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Reza Abbasi-Asl - Professor, Neuroscience
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance in many tasks such as computer vision and natural language processing. Interpreting deep networks is essential for applying them to scientific applications such as healthcare. Two prominent approaches to interpret neural networks are saliency methods and network compression. However, both methods...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesReza Abbasi-Asl - Professor, Neuroscience
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
Characterizing the the neural function in the brain and its relationship with connectivity is an eminent question of visual sensory processing. With the recent increase in the amount of the data collected from brain, tools based on machine learning principles play an essential role in understanding the brain function. The...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesReza Abbasi-Asl - Professor, Neuroscience
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
Computational tools based on machine learning principles have shown promising results in analyzing medical images. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful tools in this domain. While most of the algorithms based on CNNs are supervised and with the increasing amount of un-labeled datasets, it...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesReza Abbasi-Asl - Professor, Neuroscience
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
There is an immense amount of unstructured and uncollated data in neuroscience and bioinformatics that could be used to guide knowledge discovery. Large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in extracting and analyzing unstructured natural language corpora and are promising for semi-automated processing of text into scientific knowledge such...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesDor Abrahamson - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We present an innovative educational design for basic arithmetic that responds to students’ documented difficulties with adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. The design utilizes MOVES, a technological architecture that combines floor- and screen-projected interactive interfaces. Students enact arithmetic operations, e.g., “3 - (-2)” by walking along a projected...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyDor Abrahamson - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
What do dancing and geometrical proof have in common? Turns out that in both of these disparate practices, we imagine lines to solve the common problem of perceptually engaging the environment to perform sensorimotor tasks. In dance, these lines have been called “attentional anchors.” In geometry, these lines are called...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyKathryn Abrams - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the mobilization of undocumented immigrants in Phoenix, beginning with resistance to SB 1070 and "enforcement by attrition" and continuing through the Trump administration. It seeks explain the emergence of a social movement of undocumented immigrants and analyze the practices through which social movement organizations support...
Social SciencesKathryn Abrams - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will have two facets: 1) Some students will work with the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (in collaboration with Arneta Rogers, the executive director, and me). CRRJ brings together organizers, advocates, scholars, and students; it focuses primarily on reproductive justice issues, which involve group based inequalities in...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) brings together scholars from various disciplines, institutes, and centers from Berkeley and around the world to foster collaborative research on APEC and other trade-related issues. We are looking for students interested in working on the US-China superpower competition, particularly...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
In a world of rising inequality and globalization, international coordination on tax policy has increased in importance. In this project, I investigate how international tax coordination was formed between states and how changes to the global tax rules affect the international investment environment. I argue that the global minimum tax...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Business and Politics is an internationally ranked, peer-reviewed international political economy journal. This is a fantastic opportunity for students who desire social science writing and editing experience. This URAP also provides a unique inside look at the academic publishing process...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The end of the Cold War marked the beginning of an American-led era characterized by multilateralism and expanding international trade. This period witnessed a rapid shift toward greater openness, globalization, and opportunities for mutual economic gain. However, in recent years, there has been a notable rise in legislation and...
Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Description: Squishy robots are rapidly deployable mobile sensing robots for disaster rescue, remote monitoring and space exploration. Our emergent technologies are at the fusion of robotics, mobile sensing, machine learning, big data fusion and smart IoT (Internet of Things). Our first target market is the HazMat and CBRNE (Chemical, biological...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Squishy robots are rapidly deployable mobile sensing robots for disaster rescue, remote monitoring and space exploration. Our emergent technologies are at the fusion of robotics, mobile sensing, machine learning, big data fusion and smart IoT (Internet of Things). This semester we will focus on smart sensor robots for early detection...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Project #1. theDesignExchange.org: (1) theDesignExchange: We are in the process of designing and developing the DesignExchange, an interactive web portal for the design and design strategy community. The DesignExchange aims to meet three needs: consolidate and organize the many design and design research methods used, develop a community of practitioners...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This research project originated from a longstanding relationship between the Pinoleville Pomo Nation from Northern California and an interdisciplinary research group from UC Berkeley. After conversations with the Tribal Council and researchers’ participation in tribal gatherings, issues around well-being, and education were identified as areas of common interest. One...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesBassem Al-Sady - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Genes in our genome can be kept in active or inactive states in different cell types. Genes coding for opposing cell types are heritably kept inactive. This is possible because a gene repressive structure called heterochromatin can “grow” over regions containing these genes in some, but not other cell types...
Ahmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Conformal prediction (CP) is a model-agnostic and distribution-free method for quantifying uncertainty in black-box machine learning (ML) models. CP can be used to construct prediction sets/intervals that covers the true labels with a pre-determined probability as long as the training and testing data are exchangeable...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Vision-Language Models (VLM) can support clinicians by analyzing medical images and engaging in natural language interactions to assist in diagnostic and treatment tasks. However, VLMs often exhibit "hallucinogenic" behavior, generating textual outputs not grounded in contextual multimodal information. This challenge is particularly pronounced in the medical domain, where we...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Large language models (LLMs) pre-trained on large corpora of text have demonstrated incredible capabilities across with zero- or few-shot performance in new tasks that differ from their pre-training objectives. In this projects, we will study the zero-shot performance of LLMs for various clinical tasks using real...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Institutional constraints and concerns over patient privacy impedes sharing of clinical data among researchers. High-fidelity synthetic data that mimics the real data distribution without revealing real data for individual patients can help empower and democratize research applying machine learning models to clinical problems. In this project, we will use...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We are seeking motivated students to contribute to the design, fabrication, and testing of wave energy converters (WECs) for autonomous sailboat drones. The goal is to develop compact, efficient systems that harvest wave energy to extend mission endurance. Students will gain hands-on experience in mechanical design, marine engineering, prototyping...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project develops swarm of autonomous sailboat drones powered by a hybrid renewable energy system that integrates wind propulsion, wave energy harvesting, and solar power generation. The vessels are designed for long-duration, self-sustained operation at sea, enabling continuous environmental monitoring without reliance on external charging infrastructure. The platform...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We have a few experimental research projects in the area of fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, aerospace engineering, and ocean engineering. These are serious research projects that potentially can be done by undergraduate students. By serious it means that there is a potential for publication or presenting your results in national and...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Two positions available: 1) Design and fabrication, 2) Modeling and Controller Design Field Oriented Control (FOC) is an advanced commutation and current control technique that allows Brushless DC (BLDC) motors to run more efficiently, with a higher power factor, with smoother motion (less torque ripple), and with no compromise in...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesNima Alan - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Assistant will remotely call patients before and after surgery to collect data and will review medical records for retrospective databases. Assistant will also have the opportunity to shadow in clinic and assist with in-person research tasks...
Biological & Health SciencesAchinoam Aldouby - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an archival research project focused on the photography archive of Roman Vishniac, documenting pre-WWII Jewish communities in Europe and American society. The project goal is to identify, contextualize, and create curatorial descriptions for the images, building a searchable database to provide historical context for future research...
Arts & HumanitiesAchinoam Aldouby - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project offers an exciting opportunity to serve as an Exhibition Research Assistant for a Jewish timeline exhibition at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, slated to open in Fall 2027. You'll delve into the extensive Magnes Collection to identify, research, and interpret objects that illustrate or respond...
Arts & HumanitiesRodrigo Almeida - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Grapevine leaf roll disease and red blotch disease are two economically important grape pathogens in California. The diseases are currently not curable, so mitigation efforts including roguing (removing infected plants) are used to reduce disease spread. Roguing requires correctly identifying infected plants, which can be difficult to do visually due...
Biological & Health SciencesRodrigo Almeida - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Xylella fastidiosa is a xylem-limited bacterium associated with several important diseases in a wide range of plants. In California, the bacterium causes Pierce's Disease (PD) of grapevine, which has economic and management implications for the state's wine industry. The range of PD in California is limited by cold winter...
Biological & Health SciencesLisa Alvarez-Cohen - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of synthetic chemicals used in various industrial and consumer products, including Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF), widely used since the 1960s for firefighting. Due to their persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic nature, PFAS pose significant environmental and health risks. Despite their widespread use...
Christopher Ames - Professor, Neurological Surgery
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
At the UCSF Spine Center, Dr. Christopher Ames has a number of studies related to patient outcomes after open scoliosis surgery: ranging from bioelectrical impedance gait analyses and assessments of fall risk to validating AI diagnostic tools and tracking frailty/activity levels/complications/pain medication usage before and after surgery...
