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David Whitney - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The recent advent of autonomous vehicles (AV) in the last decade has changed the traditional role of drivers. Currently, autonomous cars being developed and commercialized are not fully autonomous. In fact, commercially-available AV take control of only some of the driving functions, such as speed, or are highly automated...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science Education, Cognition & PsychologyDavid Whitney - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Accurately knowing the timing of different events happening around us is a crucial ability of all human beings. In natural scenes such as movies or everyday life, dynamic events could happen either in the left or right visual field. Given that information coming through our left visual field will be...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science Education, Cognition & PsychologyDavid Whitney - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The ability to quickly and accurately perceive emotion is essential in our daily lives. However, how does the brain process multiple sources of emotional information when making emotional judgments? The brain must take into consideration facial expression, tone of voice, body movement, contextual information, and even beliefs in its judgment...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science Education, Cognition & PsychologyChristine Wildsoet - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Myopia or short-sightedness has become the focus of increasing concern as its prevalence steadily climbs. Figures of around 90% have been recorded for some Asian university student populations and a recent US-based study also reported a dramatic increase in the prevalence of myopia, especially among AfroAmericans. Myopia is...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesChristine Wildsoet - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This research has a number of different aspects. One aspect involves collection of optical images of the back of the eye, using an advanced high resolution SD-OCT imagining machine. Initial work will involve images already collected. It will involves working with large amounts of data in excel, using smoothing...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesChristine Wildsoet - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Myopia or short-sightedness has become the focus of increasing concern as its prevalence steadily climbs. Figures of around 90% have been recorded for some Asian university student populations and a recent US-based study also reported a dramatic increase in the prevalence of myopia, especially among AfroAmericans. Myopia is...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesChristine Wildsoet - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
There is increasing interest in the role of sunlight and light exposure in the development of myopia. In this project, we are using a wearable light sensor/activity monitor (Actiwatch), for human subjects. The sensor will record the intensity of light subjects are exposed to, and will allow us to...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMartha Wilfahrt - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
How does the precolonial past influence contemporary African politics? This question animates a growing literature on precolonial legacies, yet this work has been hindered by imprecise and incomplete data on the nature of precolonial political organization. This project builds an original Atlas of Africa's precolonial polities in the 19th century...
Social SciencesMartha Wilfahrt - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The construction of the African colonial state saw extensive re-arranging of political space as European colonial powers sought to extend their control across newly claimed territories. In many cases, these subnational boundaries largely persist to the present, raising the question of how colonial visions of state-building influence contemporary...
Social SciencesClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project builds partnerships between community groups and academic researchers at studio.geo-?, an experimental mapping studio hosted out of the Department of Geography + the Berkeley Centre for New Media. It connects people and organisations who need cartographic assistance, from simple technical advice, access to geographic data + other resources to community...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In partnership with a wide range of Pacific-based organizations including Fåha’ Digital Media, Pacific Islanders in Communication, the Northern Marianas Humanities Council, and Blue Ocean Law, this wide-ranging research consists of two central projects: - Researching, compiling and mapping films about Pacific Islander stories, made by or in partnership...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
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Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
General Description The breaking apart of the American state is as old as the concept of the United States itself. This project seeks to document the scale of state secessionist movements through time using primary and secondary sources. The broader context of this project is a study of the co...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMark Wilson - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Critical Reasoning for College Readiness (CR4CR) is a project that seeks to develop psychometrically sound assessments that can be used by teachers in the classrooms at the high school and early college levels. Our goal is to develop, revise, and validate a suite of assessments, including unique assessment tasks and...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceCarol Wilson - Research Botanist, University and Jepson Herbaria
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Mistletoes are shrubby, aerial-branch parasites belonging to order Santalales. Most are hemiparasites that obtain water and mineral nutrients and a portion of their carbon from the xylem sap of their host plants. Although they can be forest pathogens, particularly to conifer tree species that are under stress from drought...
Biological & Health SciencesCarol Wilson - Research Botanist, University and Jepson Herbaria
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Carol A. Wilson is conducting research that examines phylogeny, biogeography, endemism, and ecology of a lineage of Iris that mostly occur in a biodiversity hotspot (California Floristic Province). Iris comprise a highly diverse genus of perennials that provide significant food resources including nectar, pollen, arils, and underground structures, as well...
Biological & Health SciencesAshley Wolf - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Bacteroidetes is one of the main bacterial groups of the human gut microbiome. Although several reference strains related to species such Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, Bacteroides fragilis and Phocaicola vulgatus have been investigated and even used as model organisms to understand the gut microbiome, strain level diversity is extensive and remains to...
Biological & Health SciencesAshley Wolf - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The gut microbiome is a complex community of microbes that have unique enzymatic capabilities. Some gut bacteria metabolize sialic acids that are found in the diet and/or produced by host cells. We have identified putative genes that encode enzymes responsible for sialic acid metabolism. This project will use cloning...
Biological & Health SciencesAshley Wolf - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The composition of the gut microbiome is thought to influence host susceptibility or protection against infectious diseases. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis disease (TB), is the leading cause of death by an infectious agent worldwide. The literature suggests that Mtb can cause perturbations in the gut microbiota...
