legal profession. Prior to starting her PhD, Taylor worked as a Mitigation Specialist at the Center for Community Alternatives and as a Lab Manager at the University of Michigan Law School. Taylor holds an MFA in Literary Nonfiction Writing from Eastern Washington University and a BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan.

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. 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, is a core developer of scikit-image, and was an early contributor to NumPy, SciPy, and scikit-learn. He has co-...

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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Adrian Hill

Assistant Dean, Interdisciplinary Initiatives
College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

Adrian Hill is assistant dean for interdisciplinary initiatives in the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. She joined CDSS with more than 15 years’ experience working to support academic research, most recently in the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research at Columbia University. In that role, she worked to bolster cross-campus research themes, including climate and precision medicine. She partnered with faculty leadership to develop the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and strengthen its ties with academic departments across the university. She...

Rebecca Barter

Alumni Council
Former BIDS Data Science Fellow
University of Utah

Rebecca Barter is a statistician, data scientist, educator, and communicator who has a dual passion for empowering others by teaching critical thinking and technical skills for data science, and for uncovering the hidden patterns and stories that live inside complex datasets (primarily related to healthcare and medicine). Barter is working on making healthcare data more accessible, developing data science curriculum, and teaching data science to clinical researchers.

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Esther Gomez

ERSO Research Administrator