Biological & Health SciencesCameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Apprentices are needed to work on a project related to power and risk-taking. Students will participate in a major meta-analysis project in which the effect of power on risk-taking is tested. Students will be responsible for reviewing relevant academic papers and their findings to be included in...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Please write Project 2: Social Psychology and Business Lab at the top of your application if you are interested in applying to our lab. We are seeking to recruit 2-3 new Research Apprentices who are interested in finding out more about social psychology and business research to join our research...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
PLEASE SPECIFY in your application if you are interested in working on this project by mentioning the project title*** We are seeking to recruit a couple of Research Apprentices who are interested in finding out more about social psychology and business research to join our research lab. Our goal is...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Apprentices are needed to work on projects related to perceptions of competence and social status. Students will conduct a major new lab experiment in which participants are videotaped conducting a consulting case interview. Students may be trained as interviewers, or manage lab logistics. Students will examine perceptions of competence and...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDiliana Angelova - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims at creating several maps needed for a publication on the the trade and cultural connections between the Roman Mediterranean and Ancient India (1ct c. BCE to 6th c. CE...
Arts & HumanitiesDiliana Angelova - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims at creating a born-digital catalogue of Byzantine boxes made of ivory, bone, and wood. These objects, dated between the 10th and the 12th centuries, reveal an unusual side of Byzantium. They demonstrate that the Byzantines valued merrymaking, eroticism and the cultural heritage of Greece and Rome...
Arts & HumanitiesDiliana Angelova - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This position entails tasks associated with researching in the humanities. It is well-suited for students who can work independently and are willing to dedicate at least of 3-5 hours of time in their week...
Arts & HumanitiesSarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The research is focused on local politics in the United States and will support a project about decision-making in local government. This project explores: 1) what local officials vote on in in US local government, 2) the role of partisanship in voting, and 3) how municipality size conditions the...
Social SciencesSarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
In the wake of the events of Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, the descriptive and substantive under-representation of minorities in local governments has become an issue of pressing concern. Reformers and litigators have focused almost exclusively on the notion that minority representation is a simple matter of creating minority-majority...
Social SciencesSarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the role of businesses and business associations in local politics and local government in the United States. The project has two parts. One is a qualitative data collection focused on the local policy priorities and goals of chambers of commerce in cities and counties across the country...
Social SciencesFolklore Archivist - Archivist, Folklore Program
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Folklore Archive is seeking a detail-oriented student to help digitize archival materials. This role provides a hands-on opportunity to engage with archival processes and contribute to the preservation and dissemination of rich cultural materials from the Berkeley Folklore Archive. No prior experience in archival work or digitization...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesColette (Coco) Auerswald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
BACKGROUND Youth and Allies Against Homelessness (YAAH) is a research team based in i4Y (Innovations for Youth), a Berkeley School of Public Health research center. YAAH is made up of people with lived experience of homelessness or that have a deep commitment to ending youth homelessness. This includes youth community...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this set of research projects is to understand how people experience the psychological phenomenon of authenticity. These research questions include - what personality traits are associated with seeming the most authentic? How does the use of rationales or explanations impact perceptions of authenticity? What role does self-awareness...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
A core human desire is to express and share our inner world with others. However, try as we might, we often fail to do so fully. In fact, a central human experience is being misunderstood by others. While common, we currently know very little about the psychological consequences of feeling...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this research project is to examine law enforcement and civilian interactions from a micro-psychological perspective. In particular, I am interested in the cultural factors that lead to better (or worse) outcomes. I am utilize a variety of open-source and large archival datasets, as well as...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyBarbara Baker - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
In eukaryotes, small RNAs (20–30 nt) derived from double stranded RNA precursors direct proteins to regulate chromatin function, transcription, RNA stability, and translation through sequence-targeted mechanisms termed RNA silencing. Two main categories of plant small RNAs, microRNAs (miRNAs) and short interfering RNAs (siRNAs), guide cleavage of mRNA and...
Biological & Health SciencesDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Methods in computer vision have reached a level of maturity that we can now develop computational instruments to measure a wide range of phenomena in film -- which actors are present in frame, the poses they have with respect to each other, the boundaries between shots -- which opens the door to...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
LitBank an annotated dataset of fiction to support tasks in natural language processing and the computational humanities. While it currently exists for English, we'll be branching out to create similar resources for other languages as well (including Spanish, Japanese, German and other languages). The primary research will involve carrying out...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science