Directory

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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Hany Farid

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
EECS, School of Information, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley
Associate Dean and Head of School, UC Berkeley School of Information Professor, EECS and School of Information, UC Berkeley Senior Faculty Advisor, Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

Hany Farid's research focuses on digital forensics, image analysis, and human perception.

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Niek Veldhuis

BIDS Faculty Council Member
Assyriology, Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
Professor, Assyriology, Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley CONNECT:

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Jae Sohn

BIDS Research Affiliate
Cardiothoracic Imaging, and Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF
Assistant Professor, UCSF

Jae Sohn is a cardiothoracic radiologist focusing on lung cancer imaging and intervention with emphasis on machine learning, radiological natural language processing, and clinical translation of 0.55T low-field lung MRI.

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Andreas Zoglauer

Alumni Council
Former BIDS Data Science Fellow

Andreas Zoglauer works at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory on COSI, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager, a NASA satellite to be launched in 2027. He is COSI's project scientist and leads the development of its science data operations center.

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Somayeh Sojoudi

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Somayeh Sojoudi works on interdisciplinary problems in optimization theory, control theory, machine learning, and power systems.

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Adam Yala

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Adam Yala's interests lie in the intersection of Machine Learning and Cancer Care. Adam's research focuses on designing modeling approaches that can capture the full complexity of biomedical data, are robust to data-generation biases, and offer safe-guards for clinical deployment.

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