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Omair Gill

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Omair is a PhD student at the Goldman School of Public Policy. His current research focuses on the impacts of California’s Three-Strikes law and free prison communications. Prior to starting his PhD, Omair was a research associate at the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley, where he worked on projects related to prison sentencing and criminal law. Omair holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UC Davis.

Sequoia Rose Andrade

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

Sequoia is a PhD student in the statistics department at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining Berkeley, she worked as a Research Engineer contractor at NASA and focused on wildfire safety related research. She holds a B.S. in mathematics and psychology from Santa Clara University, M.S. in statistical data science from San Francisco State University, and is an awardee of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. She is passionate about applying computational methods to complex and impactful real-world problems, with a focus on social good applications.

Peter Forberg

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

Peter Forberg is a PhD student in Sociology at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the connections between digital technology, the administrative state, and political movements. In particular, he is interested in how political actors are using technology to reshape contemporary knowledge and enact their political visions. Prior to entering graduate school, Peter conducted independent research on the political conspiracy group QAnon. In future research, he hopes to combine the methods of computational data science with those of qualitative content analysis and participant observation....

Arisa Sadeghpour

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

Arisa Sadeghpour is a third-year PhD student in Statistics advised by Dr. Erin Hartman. She is interested in developing statistical methods, specifically in causal inference, for social science applications. Previously, she graduated from Rice University with a degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics and was a fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Taylor Galdi

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

Taylor Galdi is a JD/PhD student in Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. Her research focuses on courts, social movements and social change, and the legal profession. Prior to starting her PhD, Taylor worked as a Mitigation Specialist at the Center for Community Alternatives and as a Lab Manager at the University of Michigan Law School. Taylor holds an MFA in Literary Nonfiction Writing from Eastern Washington University and a BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Rebecca Barter

Alumni Council
Former BIDS Data Science Fellow
University of Utah

Rebecca Barter is a statistician, data scientist, educator, and communicator who has a dual passion for empowering others by teaching critical thinking and technical skills for data science, and for uncovering the hidden patterns and stories that live inside complex datasets (primarily related to healthcare and medicine). Barter is working on making healthcare data more accessible, developing data science curriculum, and teaching data science to clinical researchers.

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Tim Tangherlini

BIDS Associate Faculty Director
Department of Scandinavian, UC Berkeley

Tim Tangherlini is interested in the circulation of stories on and across social networks, and the ways in which stories are used by individuals in their ongoing negotiation of ideology with the groups to which they belong. In general, his work focuses on computational approaches to problems in the study of folklore, literature and culture.

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Karthik Ram

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...

Meryem Essaidi

BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar (Responsible AI)

As a BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar focusing on responsible AI, Meryem Essaidi will be working with UC Berkeley professors Rediet Abebe (EECS) and Tolani Britton (School of Education). She is currently completing a PhD in Computer Science at Princeton University, and previously completed a dual MSE and BSE in computer science at UPenn. Her research is in the areas of algorithms, algorithmic game theory,...

Anubhav Jain

BIDS Research Affiliate
Energy Technologies Area, LBNL
Staff Scientist, Energy Storage & Distributed Resources, LBNL

Anubhav Jain leads a research group studying new materials design using a mix of theory, computing, and artificial intelligence. Jain develops, evaluates, and applies models for predicting materials properties to applications such as electrocatalysis, thermoelectrics, solar photovoltaics, energy storage, and more. He is involved in robotic synthesis of new materials at LBNL's "A-lab", is the Associate Director of LBNL's Materials Project initiative, and is...