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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

Stacey Dorton

Administrative Manager

Stacey Dorton is the Administrative Operations Manager for BIDS. She is an administrative professional with 20 years’ experience in office management. She has done administrative work for a wide variety of organizations, including an elementary school, a psychiatric facility, a waste management firm, and a catering company. She also has extensive experience in the event management and social media fields. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley in women’s studies.

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.

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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.

Katherine S. Pollard

BIDS Research Affiliate
Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Director, Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

Katherine S. Pollard's lab develops statistical models and open source bioinformatics software for the analysis of massive genomic datasets.

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Maryam Vareth

BIDS Chief Health Technology Officer
College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Managing Director, Agile Metabolic 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 is the Chief Health Technology Officer at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and Managing Director of the Agile Metabolic Health at UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). With a career spanning over 15 years at the...

Heather A. Haveman

BIDS Faculty Council Member
Sociology, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Faculty Director, Master of Computational Social Science (MaCSS)

Heather A. Haveman's research interests include how organizations, the fields in which they are embedded, and the careers of their members and employees evolve. Her current work involves American magazines and wineries, Chinese listed firms, and the emerging marijuana market in several US states.

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