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James Sethian

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Mathematics, UC Berkeley and LBNL
Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley Head, Mathematics Group, LBNL Director, Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA), LBNL Co-I for Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments

James Sethian's work is in computational physics, with particular emphasis on moving interface problems in fluid mechanics and materials science. Applications of the work of Sethian and his collaborators include computational models for combustion, fluid mixing, grain metal evolution, image processing, semiconductor manufacturing, industrial ink jet printing, materials informatics, tumor...

Uroš Seljak

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Physics, Astronomy, UC Berkeley and LBNL; Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics
Professor, Physics, University of California, Berkeley Professor, Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics

Uroš Seljak's research is in cosmology, where he combines theoretical, numerical, and data analysis methods to investigate the universe properties using cosmological observations, from cosmic microwave background to present day galaxy and dark matter distributions. His recent work combines statistics, numerical optimization, and N-body simulation methods to analyze...

Pamela Samuelson

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Berkeley Law School, Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley
Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley

Pamela Samuelson teaches copyright law and a course on regulating internet platforms. She teaches and writes extensively about challenges that digital technologies pose for legal regimes, particularly intellectual property laws, and about how existing laws can be adapted to meet those challenges.

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Alison E. Post

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Political Science, Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley
Associate Professor, Political Science and Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley

Alison E. Post's research lies at the intersection of comparative urban politics and comparative political economy, with regional emphases on Latin America and South Asia. It examines several related themes: regulation and business-government relations, decentralization, and the politics of urban policy more broadly.

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Katherine S. Pollard

BIDS Research Affiliate
Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Director, Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

Katherine S. Pollard's lab develops statistical models and open source bioinformatics software for the analysis of massive genomic datasets.

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Trond Petersen

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Social Sciences, Haas School of Business, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Associate Dean, Division of Social Sciences, Berkeley Haas School of Business Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Trond K. Petersen's research interests include social inequality and quantitative methods. He has investigated the role of employer discrimination in creating inequality in wages, hiring, and promotions between men and women, as well as the role of family adaptations in this. He draws on large-scale quantitative data from the U.S. and Scandinavia, including quantitative data on large firms.

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Aditya Parameswaran

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
School of Information, EECS, EPIC Data Lab, UC Berkeley
Associate Professor, I School and EECS, UC Berkeley Co-Director, EPIC Data Lab, UC Berkeley

Aditya Parameswaran's research interests focus on building tools for simplifying data science at scale, i.e., empowering individuals and teams to leverage and make sense of their large datasets more easily, efficiently, and effectively.

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Marisa Tsai

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

Marisa Tsai is a PhD student in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the effects of early life nutrition and the role of federal nutrition assistance programs in reducing health disparities, increasing food security, and improving dietary intake. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked on studies evaluating policy changes in school meals, healthy retail policies, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Marisa holds an MS and MPH in Food and Nutrition Policy and Programs from the Friedman School of Nutrition...

Ciera C. Martinez

Data Science for the Environment Lead

Ciera Martinez focuses on data intensive research projects that aim to understand how life on this planet evolves in reaction to the environment and climate – especially projects involving large and complex datasets. A long-time open science advocate, Ciera has been involved with and continues to be interested in working on training for open data, education, publishing, and software, including developing community standards for data management practices.

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Sharmila Majumdar

BIDS Research Affiliate
Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Orthopedic Surgery, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF Margaret Hart Surbeck Distinguished Professor in Advanced Imaging, UCSF Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, UCSF Professor, Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF Sharmila Majumdar's research work on imaging, particularly technology development and translational work in magnetic resonance (MR), µcomputed tomography, simultaneous positron emission tomography/MR, development of image processing, computer vision and machine and deep learning has been focused in the areas of...