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Adrian Hill

Assistant Dean, Interdisciplinary Initiatives
College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

Adrian Hill is assistant dean for interdisciplinary initiatives in the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. She joined CDSS with more than 15 years’ experience working to support academic research, most recently in the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research at Columbia University. In that role, she worked to bolster cross-campus research themes, including climate and precision medicine. She partnered with faculty leadership to develop the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and strengthen its ties with academic departments across the university. She...

Meareg Hailemariam

BIDS Graduate Fellow
Development Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Meareg Hailemariam is a master's student in Development Engineering at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. His research interests lie at the intersection of data analytics/machine learning and development issues. Currently, as part of his capstone project, he is working with the Potts Lab and fellow DevEng students on a research project that uses Meta Ads Reach estimates to track climate-driven seasonal migration in the case of Guatemala. He is also a Digital Transformation of Development fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Countries, UC Berkeley.

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Kyla Bourne

BIDS 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 Data Science Research Scholar, Dr. Bourne will collaboratively build a national database of police misconduct records under the mentorship of BIDS Faculty Affiliate, ...

Fernando Pérez

BIDS Faculty Director
Statistics, UC Berkeley; Data Science and Technology Division, LBNL
Associate Professor, Statistics, UC Berkeley Co-director, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment, UC Berkeley Faculty Scientist, Data Science and Technology Division, LBNL

Fernando Pérez is an Associate Professor of Statistics at UC Berkeley, a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the current Faculty Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at UC Berkeley (BIDS). His research focuses on the intersection of...

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.

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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.

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