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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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Neena Albarus

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

Neena Albarus is a Ph.D. student in Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a Master of Social Work from The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Additionally, she has contributed to academia by instructing courses in the field of social work. Her research portfolio spans quantitative, qualitative, and participatory methods, with a focus on critical social issues such as substance use, mental health, and social violence in Jamaica. She is interested in integrating computational tools for social justice advancement.

Karthik Ram

BIDS Senior Research Data Scientist and rOpenSci Founder & Director

Karthik Ram’s interests are focused on reproducible research, especially as it applies to global change. Much of his recent work focuses on building tools and services around open data and growing diverse data science communities. He contributes regularly to various projects including Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry, and occasional blogs at Inundata. He leads rOpenSci...

Ángel Mendiola Ross

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow, Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Sociology, UC Berkeley

Ángel Mendiola Ross is a PhD candidate in sociology with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies. He conducts research at the intersection of (sub)urban sociology, race and inequality, housing, and policing. Their current project examines land use policies and law enforcement practices in newer, fast-growing suburbs to better understand contemporary drivers of segregation in the post-civil rights era. Their past work empirically tested evidence of racial threat and renter threat in California suburbs with a focus on communities on the receiving end of gentrification and...

Luyi Jian

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

Luyi Jian is currently a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her research is
situated within the juvenile and criminal legal systems, focusing on intervention strategies at
the individual level and policy evaluation at the systemic level. Her dissertation explores a
strength-based, innovative intervention that aims to translate the largely abstract Positive
Youth Justice paradigm into real application. Specifically, she explores the extent to which
justice-involved youth develop a prosocial identity or sense of self, and tests the conditions
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Amanda Glazer

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

Amanda Glazer is currently a Statistics PhD candidate. Her research focuses on nonparametric methods, with an emphasis on expanding the theory and proper use of permutation tests in social good applications. She has a wide range of applied interests including education, sports and criminal justice. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Amanda earned her BA in mathematics and statistics, with a minor in computer science, from Harvard.

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Sandrine Dudoit

BIDS Faculty Council Member
Statistics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Associate Dean, Faculty and Research, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, UC Berkeley Professor, Statistics, UC Berkeley Professor, Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley Principal Investigator, Berkeley Center for Computational Biology

Annette Gailliot

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology, UC Berkeley

Annette Gailliot is a Sociology PhD student at UC Berkeley, with a specialization in Political Economy. Her research focuses on how technology is changing work-based inequalities and regulations. Combining historical and quantitative methods, she is particularly interested in understanding how barriers to social welfare access affect health outcomes. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked on The Shift Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, studying how unpredictable scheduling affects wellbeing and health for low-wage service sector workers. Gailliot holds dual Bachelors of Science in...

Alex Schulte

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

Alex Schulte is a Health Policy PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the role of social and organizational networks in improving equitable access to healthcare, in particular sexual and reproductive healthcare. Alex is interested in leveraging computational social science methods, such as causal inference and machine learning, to address complex research questions with the goal of improving health equity. Prior to starting her PhD, Alex led sexual and reproductive health programming at the Deloitte Health Equity Institute in New York City. She...

Elizabeth Breen

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology, Demography, UC Berkeley

Elizabeth Breen is a PhD student in the Sociology and Demography departments at UC Berkeley. Her research interests center on the social and historical determinants of human health, particularly the distribution and repercussions of infectious disease. Her current project examines the internalization of neoliberal economic ideology and its effects on workers’ fundamental social ties, like those to family, friends, and broader communities, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Breen's faculty mentors at UC Berkeley are Professors Christopher Muller and Laura Enriquez....