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Maya Petersen

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public Health, Computational Social Science, Computational Precision Health, Center for Targeted Machine Learning and Causal Inference
Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Berkeley Public Health Co-Director, Berkeley Computational Social Science Training Program (NIH) Co-Director, Joint Program in Computational Precision Health Co-Director, Center for Targeted Machine Learning and Causal Inference Maya Petersen’s methodological research focuses on the development and application of novel causal inference methods to problems in health, with an emphasis on longitudinal data and adaptive treatment strategies (dynamic regimes), machine learning methods, and study design and analytic strategies for impact evaluation....

Erin M. Kerrison

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Erin M. Kerrison's work extends from a legal epidemiological framework, wherein law and legal institutions operate as structural determinants of health. Specifically, through varied agency partnerships, her mixed-method research agenda investigates the impact that compounded structural disadvantage, concentrated poverty and state supervision has on service delivery, substance misuse, violence, and other health outcomes for individuals and communities marked by criminal legal system intervention.

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Joseph Hellerstein

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley
Jim Gray Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

Joseph M. Hellerstein's work focuses on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing. Hellerstein is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Trifacta, a software vendor providing intelligent interactive solutions to the messy problem of wrangling data.

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Daniel Kam­men

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Energy and Resources Group, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Professor and Chair, Energy and Resources Group Founding Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) Director, Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP), Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Chair in Sustainability, Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley Senior Adviser for Energy, Climate and Innovation, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Daniel Kam­men is an expert on energy systems and the science and policy behind climate solutions. Kammen has served as a contributing or...

David Holtz

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Berkeley Haas School of Business

David Holtz studies the design of online marketplaces and platforms using large-scale online field experiments and novel digital trace data. His research agenda focuses on online trust and reputation system design, the business and societal impacts of personalized recommendations, and the design and analysis of field experiments in online marketplaces.

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Neil Fligstein

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Sociology, UC Berkeley
Class of 1939 Chancellor’s Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Neil Fligstein has made research contributions to the fields of economic sociology, organizational theory, political sociology and social stratification. He is the author of seven books including The Transformation of Corporate Control (Harvard University Press, 1993) and A Theory of Fields (with Doug McAdam, Oxford University Press, 2012). His newest book, The Banks Did It (Harvard University Press, 2021) is a study of the causes of the financial crisis of 2007-2009.

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Lisa García Bedolla

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division Professor, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley

Lisa García Bedolla uses the tools of social science to reveal the causes of political and economic inequalities in the United States, considering differences across the lines of ethnorace, gender, class, geography, sexuality, et cetera. She has used a variety of social science methods – participant observation, in-depth interviewing, survey research, field experiments, and geographic information systems (GIS) – to shed light on this question.

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Joshua S. Bloom

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Professor, Astronomy, UC Berkeley

Josh Bloom teaches high-energy astrophysics, Python bootcamps, and a graduate-level class on Python for data-driven science. He has published more than 250 refereed articles, largely on time-domain transients events and telescope/insight automation.

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Tim Thomas

Research Training Lead, Berkeley Computational Social Science Training Program
Urban Displacement Project, UC Berkeley

Tim Thomas is a professional researcher and research director at Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project (UDP) specializing in urban sociology, demography, and data science. His research focuses on how neighborhood change, housing disparities, policies, and displacement affects household socioeconomic stratification and mobility by race and gender in the United States. His research at the UDP centers on developing open-source tools to measure displacement and gentrification as well as a national housing precarity risk model...

Rediet Abebe

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UC Berkeley Co-founder, Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) Co-founder, Black in AI

Rediet Abebe is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Junior Fellow (2019-22) at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Abebe holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University and graduate degrees in mathematics from Harvard University and the University of Cambridge.

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