Founding Executive Director and Principal Investigator
Dr. Claudia Natalia von Vacano is the Founding Executive Director and Senior Research Associate of UC Berkeley’s Social Sciences Data Laboratory (D-Lab), including the Berkeley Federal Statistical Research Data Center. Her work advances interdisciplinary approaches to computational research, data science education, digital humanities, and trustworthy AI.
At D-Lab, Dr. von Vacano leads programs that support computational and data-intensive research through training, consultations, working groups, courses, and cross-campus collaboration....
Research Fellow, Digital Health Social Justice Project Lead
School of Social Welfare
Digital Health Social Justice
Caroline Figueroa, MD Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare. She obtained her MD degree and Ph.D. degree at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. research took place at the University of Amsterdam and at the University of Oxford, where she studied cognitive and neurobiological vulnerability factors for recurrence of depression in patients remitted from Major Depressive Disorder. Current research interest is on digital interventions for depression, with an emphasis on developing cutting-edge innovations that tailor to the needs of...
Chris Kennedy is a postdoctoral fellow in biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School, focusing on deep learning and causal inference in Gabriel Brat’s surgical informatics lab. He has a Ph.D. in biostatistics from UC Berkeley where he worked with Alan Hubbard and Mark van der Laan...
