I'm a third-year PhD Student in the Systems Engineering program at UC Berkeley's Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. My research interests lie in network science and urban mobility, with a focus on deriving system-level insights from observed mobility patterns. My work spans topics including the modeling of spreading dynamics on networks and the role of social networks in mobility-based behavioral responses to disasters. I enjoy working on problems involving large-scale data analysis, optimization, modeling, and simulation, with the aim of advancing our...
Citlali is a PhD student in Demography interested in how families form under pressure, what holds them together, and what gets carried forward to the next generation. Prior to population research, she worked as a software engineer and data scientist in San Francisco, NYC, and Sierra Leone, and taught math and programming in various settings globally. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT, an M.S. in Data Science from the University of Helsinki, and most recently completed the European Doctoral School of Demography, co-hosted between the Max Planck...
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology. My research focuses on plants and lichens, although I am broadly interested in biodiversity. I use systematics, statistical modeling, and fieldwork to better understand ecological patterns, including how trees respond to climate change. Prior to graduate school, I studied English and ecology at Bates College in Maine.
Deibi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, centering critical interdisciplinary ecology and multispecies justice. Deibi coined the term "Cryptonocene," an interdisciplinary framework, to study the socio-environmental health impacts of cryptocurrencies and related technologies, such as AI. With over two years of experience as a graduate instructor, Deibi now is a Graduate Student Researcher, NSF Digital Transformation Fellow, and Mentored Research Fellow. Before joining Berkeley, Deibi was the project manager for an interdisciplinary team...
Lucas is a PhD student in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. His research spans development economics, industrial organization, and applied econometrics, with a focus on using large-scale administrative, geospatial, and trajectory data to study technology, markets, and public policy. His work combines causal inference and machine learning, and he also has a strong foundation in neural networks and AI agent development. Prior to Berkeley, he was a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Chicago. He has teaching experience in microeconomics, econometrics...
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Liz is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her research interests span control theory, formal methods, statistical learning, and robotics. Specifically, she studies how to quantify and understand the behavior and uncertainty of complex systems to enable safe, automated decision making. Prior to UC Berkeley, she received a Bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, Bloomington in Computer Science.
Jiangyu is a Ph.D. student in UC Berkeley’s Comparative Biochemistry Program with affiliation to Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). His research interests mainly cover the biological wet-lab methods and their coordination with computational biology and bioinformatics, in the context of biochemical processes or microbial platforms in biomass depolymerization workflows. His past experiences spanned applications of biological ML/DL models, high-throughput multi-omics sequencing analysis pipelines, metabolic pathway engineering techniques, etc.....
Noah Macey is a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the acoustics, perception, and production of speech. He is especially interested in how machine learning systems represent and manipulate speech, and how their representations resemble and diverge from human perception. Noah received his BA in Linguistics from Yale University.
Riley VanMeter is a PhD Candidate in Romance Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research investigates computational, experimental, and corpus methods in researching grammatical change. Additional work spans alignment in machine translation and the evaluation of multilingual large language models. His dissertation examines integrative approaches to grammaticalization and grammatical change across Romance varieties, bringing together cognitive, computational, and sociolinguistic perspectives, with a focus on Spanish and Italian varieties. He holds an...
Shreya is a doctoral candidate in Learning Sciences and Human Development at the UC Berkeley School of Education. She studies the design, implementation, and evaluation of AI-assisted technologies in higher education. She uses mixed methods to investigate how instructors, administrators, and researchers can support student learning outcomes and upward mobility in degree completion.
