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Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite - Lecturer, UGIS
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Effective acquisition of multi-languages is mainly based on building a fortified vocabulary repertoire. Understanding and using figurative language, specifically idioms is considered a sign of students’ advanced language proficiency. However, acquiring idioms has always been a challenge for language learners. Considering the fact that NLP and NLU is rapidly...
Barbara 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: Full- no new appr needed 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 language as well. The primary research will involve carrying out linguistic annotations (e.g., reading novels and marking...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Many computational studies on people in text focus on gender. We are interested in broadening the dimensions of identity labels analyzed in natural language processing and cultural analytics. In particular, we hope to carefully curate resources and datasets for investigating the representation of race in fiction, especially in literature used...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
There are several research opportunities available for undergraduates for expanding BookNLP (https://github.com/booknlp/booknlp), a natural language processing pipeline for books and other long documents. We'll be focusing on developing BookNLP for Python, and expanding its capacity to the languages of Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and German. This work will...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceWeihong Bao - Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project research the history of modern Chinese media, broadly construed, that crosses over photography, film and theater, architecture, and television. I locate the history in late to mid twentieth century China, with transcontinental traffic across the Pacific and the Atlantic. The project engages intellectual, technological, and aesthetic history and...
Patricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: In 2016, voters in the state of California passed Assembly Bill (AB) 2016 which now requires an ethnic studies curriculum for grades 7-12. In a state where the Latinx student population is 3,284,788 or 56.1% of all students in the state, the new ethnic studies requirement invites a deeper...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: Mam is one of the Mayan languages whose ancestral community spans southern Mexico and western Guatemala. According to the Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VII de Vivienda (2018), there are 842, 252 Mam speakers living in Guatemala, with the largest communities in Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Quetzaltenango. This project...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesBrian A. Barsky - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project is investigating algorithmic vision correction for the user of a display based on his or her spectacles prescription in simple cases or based on measurements of the optical aberrations of his or her vision in more complex cases. Our approach is to compute an altered display that when...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesBrian A. Barsky - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project is concerned with assistive technology that enables users with fine motor control difficulties to navigate, select, point, and click without physically manipulating a mouse. The idea is to use a camera to capture the user’s hand movements. There are many individuals who do not have the ability to...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesJames Bayrer - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The intestinal lining undergoes continual renewal, with a near total turnover of epithelial cells occurring every week. Powering this metabolically intense task are the intestinal stem cells that divide and restore the intestine. Understanding how intestinal stem cells can both contribute to normal homeostasis and the repair of damaged tissue...
Sara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson...
Social SciencesSara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson...
Social SciencesSara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson...
Social SciencesSara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This is a joint project with Autodesk (and its Innovation Genome project) and the Nobel Foundation. Autodesk has for the past few years been studying the 1000 greatest innovations in history to uncover common principles that lead to innovation. In this project, we will examine Nobel prize winners, particularly those...
Social SciencesAnnaliese Beery - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Research in our laboratory is focused on factors that influence affiliative social behavior in two species of voles. This project involves working with a graduate student on genotyping a colony of oxytocin receptor deficient voles in advance of behavioral testing, or continuations of other pre-arranged research projects. All students...
Gasper Begus - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project models spoken language from raw audio using deep generative neural networks (GANs). We use audio, neural, and behavioral data in spoken language to better understand and interpret deep learning models...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJeff Belkora - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS “This apprenticeship has been the highlight of my time at Berkeley. It has given me a chance to help patients in difficult medical situations, and as a pre-health undergraduate, this is important to me.” “It is a great opportunity to get clinical experience and work with like...
