Directory

Stéfan van der Walt

Senior Research Data Scientist

Stéfan van der Walt is a researcher at BIDS. He is the founder of scikit-image and co-author of Elegant SciPy, and has been developing scientific open source software for two decades, focusing mainly on Python packages such as NumPy & SciPy.

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Esther Gomez

ERSO Research Administrator

Lilli Wessling Hart

Events and Communications Manager

Lilli Wessling Hart is a business operations and communications professional with over 25 years of experience. Before joining BIDS, she was a founding employee of a media technology company where she led meaningful experiences for international customers, business partners, students, and staff. She received her BA from University of Michigan.

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Tristan Chambers

CLEAN Data Architect

Tristan works with a diverse group of journalists, civil rights activists, criminal defense attorneys, and researchers of machine learning and AI technologies to collaborate on a shared data platform of police misconduct records.

Katherine S. Pollard

BIDS Research Affiliate
Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Director, Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

Katherine S. Pollard's lab develops statistical models and open source bioinformatics software for the analysis of massive genomic datasets.

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Heather A. Haveman

BIDS Faculty Council Member
Sociology, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Faculty Director, Master of Computational Social Science (MaCSS)

Heather A. Haveman's research interests include how organizations, the fields in which they are embedded, and the careers of their members and employees evolve. Her current work involves American magazines and wineries, Chinese listed firms, and the emerging marijuana market in several US states.

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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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Faculty and Research Affiliates

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...