Directory

Daniel Lobo

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology, UC Berkeley

Daniel Lobo is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Historically, his research interests have been in education inequality in K-12 and higher education, with a focus on the life outcomes of low-income students. Lobo is currently interested in two lines of research: the global political economy of higher education and the effects of social media on cultural production and reproduction. Epistemologically, he seeks to leverage big data and machine learning to bridge disciplines in his research and to ask predictive questions in the social sciences. As a CSSTP fellow,...

George Obaido

BIDS-CHAI Data Science Research Scholar (Education)

George Obaido is a Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) - Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, working with BIDS Faculty Affiliate Rediet Abebe, an assistant professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Obaido completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. His research...

Kyla Bourne

BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar (Criminal Justice)

Kyla Bourne works to improve direct, empirical accountability of criminal law enforcement. She uses novel data to evaluate whether ongoing institutional changes have resulted in meaningful decarcerative reform. To date, she has focused on evaluating whether charging decisions made by newly-elected local reformist prosecutors may in fact end mass incarceration. As a BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar, Dr. Bourne will collaboratively build a national database of police misconduct records under the mentorship of BIDS Faculty Affiliate, ...

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.