Regression Analysis

Weiying Li

Data Science & AI Fellow 2025-2026
Berkeley Graduate School of Education

Weiying is a Ph.D. candidate in Learning Sciences and Human Development at the UC Berkeley School of Education, with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating AI dialogs that support students in learning complex science concepts and engaging with social justice topics in science, such as food access. She uses mixed methods to investigate how iterative prompt design, developed in collaboration with teachers, can deepen students’ knowledge integration. Her work contributes to the development of responsible and adaptive AI tools for...

Paige Park

Data Science & AI Fellow 2025-2026
Demography

Paige Park is a Doctoral candidate in Demography. Her dissertation investigates applications of AI to demography, including deep learning based demographic forecasting. She is interested in using emerging tools to better model and contextually understand mortality, fertility, and migration patterns, particularly in the US context. She received an MA in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 2023.

Jiayu Lai

Data Science & AI Fellow 2025-2026
Political Science

Jiayu Lai is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests cover trade politics, labor politics, and the political economy of industrial transfers and global production. Prior to UC Berkeley, she received a Bachelor's degree from Sun Yat-sen University and a Master's degree from the University of Chicago.

Skyler Yumeng Chen

Data Science & AI Fellow 2025-2026, Data Science for Social Justice Fellow 2024
Haas School of Business

Skyler is a Ph.D. student in Behavioral Marketing at the Haas School of Business. Her research centers on consumer behavior and judgment and decision-making, with a keen interest in both experimental methods and data science techniques. She holds a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Data Science from New York University Shanghai.

Yiyi He

Data Science Fellow 2021-2022
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...

Sam Temlock

Data Science Fellow 2021-2022
School of Information

Sam (he/him) is a Master of Information and Data Science graduate student at the School of Information, with experience in Cybersecurity and Network Programming. He holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has previous experience in consulting at Deloitte. He has experience with Python, R, SQL, machine learning, data analytics, statistical analysis, and research design.

Frances Leung

Data Science Fellow 2021-2022
School of Information

Frances Leung is a master’s student at UC Berkeley School of Information where she focuses her studies in information and data science. She has a keen interest in leveraging data-driven insights to better understand consumer behaviors and the world around us. In her professional work as a management consultant, she advises retailers and consumer businesses on digital transformation and creating web/mobile experiences that delight consumers through a human-centered approach. Frances holds a Master in Business Administration from York University, Schulich School...

Connor Haley

Data Science Fellow 2021-2022
Haas School of Business

Connor is an MBA/MEng student with an undergraduate degree in statistics. He spent the past three years in economic consulting, focused on designing competitive electric power markets to produce optimal outcomes. His technical background is in R, Excel, Visual Basic (VBA/macros), and statistical methods.

Enrique Valencia López

Data Science Fellow 2022-2023
Graduate School of Education

Enrique Valencia López is a PhD student in the Policy, Politics and Leadership cluster at the Graduate School of Education.His research interests relate to three broad areas: the stratification of education by gender, immigration status and ethnicity; the measurement of teacher working conditions and well-being; and education in Latin America.

Before coming to Berkeley, Enrique worked for Mexico’s National Institute for Educational Evaluation and Assessment (INEE) in both the Policy and Indicators area. During that time, he co-authored Mexico’s first report on the educational...

Ruiji Sun

Data Science Fellow 2024-2025
Center for the Built Environment

Ruiji Sun is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Building Science at UC Berkeley. He is also a GSR at the Center for the Built Environment (CBE). His dissertation focuses on causal inference in the built environment. Other areas of his research include indoor environmental quality, personalized environmental control systems, and building energy modeling.

He obtained his M.S. degree from Carnegie Mellon University and double-majored in Mechanical Engineering (HVAC) and Architecture at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China. Ruiji also served as a board...