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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...

Daphne Yang

Data Science Fellow
School of Information

Daphne is a current 5th-year graduate student at the School of Information with a keen interest in the intersection between healthcare and data science. She has prior work experience in the realm of public health, consulting, and research. Currently, she is a data science research intern at a DC consumer experience startup. She is particularly interested in how data can be used to power insights and help move society towards a more equitable future.

Jordan Weiss, Ph.D.

Data Science Fellow
Demography

Jordan Weiss is a demographer who studies population health and inequality. A central theme of his work concerns the integration of theories across multiple disciplines with advances in statistical and computational science to inform research design and translate findings into actionable, policy-relevant information.

Jordan earned his Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania where he also earned an MA in Statistics. He is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Demography and Data Science Fellow at the University of California,...

Grazia Rovelli, Ph.D.

Data Science Fellow
Chemical Science Division (LBL)

Grazia is a postdoctoral scholar at the Chemical Science Division at Berkeley Lab and a Data Science Fellow at D-Lab. Her research has focused on several different aspects of atmospheric chemistry and she is now interested in data science and machine learning tools applied to atmospheric pollution problems.

Ilya Akdemir

Data Science Fellow
School of Law

Ilya is a JSD candidate at UC Berkeley School of Law. His research focuses on natural language processing and machine learning applications that are motivated by both theoretical and practical questions in the legal domain.