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Kanchana Samala

IUSE Undergraduate Advisory Board
Data Science

Kanchana Samala (she/her) is a third year studying Data Science and pursuing the CalTeach Minor. She is currently a uGSI for Data 8 and facilitates the 'Step Out of Overdrive' Decal about understanding the link between stress and human expression. She is curious and passionate about extracting value from big data in a way that will bring joy into people's lives.

Yiyi He

Consultant
Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

Yiyi He is a Ph.D. candidate from the College of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley. She received her bachelor’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Nanjing University and her master’s degree in Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley. She is currently working as an AI Resident at GoogleX. Prior to this, she worked as a consultant for the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery at the World Bank and a researcher for the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management and Federal Aviation Administration Consortium in Aviation Operations Research. Her...

Siddharth Adelkar

Consultant
School of Information

Siddharth Adelkar is a software professional with 15 years of product development experience. This includes award-winning platforms such as People's Archive of Rural India (PARI), which he co-founded in 2014 and where he serves as Tech Editor.

Siddharth is a master's student at the Information School where he studies Information Management and Systems (MIMS). As a TA at the Haas School of Business, he helps teach MBA 290T: SQL programming. Siddharth has a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Reubén Pérez

Consultant
Sociology

Reubén Pérez is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley, where his research focuses on the politics of ethnoracial data production in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Melanie Phillips

Instructor
Political Science

My name is Melanie L. Phillips. I am currently a PhD Candidate in the Charles and Louise Travers Political Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley. My research examines how women’s political representation in African countries is shaped by the intersection between the rules governing candidate selection and the norms associated with gendered family roles. I use a combination of empirical methods in my work, including survey, experiments, and in-depth fieldwork.

Louie Ortiz

IUSE Undergraduate Advisory Board
Data Science

Louie is a third-year transfer student majoring in Data Science with an emphasis on Cognition. He hopes to analyze how data—both at the computational and human level—can advance our understanding of technology and its socio-cultural implications. He is a part of the IUSE Undergraduate Advisory Board; helping make Data Science at Berkeley inclusive and accessible to all.

Abhishek Roy

IUSE Undergraduate Advisory Board
Economics
Data Science

I'm Abhishek Roy and I'm double majoring in Economics and Data Science. I've been a part of D-Lab's IUSE project since Spring 2020 and have truly found an organization that is not only passionate about Data Science but also strives to expand its reach equitably to all communities. I am involved in Research and Project Management roles in various departments and labs at Berkeley and I'm an Editor at the Berkeley Economic Review. I love diving into anything at the intersection of Data Science, Economics, Business, and Computational Social Science. Whenever I'm free, I love writing...

Alex Bruefach

Discovery Graduate Fellow
Materials Science and Engineering

Alex is a PhD Candidate in materials science and engineering developing image processing and machine learning techniques for extracting information from electron microscopy datasets. Her primary focus is understanding what information is transferred from various feature representations of images. She has extensive experience collaborating across boundaries and is passionate about brainstorming innovative approaches to challenging data science problems!

Isaac Sloan

Research Fellow
Data Scholars Program
Cal NERDS

Having experienced the inequities in our public education system, I have a passion for exposing and addressing the barriers low-income minority students face through data science. I am an active supporter of improving our society through data-driven solutions. My technical background in mathematics and data science combined with my applied research skills have allowed me to make an impact on our education system. I am actively looking for opportunities to collaborate with individuals and organizations that are passionate about bridging the intersections of data science.

Joel Chang

UTech
Data Science

Joel is a third-year undergraduate student from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is a Data Science major and has been with the D-Lab since Fall 2019.

In terms of hobbies and interests, Joel loves to play and watch basketball, play the guitar, and watch shows on Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime (some of his current favorite shows: Atlanta, Superstore, Suits). Feel free to ask him about any questions you have or just to chat!