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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
Distinguished Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley Co-I for Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments
Philip B. Stark's research centers on inference (inverse) problems and uncertainty quantification, especially confidence procedures tailored for specific goals. Applications include causal inference, the U.S. Census, climate modeling, cosmology, earthquake prediction and seismic hazard analysis, election auditing, endangered species, epidemiology, evaluating and improving teaching and educational technology, food web models, health effects of sodium, the geomagnetic field, geriatric hearing...
Tim Thomas is a professional researcher and research director at Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project (UDP) specializing in urban sociology, demography, and data science. His research focuses on how neighborhood change, housing disparities, policies, and displacement affects household socioeconomic stratification and mobility by race and gender in the United States. His research at the UDP centers on developing open-source tools to measure displacement and gentrification as well as a national housing precarity risk model...
Berkeley Law School, Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley School of Law Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Faculty Steering Committee Member; Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public; UC Berkeley
Rebecca Wexler teaches, researches, and writes on issues concerning data, technology, and criminal justice. Her work has focused on evidence law, criminal procedure, privacy, and intellectual property protections surrounding new data-driven criminal justice technologies.
