UC REGENTS - Key Persons
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- Deputy Director of D - Lab Cyberinfrastructure Architect and Consulting Lead
- Staff Member at the D - Lab
Aaron Culich is a staff member at the D-Lab with expertise in Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC), Databases (SQL and NoSQL), JupyterHub and BinderHub infrastructure, and a variety of programming languages (Python, R, Java, C, C++, and more). His ongoing mission is to explore new compute possibilities, discovering useful tools and practices, and making them more accessible to researchers on campus and beyond.
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- Social Science Fellow
- Student in the Division
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. Her previous and ongoing research includes projects on gender-based violence, PTSD, early childhood development, abortion access, homelessness, and racialized violence. She has experience in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and prior to entering academia, was a community health navigator and advocate. Chan holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, and an S.M. in Epidemiology from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
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- Social Science Fellow
- Student in the Department of Sociology
Daniel Lobo is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology with an emphasis in Political Economy at UC Berkeley. He is broadly interested in how culture, or the unspoken "rules of the game," reproduces inequality within a system of racial capitalism. At the individual level, he is interested in documenting and measuring the extent to which cultural capital and social capital enable or constrain opportunities for intergenerational mobility. At the organizational level, he is interested in documenting and measuring the extent to which culturally-based selection and promotion processes reproduce inequality and social closure in the education and labor markets. He is trained in social theory, qualitative methods, computational social science, hierarchical linear modeling, and full cycle experimental methods. Daniel holds a BA in Social Studies, with high honors, from Harvard College.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Demography
- Demography & Faculty Director, Social Sciences D - Lab
Dennis Feehan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Demography at the UC, Berkeley. He is a demographer and quantitative social scientist. His research interests lie at the intersection of social networks, demography, and quantitative methodology. In the summer of 2015, he finished his Ph.D. at Princeton's Office of Population Research, and he spent the fall of 2015 as a Research Scientist at Facebook.
Job Titles:
- Founding Executive Director and Senior Research Associate of D - Lab and Digital Humanities at Berkeley
- Founding Executive Director, Sr. Research Associate, P.I
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- Computational Social Science Fellow / Sociology / Demography
- Student in the Sociology and Demography
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. Breen also works on a research team led by Professors Amy Kate Bailey, Michael Kramer, and Margaret Hicken, studying the impact of historical racialized violence on contemporary maternal health outcomes in eleven southern US states.
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- Computational Social Science Fellow / Epidemiology / School of Public Health
- Student in the Division of Epidemiology
Elleni Hailu is a PhD student in the Division of Epidemiology at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. Her interests are in addressing the ways in which place-based markers of structural racism (ex. mass incarceration) are biologically embedded across the lifecourse to influence racial inequities in cardiovascular and adverse maternal health outcomes. She aims to employ interdisciplinary theories and biopsychosocial frameworks along with robust and novel data analytic methods to conduct research that informs policies intended to dismantle processes that maintain the cycle of health inequities. Her current work examines multi-level stressors and structural factors that shape the disproportionate burden of adverse health outcomes among racially/ethnically marginalized populations in multi-center and intergenerational cohorts. She holds a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology/Biostatistics from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health Sciences from Santa Clara University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Data Science Fellow, Senior Instructor, Senior Consultant
James Hall is a graduate student in the Statistics MA program at University of California, Berkeley. He is a husband and father to three awesome kids. Originally from Baltimore, MD, James earned his bachelors in Mathematics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY in 2011, and served as a U.S. Army officer. He's served as a leader at multiple levels within large organizations with a professional focus on visualizing and communicating complex analysis to decision makers. James' experience and coursework give him expertise in navigating different statistical methods, implementing them with code, and interpreting their results.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society Dean of the School of Information
Jennifer Chayes is Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, and Dean of the School of Information. She is a Professor of EECS, Mathematics, Statistics, and the School of Information. Before joining Berkeley, she was at Microsoft for over 20 years, where she was a Technical Fellow, and founder and managing director of three interdisciplinary labs: Microsoft Research New England, New York City, and Montreal. Chayes has received numerous awards for both leadership and scientific contributions, including the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Leadership Award, the John von Neumann Award of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and an honorary doctorate from Leiden University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
Jessie Harney is a PhD candidate and Graduate Student Researcher at the Goldman School of Public Policy. Her research interests are in criminal justice system reform with a specific focus on mental health and improving outcomes for those whose lives are impacted by the carceral system. She holds degrees in Psychology (BS) from Truman State University, Biostatistics (MS) from Washington University in St. Louis, and Public Policy (MPP) from the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy.
Job Titles:
- Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Vice Chancellor for Research Office
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- Computational Social Science Fellow / School of Public Health
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- Computational Social Science Fellow / Health Policy / School of Public Health
Mango Jane Angar is a Political Science Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on Political Violence and Disability Politics. In particular, she examines how state institutions, society, and disabled persons organizations conceptualize and define disability.
Job Titles:
- Senior Data Science Fellow
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- Computational Social Science Fellow / Social Welfare
Job Titles:
- Data Scientist, Senior Consultant, and Senior Instructor / Physics
Job Titles:
- Professor and Dean, Social Sciences
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- Data Services Manager, Senior Instructor, Senior Consultant, Co - Executive Director of Berkeley FSRDC
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- Academic Program Manager III, Consultant / Department of City and Regional Planning
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Data Science for Social Justice Fellow 2023
Job Titles:
- Data Scientist, Senior Consultant, and Senior Instructor
Ángel Ross is currently a PhD student in sociology with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies. He conducts research at the intersection of (sub)urban sociology, race and inequality, housing, and policing. Their current project empirically tests evidence of racial threat and renter threat in California suburbs with a focus on communities on the receiving end of gentrification and displacement from the coastal urban core. Before pursuing a PhD, they received a Master of City Planning from the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley and BAs in sociology and economics from the University of Southern California. They previously worked as a senior research associate at PolicyLink based in Oakland, California. In his spare time before COVID-19, Ángel enjoyed playing drums with a rockabilly/soul band and a queer electronic group.