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Swetha Pola

Research Fellow
School of Information

Swetha (she/her) is a 5th Year Master of Information and Data Science student at the School of Information, with experience in Cognitive Science, Psychology research, and product management. Her research interests include building ethical, transparent AI and the impacts of technologies (specifically, mass media, surveillance, and algorithms of bias) on longitudinal behavioral health. She is happy to help with questions on Python, R, SQL, machine learning, neural networks, statistical analysis, and research design!

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Lawrence Y. Tello

Master's Student
School of Public Health

I am an MPH candidate in Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the School of Public Health. Prior to graduate school, I worked on Psychology and Neuroscience studies. My research interest revolves around psychiatric epidemiology with a focus on suicide prevention. Currently, I am working as an Epidemiologist/Data Analyst for the California Department of Public Health. I love working with messy data, solving coding challenges, and data visualization.

Katherine Wolf

Adjunct Fellow
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Doctoral student in Rachel Morello-Frosch's laboratory in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management working at the intersection of environmental epidemiology, environmental justice, and causal inference. Particularly interested in developing quantitative methods to investigate the operation of social power in environmental monitoring regimes in the United States.

Amanda Jorgensen

IUSE Undergraduate Advisory Board
Data Science
Economics

I am currently a fourth-year undergraduate, studying Data Science and Economics.

Ian Castro

D-Lab Alumni
School of Information

Ian is a graduate student in the Master of Information Management and Systems program at the School of Information with a focus in applied data science. He earned his B.A. in Media Studies and B.S. in Microbial Biology from UC Berkeley, and his research interests and work experience are in STEM education. He focuses in building courses and academic programs to make data and computing accessible to historically marginalized students and those without prior exposure to the field.

Lia Chin-Purcell

Consultant
School of Information

Hello! I am a first-year Masters's student at the School of Information in the MIMS program with a focus is in data science and ethics. Before joining Berkeley, I studied computer science at the University of Puget Sound.

Tiffany Taylor

PhD Student
Anthropology

Tiffany Taylor is a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she received a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She graduated from the University of Chicago with majors in Political Science, Sociology, and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (Asian American Studies). Some of her research interests include social medicine, educational sociology, and social demography. Additional interests include pilates, yoga, and fashion.

Anushah Hossain

Senior Data Science Fellow
Energy and Resources Group

Anushah's background is in history and economics and she is interested in questions of how technological and social trends inform one another. She uses the models and methods of these disciplines - theories of technological change, an eye towards historical contingencies, and familiarity with programming tools - to undergird her work. In the past she's studied how internet users make sense of barriers they encounter when accessing the web, how cellular communications alter the nature of village life in the Philippines, and how the South Asian diaspora finds...

Ash Tan

Consultant
School of Information

Ash is a Masters of Information and Data Science student at the Berkeley School of Information. He currently studies data collection, analysis, and visualization, as well as research design and machine learning techniques. His interests include cognitive science, Wikipedia data, and privacy research.

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Priscila Amorim

Changemaker Technology Project
Data Science
Digital Health Social Justice

Priscila Amorim is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley's Bachelor's of Arts in Data Science program, and is currently attending Northwestern Univerisity for a Master's of Science in Data Science. Priscila is passionate about the intersection of technology and social justice, and in particular, health justice. Their goal is to work on climate justice through database management or data engineering to support data scientists and analysts in their work through the availability of ubiquitous data. Priscila is currently working on the Changemaker's Digital Health Project to help create...