Chair, Department of History, UC Berkeley Co-I for Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments
Cathryn Carson's research deals with the intellectual, political, and institutional history of contemporary science, including theoretical physics and data science.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley
Sarah E. Chasins joined the EECS faculty in 2020. Her research focuses on programming languages and program synthesis, with an emphasis on work that brings together programming systems, HCI, and data. Much of her work is shaped by collaborations with scientists, social scientists, and other non-traditional programmers.
Avi Feller is an Associate Professor at Public Policy at the Goldman School of UC Berkeley. He works at the intersection of public policy, data science, and statistics. His methodological research centers on learning more from social policy evaluations. His applied research focuses on working with governments on using data to design, implement, and evaluate policies. Prior to his doctoral studies, Feller served as Special Assistant to the Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget and worked at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Feller received a Ph.D. in...
Marion Fourcade is Professor of Sociology and Director of Social Science Matrix at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s (Princeton University Press, 2009) and numerous articles on valuation, knowledge, and politics in comparative perspective. A second book, The Ordinal Society (with Kieran Healy, Harvard University Press 2024), describes the social and economic consequences of a new regime of knowledge that sees and scales people by way...
Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. One of principal investigators on a National Justice Database of police stops and use of force incidents. Board of Directors of the Center for Policing Equity; California’s Peace Officer Standards Accountability Advisory Board
Associate 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.
Amy E. Lerman is a Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and Director of the Possibility Lab at UC Berkeley. Amy E. Lerman is a political scientist who studies issues of race, public opinion, and political behavior, especially as they relate to punishment and social inequality in America. She is the author of two books on the American criminal justice system—The Modern Prison Paradox and Arresting Citizenship (awarded a best book award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association). Her most recent book, Good Enough for Government Work (awarded both the...
Jeffrey Lockhart is a sociologist of science and technology. His work examines the relationship between the technical workings of systems and our understandings of the world. Lockhart uses large scale computational social science methods to study the production and development of science, as well as qualitative, archival, and technographic approaches to understand how people use and think about technology.
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.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley
Emma Pierson is an assistant professor of computer science, affiliated with the Berkeley AI Research Lab, Computational Precision Health, and the Center for Human-Compatible AI. Her work develops machine learning methods for the health and social sciences, focusing in particular on reducing inequality and improving healthcare and public health.
