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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...

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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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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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....

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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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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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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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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