Directory

David Minh-Duy Cao

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

David Minh-Duy Cao is a first-year PhD student in Computer Science. His research work aims to engage the intersection between computing and social justice, designing computing and programming tools to reify just futures and empower minoritized communities towards self-determination. Prior to beginning his PhD, he received majors in Computer Science (B.S.) and Ethnic Studies (B.A.) from UC San Diego. His current computing interests draw from his prior research work, which focused on using program synthesis and programming languages research to improve programming accessibility. He has...

Jonathan Landeros-Cisneros

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Education, Critical Studies UC Berkeley

Joni Landeros-Cisneros is a Ph.D. student in Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Master of Anthropology and a BS in Anthropology from Iowa State University. Additionally, he has contributed to academia by instructing courses with critical and decolonial frameworks in the fields of education and Spanish language learning. His research portfolio spans interdisciplinary quantitative and qualitative methods, with a focus on critical social issues such as whiteness in pedagogical content, carceral humanitarianism in K-12, and targeted racialized policing in...

Neena Albarus

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

Neena Albarus is a Ph.D. student in Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a Master of Social Work from The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Additionally, she has contributed to academia by instructing courses in the field of social work. Her research portfolio spans quantitative, qualitative, and participatory methods, with a focus on critical social issues such as substance use, mental health, and social violence in Jamaica. She is interested in integrating computational tools for social justice advancement.

Sandrine Dudoit

BIDS Faculty Council Member
Statistics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Associate Dean, Faculty and Research, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, UC Berkeley Professor, Statistics, UC Berkeley Professor, Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley Principal Investigator, Berkeley Center for Computational Biology

Annette Gailliot

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology, UC Berkeley

Annette Gailliot is a Sociology PhD student at UC Berkeley, with a specialization in Political Economy. Her research focuses on how technology is changing work-based inequalities and regulations. Combining historical and quantitative methods, she is particularly interested in understanding how barriers to social welfare access affect health outcomes. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked on The Shift Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, studying how unpredictable scheduling affects wellbeing and health for low-wage service sector workers. Gailliot holds dual Bachelors of Science in...

Alex Schulte

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

Alex Schulte is a Health Policy PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the role of social and organizational networks in improving equitable access to healthcare, in particular sexual and reproductive healthcare. Alex is interested in leveraging computational social science methods, such as causal inference and machine learning, to address complex research questions with the goal of improving health equity. Prior to starting her PhD, Alex led sexual and reproductive health programming at the Deloitte Health Equity Institute in New York City. She...

Elizabeth Breen

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology, Demography, UC Berkeley

Elizabeth Breen is a PhD student in the Sociology and Demography departments at UC Berkeley. Her research interests center on the social and historical determinants of human health, particularly the distribution and repercussions of infectious disease. Her current project examines the internalization of neoliberal economic ideology and its effects on workers’ fundamental social ties, like those to family, friends, and broader communities, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Breen's faculty mentors at UC Berkeley are Professors Christopher Muller and Laura Enriquez....

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.