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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...

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...

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.

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,...

Esther Gomez

ERSO Research Administrator

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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Tristan Chambers

CLEAN Data Architect

Tristan works with a diverse group of journalists, civil rights activists, criminal defense attorneys, and researchers of machine learning and AI technologies to collaborate on a shared data platform of police misconduct records.