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Neil Davies

BIDS Research Affiliate
Gump South Pacific Research Station, UC Berkeley
Executive Director, Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station

Neil Davies' research at BIDS focuses on sustainability science and how biodiversity genomics can contribute to a computational model of place - including the ‘datafication’ of whole social-ecological systems from genomes to society. To that end, he is lead PI of the Moorea Biocode Project, chair of the Genomic Observatories Network, and co-founder of the...

Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh

BIDS Research Affiliate
DOE Joint Genome Institute, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, LBNL
Metagenome Program Head, DOE Joint Genome Institute Staff Scientist, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, LBNL

Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh is a Staff Scientist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute and heads the Metagenome Program. Her research focuses on leveraging genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses.

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Chris Mungall

BIDS Research Affiliate
Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, LBNL
Staff Scientist and Head of the Biosystems Data Science Department, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Chris Mungall research focuses on combining knowledge-based methods and AI to investigate molecular mechanisms underpinning the health of humans and the health of the planet. He is a PI on the Gene Ontology (GO) project, and the Monarch Initiative, and metadata lead for the...

Rebecca Barter

BIDS Alumni
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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Eoin Brodie

BIDS Research Affiliate
Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, LBNL
Deputy Director, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, LBNL

Eoin Brodie is a microbiologist and biogeochemist who works from molecular to ecosystem scales. He uses technologies to reverse-engineer complex microbiomes in natural and managed ecosystems.

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Philip B. Stark

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Statistics, UC Berkeley
Distinguished Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley Co-I for Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments

Philip B. Stark's research centers on inference (inverse) problems and uncertainty quantification, especially confidence procedures tailored for specific goals. Applications include causal inference, the U.S. Census, climate modeling, cosmology, earthquake prediction and seismic hazard analysis, election auditing, endangered species, epidemiology, evaluating and improving teaching and educational technology, food web models, health effects of sodium, the geomagnetic field, geriatric hearing...

Bin Yu

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Statistics, EECS, Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley
Professor and Second Chair, Departments of Statistics and EECS, UC Berkeley Principal Investigator, Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley Weill Neurohub Investigator, UC Berkeley / UCSF/ UW

Bin Yu is engaged in interdisciplinary research with scientists from genomics, neuroscience, and medicine. In order to solve data problems in these domain areas, her group employs quantitative critical thinking and develops statistical and machine learning algorithms and theory.

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Jasjeet Sekhon

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Political Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley
Professor, Political Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley Co-PI for Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments

Jasjeet S. Sekhon's research focuses on methods for causal inference in observational and experimental studies and evaluating social science, public health and medical interventions. Professor Sekhon has done research on elections, voting behavior and public opinion in the United States, multivariate matching methods for causal inference, machine learning algorithms for irregular optimization problems, robust estimators with bounded influence functions, health economic cost...

Rachel Slaybaugh

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley

Rachel Slaybaugh researches computational methods applied to nuclear reactors, nuclear non-proliferation and security, and shielding. Dr. Slaybaugh is developing programs to train and inspire the next generation to innovate in clean energy, including the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp, and also focuses on improving transparency and reproducibility in computational science and scientific publication.

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Sameer B. Srivastava

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Haas School of Business, Sociology, Computational Culture Lab, Berkeley Culture Initiative, UC Berkeley
Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy and Values, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Ewald T. Grether Chair in Business Administration and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Co-Director, Computational Culture Lab, UC Berkeley Co-Director, Berkeley Culture Initiative, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Sameer B. Srivastava's research unpacks the complex interrelationships among the culture of social groups, the cognition of individuals within these groups, and the connections...