Biological & Health Sciences Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyMatteo Benetton - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In this project we plan to study the effect of financial influencers on asset markets. We will identify influencers in popular general platforms (e.g., twitter, instagram) and platform more specific for investments (e.g., StockTwits). We plan to study for both stocks and cryptocurrencies trading activities and return performances of retail...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesMatteo Benetton - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The project is part of a large agenda trying to understand how banks compete in an evolving environment affected by changing demographics and the entry non fintech lenders and bigtech firms. One project is studying the heterogeneous preferences of borrowers and savers to explain the lengthening of the financial intermediation...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAdam Benkato - Professor , Near Eastern Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project consists of two parts: the 'Open Archive of Middle Persian Documents' and 'Chorasmian Online'. The goal is to make primary source material and lexicographical material available to researchers online. We will probably work on both projects in tandem or on alternating weeks, as the tasks and skills required...
Arts & HumanitiesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
I am engaged in research that examines state policies regarding the imposition of child support payments for parents whose children are in foster care. An obscure federal policy allows states to charge parents when their children are placed in foster care. My work focuses on examining these policies across states...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The U.S. is the only country in the world that has not signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. The position of children in this country is therefore ambiguous and contested. Examining news stories that pertain to children and families over the past five years, this study...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Transgender children are disproportionately overrepresented in the United States child welfare system and experience many unique challenges during their child welfare experiences. The state of California began collecting data on transgender children in the child welfare system in 2019, but before this data can be analyzed, social workers' use of...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
In California, child protective services (CPS) investigators are required by law to evaluate reports of maltreatment in screened-in calls from the hotline and remove children from caregivers (and/or parents) who demonstrate evidence or significant risk of harm towards the child. In certain cases, caregivers may appeal on a...
Social SciencesStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases (RR\ID) [rrid.mitpress.mit.edu], is an initiative of the MIT Press and the University of California, Berkeley. It is an open access, rapid-review overlay journal for the accelerated curation and peer review of COVID-19 and emerging infections disease-related research. RR\ID takes a transdisciplinary...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases (RR\ID) [rrid.mitpress.mit.edu], is an initiative of the MIT Press and the University of California, Berkeley. It is an open access, rapid-review overlay journal for the accelerated curation and peer review of COVID-19 and emerging infections disease-related research. RR\ID takes a transdisciplinary...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Psychiatric disorders including PTSD; and alcohol use disorder and other addictions are responsible for a large portion of both the global burden and US burden of disease. Current therapies help a significant portion of people suffering from these disorders. Nevertheless, many patients do not respond adequately or cannot tolerate the...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The last few decades have seen growing acknowledgement and emphasis on the need to bridge gaps between research and practice. Implementation Science (IS) is the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices into routine practice. An evolving and interdisciplinary field...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStephen Best - Professor, Townsend Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Undergraduate Humanities Writer covers humanities-related events and programs at Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities and across campus...
Arts & HumanitiesDavid Bilder - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Malignant tumors are distinct from benign growths in their ability to hijack and disrupt various processes in the body. Some common examples that most people are familiar with are tumor invasion of adjacent tissues, recruitment vasculature to accelerate growth, and dissemination of metastasizing cells. However, a less well-appreciated fact...
Biological & Health SciencesSonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
General to all projects listed: Computational models have been a powerful tool for studying decision-making in both psychology and neuroscience. They have recently become popular in psychiatry as well. Part of the appeal has been that computational approaches delineate individual differences in decision-making that can explain why people...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesSonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Computational models have been a powerful tool for studying decision-making in both psychology and neuroscience. They have recently become popular in psychiatry as well. Part of the appeal has been that computational approaches delineate individual differences in decision-making that can explain why people with different psychiatric disorders (such...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesSonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
General to all projects: Computational models have been a powerful tool for studying decision-making in both psychology and neuroscience. They have recently become popular in psychiatry as well. Part of the appeal has been that computational approaches delineate individual differences in decision-making that can explain why people with...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesSonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs
In this project, we are using multi-feature encoding models to analyse functional magnetic resonance imaging data collected when participants look at naturalistic examples of emotional faces. The goal is to better understand how tuning to facial information (expression, gender, age etc) varies across the cortical surface of the human...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesBenjamin Blackman - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In order to test the function of specific genes or the impact of genetic variants on phenotype, genetic manipulation is required. The aim of the project is to assist with development and implementation of methods for genetic transformation of sunflower and monkeyflower, the two main study systems in the lab...