Biological & Health SciencesWinnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an ongoing historical research project on the visual culture produced by Chinese painters in Guangzhou, China, for European and American markets during the period of the Canton Trade (1700-1850). The project looks at issues of artistic labor in Guangzhou, the role of transnational merchants, and the Western contexts...
Arts & HumanitiesWinnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
A collaboration with the Asian Art Museum, this project researches the art and visual culture of Hong Kong, in its history and present...
Arts & HumanitiesWinnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project centers on the daily diary of a literatus in early modern Guangzhou, China. Through reading and translating the diary, we examine the everyday life of an urbane gentleman, his navigation of an early modern city and its social networks. We see the centrality of painting, poetry, music, and...
Arts & HumanitiesWinnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Research on the history of Bay Area artists' communities, utilizing archival, visual culture, and oral history sources...
Arts & HumanitiesYen-Jung Wu - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
As we enter a new era of space exploration, space weather has garnered significant attention. About 100 years ago, scientists discovered that the Sun's activity influences our planet through the solar wind plasma and energetic particle burst. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesFei Xu - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Early Learning Lab, under the direction of Professor Fei Xu, researches statistical inference, categorization development, social cognition, information search, decision-making and language acquisition in infants and children aged 4 months to 10 years. Children participate in our studies at our Berkeley Way West lab, at preschools, and...
Education, Cognition & PsychologyFei Xu - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This projects explores the origins of referential communication by analyzing the properties of parent-infant and parent-child interactions and infants' sensitivity to parents & contingent responsiveness. We use a combination of methods, including video annotation of video-recorded parent-infant dyads, eyetracking experiments, and behavioral experiments. The age range for...
Education, Cognition & PsychologyAdam Yala - Professor, Computational Precision Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI is the most sensitive imaging modality for understanding who has breast cancer, what is the extent of the disease and what treatments may be most appropriate. The effectiveness of this modality critically relies on the injection gadolinium contrast which “lights up” lesions on imaging; however, this...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceLuyi Yang - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The project will take a deep dive into competition of durable good markets (e.g., the automobile industry) and its environmental implications by analyzing household-level transactions data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The project aims to understand firms' pricing strategies and consumer substitution behavior, with a focus on...
Luyi Yang - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Machine learning and data mining have been changing the business world. However, they can still be a black box to non-experts who lack technical expertise. This project aims to demystify the machine learning workflow for lay people by delivering efficient and well-explained computer code that is comprehensible to...
Michael Yartsev - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project aims at describing the vocal behavior of the Egyptian fruit-bat. This social species of bats is known to emit a diversity of vocalizations in the wild, but its repertoire and vocal behavior still remains to be carefully described. At the Yarstev Lab we are particularly interested in...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Yartsev - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project aims at describing the vocal behavior of the Egyptian fruit-bat. This social species of bats is known to emit a diversity of vocalizations in the wild, but its repertoire and vocal behavior still remains to be carefully described. At the Yarstev Lab we are particularly interested in...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Yartsev - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
In Full: High-quality video is an immensely powerful way to track and quantify behavior of animals in an environment. However, the curating and processing of this video is time-consuming and subject to individual bias. This project aims to leverage state of the art tools, primarily, DeepLabCut (see website...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAvideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In this project, we will develop methods to enable a drone to fly effortlessly among obstacles in outdoor environments such as forests. Our testing site is Cesar Chavez park in Berkeley Marina as well as Richmond Field Station. You will be working with an actual drone e.g. Bit Craze, or...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAvideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In this project, we will develop RL policies to teach a hexapod robot navigate in cluttered environments. We will initially develop separate policies for climbing joists, stairs, and squeezing under objects. Then we will distill and combine them using hierarchical RL. This work builds on top of existing work which...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesEmily Zazulia - Professor, Music
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to develop a new visualization tool for the study of Renaissance musical culture. Recognizing that central information about musicians and musical institutions is scattered across thousands of often hard-to-access documents and published volumes, and appreciating the potential for dynamic, easy-to-use digital visualization tools...
Arts & HumanitiesQing Zhou - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Project LEAD (Language, Emotion, and Development) is a longitudinal study funded by the National Institute of Health (PIs: Qing Zhou at UC-Berkeley; Yuuko Uchikoshi at UC-Davis). This study aims at investigating the links among bilingual development, executive function, parent-child and teacher-child relationships, and socio-emotional development...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesQing Zhou - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Since 2007, our team has been conducting a longitudinal study on socio-emotional and academic development of Chinese American children from immigrant families. The goal of the study is to identify the contextual (e.g., family, school, neighborhood, and culture) and individual (e.g., language, executive function, temperament) risk and protective factors...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesQing Zhou - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The research study examines the influence of grandparent involvement in childrearing with Chinese-American preschool-aged children. We collect child behavioral task data, questionnaire data, and parent-child interaction data...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesAndreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
COSI, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager, is a NASA-funded gamma-ray telescope which is currently under development and scheduled for launch in 2027. It will observe Galactic nucleosynthesis and positron annihilation, as well as the most violent events in our Universe (supernovae, neutron star mergers) and the most extreme...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAndreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a NASA high-altitude balloon mission designed to detect messengers of dark matter interactions in the galaxy. Apprentices are needed to participate in development and testing of both hardware and online software as GAPS prepares for a December 2024 launch from Antarctica. GAPS is...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science