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Gabriela Paredes

Data Science for Social Justice Fellow 2024
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Gabriela is a second-year PhD student in the Geosystem program at UC Berkeley's Civil Engineering Department with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies, working under the guidance of Professor Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos.

Her research explores infrastructure resilience and social vulnerability, focusing on how climate change impacts urban areas and affects marginalized communities. She integrates engineering solutions with social justice perspectives to enhance urban resilience and equity.

Nicole Cedillo

Data Science for Social Justice Fellow 2024

Valentina Flores

Data Science for Social Justice Fellow 2024
Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence and Social Policy Ph.D. Program

Valentina Flores is a first-year graduate student at Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) Ph.D. Program. They hold a joint Political Science and Human Rights Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree from Bard College. Before JSP, Valentina worked at various criminal justice nonprofits, most notably as an editorial Fellow for PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing program.

Valentina has written about how practices of punishment and surveillance erode the civil rights of the formerly incarcerated and is broadly interested in spatial racism,...

Taylor Galdi

Data Science for Social Justice Fellow 2024
Law (JSP)
Sociology
Social Psychology

Taylor is a dual JD/Ph.D. student in Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. Broadly, she is interested in studying courts, social movements and social change, and the legal profession.

Kai Hsu

Data Science for Social Justice Fellow 2024
City and Regional Planning

Kai is a PhD candidate in UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning, whose research interests lie at the intersection of transportation planning, environmental exposure, and health equity. He holds a BS in Urban Planning from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and a MSc in Transport from Imperial College London and University College London.

His current research projects look at the association between heat exposure and road safety risks, with a particular focus on food-delivery motorcyclists.

Elizabeth Fajardo

Data Science for Social Justice Fellow 2024
Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology

I am a PhD Student in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. I study the Roman Imperial Economy, particularly the development of human capital during the Imperial Period and the Roman monetary system.

My main research interests include political economy, labor, and economic metaphor in Ancient Rome, particularly highlighting the intersections of economic production and power.

Hugh Kadhem

Mathematics

Hugh Kadhem is a Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics, with broad research interests in computational quantum physics and high-performance scientific computing.

Sophie Ruehr

Consultant
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Sophie is interested in water and carbon cycling at local, regional and global scales. She uses remote sensing and eddy co-variance data to resolve land-atmosphere dynamics resulting from groundwater use and climate change. Having worked as a reporter and oral historian, she is also interested in human perceptions of environmental change, especially when these differ from scientific findings.

Creating the Ultimate Sweet

January 30, 2024
Emma Turtelboom
by Emma Turtelboom. What is the best Halloween candy? In this blog post, we will identify attributes of popular sweets and create a model to understand how these attributes influence the popularity of the sweet. We’ll discuss alternative model approaches and potential drawbacks, as well as caveats to interpreting the predictions of our model.

Reine Ngnonsse

IUSE Undergraduate Advisory Board
Genetics and Plant Biology

Reine Ngnonsse, an enthusiast for math and technology, delved into tutoring math at a community college through the EOPs program. At UC Berkeley, while pursuing Genetics and Plant Biology, She explored R programming in a CRISPR project. As an intern at Health Career Connection, Reine expanded coding skills in Python, R, and Tableau, igniting a passion for programming. With exposure to Python and Javascript, she can't wait to merge mathematical prowess with coding finesse for innovative solutions.