Biological & Health SciencesBenjamin Blackman - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
A major focus of our lab is identifying how genetic and phenotypic variation that has evolved among plant populations adapts plants to their local climates and habitats. Understanding how these adaptations to climate variation across space have evolved will help us understand mechanisms by which plants can evolve to cope...
Biological & Health SciencesBenjamin Blackman - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Flowering and reproduction are highly regulated processes in composite plants like sunflower which produce disks that are clusters of many individual flowers. Environmental cues like light and temperature interact with the circadian clock regulate what time of the season buds first start to develop, and the same integration of internal...
Biological & Health SciencesBenjamin Blackman - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
During floral development, patterns of pigment are painted on to the petals of many plants, and these pigments often serve to attract and direct bee pollinators toward pollen and nectar rewards. We have found several natural variants affecting the nectar guide pigmentation patterns of the common monkeyflower in both the...
Biological & Health SciencesLisa Bloom - Scholar-in-Residence, Gender and Women's Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Building upon the ideas presented in my recent book, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic, published by Duke University Press (2022), we will delve into new avenues of research and writing. This fall, we aim to explore the vital role of artist-activists...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Arts & HumanitiesAnne Bloom - Executive Director, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Civil Justice Research Initiative (CJRI) is a think tank that explores, through interdisciplinary, academically-based and independent research, how the civil justice system can be made more available to everyone seeking relief. The CJRI is chaired by Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and directed by Anne Bloom, an attorney...
Social SciencesJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Access to credit can be an important lifeline, but it can also lock people into debt traps. Mobile banking technologies have completely transformed the ways in which people, especially in the developing world, access credit, raising new questions about fairness and welfare in lending. The goal of this project is...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Over the past decade, the rapid proliferation of mobile phones, satellites, and other digital sensors has created tremendous opportunities to measure human behavior. These data also provide the foundation for the growing interdisciplinary field of computational social science. Non-traditional “big” data hold unique potential in developing and conflict-affected...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Data-Intensive Development Lab at UC Berkeley (didl.berkeley.edu) is providing data science support to the governments of several Low and Middle Income Countries, as well as humanitarian organizations like GiveDirectly, who are doing their best to effectively respond to the evolving humanitarian crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Sustainable sand mining is one of the most pressing ecological challenges currently facing the planet. After water, sand is the world’s most valuable natural resource – over 50 billion tons of construction-grade sand and gravel were mined globally from rivers and beaches in 2021, accounting for 85% of all mineral...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceCarl Boettiger - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Become familiar with the mathematical, statistical, and computational tools used in the group and learn how to apply these methods to answer questions in ecological research and conservation decision making. Emphasis on the use of deep reinforcement learning and best practices in data science software development...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental Issues Digital Humanities and Data ScienceCarl Boettiger - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Develop, test, and visualize methods for forecasting ecological variables such as carbon flux, beetle abundance, or indicators of aquatic ecosystem health...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental Issues Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMatilde Bombardini - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Abstract Campaign finance laws aim to limit an individual's influence over the political process. We show that corporate ownership may be an important mechanism by which institutional investors circumvent such constraints and amplify their influence. Using data on the political giving and ownership of all 13-F investors...
Matilde Bombardini - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
he Buy American Act places strict limitations on the purchase of foreign manufacturing products by the U.S. Federal Government. Despite the increasingly U.S.-centered nature of many government programs, like the recent Inflation Reduction Act, we lack a detailed understanding of the costs and benefits of this type of policy...
William Boos - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The North American monsoon is a band of intense rainfall that stretches more than 1,000 km along Mexico's west coast and into the southwestern US, delivering crucial water supply to the semi-arid regions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. This monsoon is a continental-scale atmospheric circulation that driven...
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