Directory

Saul Perlmutter

BIDS Founder and Former BIDS Faculty Director
Physics, UC Berkeley and LBNL. 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Professor, Physics, UC Berkeley Director, Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Faculty Steering Committee Member; Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public; UC Berkeley 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Saul Perlmutter is a 2011 Nobel Laureate, sharing the prize in Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe. He is a BIDS founder and was the BIDS Faculty Director until 2023, a professor of physics at UC Berkeley (where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair), and a senior...

Iain Carmichael

BIDS Research Affiliate
Pathology and Data Science, UNC-Chapel Hill and UCSF

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Data Science at UNC-Chapel Hill

Visiting Assistant Professor of Pathology at UCSF

Iain is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Data Science at UNC-Chapel Hill working in computational Pathology and open-source software. He previously held a visiting faculty position in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley. His lab builds data driven, computational systems to analyze high-resolution histology images of diseased tissue as well as other clinical data sources such as genetic testing and electronic health records.

CONNECT:...

Rediet Abebe

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UC Berkeley Co-founder, Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) Co-founder, Black in AI

Rediet Abebe is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Junior Fellow (2019-22) at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Abebe holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University and graduate degrees in mathematics from Harvard University and the University of Cambridge.

CONNECT:

Twitter

Jose Aguilar

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley

Jose is a doctoral student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership program at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. His research interests include using computational social science methods to understand the factors influencing the aspirations of men of color in higher education, the access and equity in higher education for first-generation and traditionally underrepresented students, and students’ career pathways within educational contexts. Before this, Jose was a Computer Science & Math Teacher in Los Angeles, providing differentiated instruction for diverse students. Additionally, he...

Eric Rawn

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Eric Rawn is a PhD Student in Computer Science with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Programming Languages. They study how data scientists and other expert practitioners use programming environments in order to support them with better tools.

Andy Kim

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

As a graduate student in Biostatistics, I applied to CRELS to consider the ways in which statistical application to public health data is analogous and complementary to the ways we can consider data regarding criminal justice. For instance, one way I find statistics to be a powerful tool is how it can elucidate and ways that assumptions have been systematically built and enforced through erroneous, manipulative, and/or insidious ways of interpreting and communicating data.

As I enter the 4th year of my program, I've been studying methods to observe and describe data that don't...

Aldazia Green

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow, Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare

Aldazia Green is a PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her research interest centers on investigating the interactive effects of cognitive behavioral treatments and medications on psychiatric symptoms and the reduction of criminal behavior among justice-involved communities with severe mental illness. Through her commitment to both research and practice, she has gained experience in policy advocacy, program implementation, and computational analysis. As an emerging quantitative and critical scholar, Aldazia strives to improve mental health treatment and criminal justice...

Liza Lutzker

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Epidemiology, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Liza Lutzker is an Epidemiology PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Her research focuses on how traffic safety outcomes and disparities in the US are affected by current and historical institutions, policies and practices which embed biases against poor people or racially minoritized groups. Her current project examines the efficacy of traditional police traffic enforcement on preventing fatal and severe traffic collisions. Prior to pursuing a PhD, Liza worked broadly in the field of environmental and occupational epidemiology at the Massachusetts and California...

Kylee Hoffman

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology, Demography, UC Berkeley

Kylee Hoffman is a PhD student in Sociology and Demography at UC Berkeley. Her research broadly focuses on neighborhood change, socioeconomic and historical causes of health inequality, and the effects of gentrification and displacement. One of her current projects looks at air pollution exposure differentials among internal migrants in the US across racial and socioeconomic groups. Another project focuses on cohort imprinting effects in seasonal influenza mortality. In future research, she is interested in leveraging computational methods to capture complex demographic trends in large-...

Stephanie Veazie

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Epidemiology, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Stephanie Veazie is an Epidemiology PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her general research interests are understanding how social determinants of health drive disparities in maternal, child and adolescent health as well as mental health. She is currently researching trends in the proportion of adolescents who experienced adverse life events such as parental job loss and death of a family member before vs. after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether rates varied by racial/ethnic group and socioeconomic status. She also plans to examine how social adversity...