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Rosemary Gillespie

BIDS Faculty Council Member
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; UC Berkeley
Professor and Chair in Systematic Entomology; Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Faculty Director, Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley CONNECT:

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Laura Waller

BIDS Faculty Council Member
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley CONNECT:

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Henry Brady

BIDS Faculty Council Member
Political Science and Public Policy, Goldman School, UC Berkeley
Professor, Political Science and Public Policy, UC Berkeley Former Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley (2009-2021) Co-Investigator, Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments

Christina Misunas

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow

Christina Misunas is a PhD student in Demography at UC Berkeley. Her research to date has focused on the intersection of gender, health, and education in low- and middle-income countries. For the past five years, she has worked with Population Council and UNICEF’s Data Analysis Unit on research around girls’ education, child marriage, and adolescent childbearing. Prior to working in research, Christina spent several years in Washington, DC, working on global advocacy and programming for sexual and reproductive health with Marie Stopes International and the Open Society Foundations. Misunas...

Xi Wu

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Accounting, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Accounting, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Xi Wu is an assistant professor in the Accounting Group at Haas School of Business. Her work focuses on the intersection of securities regulation, corporate governance, valuation, and Fintech. Her current research centers on how regulations affect firms, how managers and creditors use information to address agency issues, and how to use newly available data to value firms and cryptocurrencies.

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Olivia Natan

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Olivia Natan is an assistant professor in the Marketing Group at the Haas School of Business. Her work focuses on the implications of information frictions on firms and consumers using large-scale firm data. Her recent work has focused on excess product variety in platform markets and organizational frictions in airline pricing.

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John Huelsenbeck

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Professor, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley

John Huelsenbeck is a professor of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. He is a computational and evolutionary biologist whose research focuses primarily on using phylogenetic analysis to reconstruct a genealogical history of life by comparing DNA samples. His research uses Bayesian inference to address questions about relationships among various species, evolution, and adaptation.

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David J. Harding

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Sociology, D-Lab, UC Berkeley
Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley Faculty Director, D-Lab, UC Berkeley

David J. Harding is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the D-Lab, which supports data-intensive research in the social sciences and humanities. Dr. Harding studies poverty and inequality, urban neighborhoods, education, adolescents and young adults, incarceration, and prisoner reentry. He uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. His current projects include the social and economic reintegration of former prisoners, the transition to adulthood after prison, the effects of incarceration on crime,...

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...

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,...