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Monica De La Cruz

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Monica De La Cruz is a PhD student in the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare. She holds an MPH from the University of San Francisco and a BS from San Francisco State University. Her research interests focus on ways to ameliorate economic inequality as a means to positively impact children’s health, specifically for communities of color. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was the Program Manager for the Pediatric Advocacy Program at the Stanford School of Medicine. While at Stanford, Monica worked on an interdisciplinary team examining the impact of local interventions on addressing basic...

Madeline Adee

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

Madeline Adee is a Health Policy PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, with a specialization in Population Health and Data Science. Her research focuses on improving public health interventions and healthcare for people involved in the criminal justice system. She is also interested in the implementation process of prison reform programs and policies, including decarceration, and how these efforts can improve health and reduce health disparities. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked on studies assessing the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of different hepatitis C...

Alagia Cirolia

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Alagia Justice Cirolia is a combined MSW/PhD student in UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Their research interests center on improving school equity through the implementation of school-based mental health and wellness programs serving marginalized youth & families, particularly through research-practice partnerships. In addition, Cirolia hones their clinical interests in trauma-informed care and school social work. Cirolia holds a BA in Cognitive Science with High Honors from UC Berkeley. With support from their faculty mentor, Dr. Valerie Shapiro, Cirolia aims to conduct...

Caitlin Chan

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

Caitlin Chan is a PhD student in the division of epidemiology at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, under the mentorship of Dr. Jennifer Ahern. Her research seeks to explore the epidemiological underpinnings of transmission of trauma through communities by untangling the relationships between violence, trauma, economic adversity, and institutional marginalization. She is particularly interested in understanding who is most likely to be missing from conventional sources of epidemiological data on violence, and how to improve public health surveillance of these vulnerable individuals....

Benjamin Fields

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology, UC Berkeley

Benjamin Fields is a PhD student in the sociology department at the University of California, Berkeley. A health-oriented social scientist, he wants to focus his research on a social understanding of diet and its relationship to well-being, looking beyond the physiological definition of food towards one that includes social, cultural, political, and economic considerations.

Daniela Ushizima

BIDS Research Affiliate
Applied Mathematics and Computational Research, CAMERA, LBNL
Staff Scientist, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division, LBNL Computer Vision Team Lead, Center of Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA), LBNL

Daniela Ushizima leads the Center for Recognition and Inspection of Cells (CRIC), where her research focuses on imaging cancer cells for early-stage disease diagnosis. With 20 years of research and development experience in Computer Vision, Ushizima has focused primarily on quantitative microscopy and microstructure classification, from...

Peter Nugent

BIDS Research Affiliate
Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division, LBNL; Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Senior Scientist and Division Deputy for Science Engagement, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Adjunct Professor, Astronomy, UC Berkeley

Peter Nugent co-founded the Computational Cosmology Center and became their first group leader. He was promoted to senior staff scientist at LBNL in 2010 and the same year joined the faculty in the Astronomy Department at UC Berkeley. In 2014, he became the division deputy for scientific engagement in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ...

Simon Roux

BIDS Research Affiliate
DOE Joint Genome Institute, LBNL
Research Scientist, DOE Joint Genome Institute, LBNL

At the DOE Joint Genome Institute, Simon Roux leads the Viral Genomics group, which explores viruses of microbes and their impacts on ecosystems using (mostly) fancy ‘omics tools. Current projects include the study of viral diversity and virus: host interactions in soil and freshwater environments, along with the development of new bioinformatics tools and experimental protocols to probe and characterize uncultivated viruses. Roux's group also assist users of the JGI Metagenome Program with their analysis, including identification of...

Benjamin Nachman

BIDS Research Affiliate
Physics, LBNL
Staff Scientist, Physics Division, LBNL

Benjamin Nachman is the group leader of the cross-cutting Machine Learning for Fundamental Physics group. Nachman develops, adapts, and deploys machine learning algorithms to enhance data analysis in high energy physics. He is a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN.

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Charuleka Varadharajan

BIDS Research Affiliate
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Earth AI & Data, LBNL
Research Scientist, Energy Geosciences Division, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, LBNL Research Lead, Earth AI & Data Program, LBNL

Charuleka Varadharajan is interested in studying the nexus of carbon, water, and energy with a focus on understanding and limiting the impacts of human activities on water quality and climate. Her research involves the monitoring and mitigation of contaminants in water resources; the measurement and prediction of carbon fluxes in terrestrial and subsurface environments; and the management, synthesis, and analysis of diverse multi-...