Founding Executive Director, P.I., Research Director, FSRDC
Dr. Claudia von Vacano is the Founding Executive Director and Senior Research Associate of D-Lab and Digital Humanities at Berkeley and is on the boards of the Social Science Matrix and Berkeley Center for New Media. She has worked in policy and educational administration since 2000, and at the UC Office of the President and UC Berkeley since 2008. She received a Master’s degree from Stanford University in Learning, Design, and Technology. Her doctorate is in Policy, Organizations, Measurement, and Evaluation from UC Berkeley. Her expertise is in organizational theory and...
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...
