URAP

Aruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     

Virtual Coworking platforms (e.g. CoFocus, Focusmate, Flow Club, Groove) have experienced a surge in popularity during the pandemic, especially among students, remote workers, and entrepreneurs/solopreneuers. We are in the early stages of analysis, so we are primarily seeking additional employment and demographic information of virtual coworkers from their LinkedIn...

Aruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project examines gender differences in productivity and engagement in remote work settings. Conducted with software testers in India, the experiment involves a comprehensive analysis of work patterns, interruptions, and productivity metrics in both remote and in-person settings. The study employs multiple data collection methods, including video observations, surveys...

Aruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This is a science-of-science / computational social science project examining how different empirical methods are used—and what impact they have—in papers published in leading management journals...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Founded in 2004, the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) conducts experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social scientists. Xlab supports UC Berkeley’s world class research by providing resources such as access to participant pools, experiment coordination, payment support, access to softwares, and more. It also provides technical and...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Technology is rapidly changing, giving humans more options than ever to decide how to communicate with each other. Whereas online options to engage with others are expanding, in-person contact seems to be decreasing. How are these changes affecting the way people connect with each other? How does this affect...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

If humans are social animals, then why do they choose to remain disconnected with people sometimes? Here we explore when people don’t want to connect with others, such as when they are strangers. In one set of studies, we asked strangers to have conversations on public transportation (e.g., buses, cabs...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Human-GAI Interaction is inevitably becoming more common. We seek to address the following research questions: 1. What are the pros and cons of mandatory disclosure of non-political deepfake commercials? Would the disclosure affect people's trust towards the political information they see? 2. How could GAI aid crowd-based...

Park Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...

Park Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...

Park Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...

Park Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...

Cailin Slattery - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects in industrial organization and political economy, including topics on lobbying, state government, and business subsidies. Examples of ongoing projects include work on regulations that prevent Tesla from selling cars directly to consumers, and the state's use of...

Sameer Srivastava - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Professor Sameer Srivastava uses computational methods to: (1) unpack the complex interrelationships between group culture, individual cognition, and interpersonal networks; and (2) examine how they jointly relate to individual attainment and organizational performance. Professor Srivastava directs the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation and the Berkeley-Stanford Computational Culture...

J. Miguel Villas-Boas - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are looking for motivated and responsible undergraduate students to help in a research project in the Quantitative Marketing group at Berkeley Haas. This project studies the rapidly evolving business AI market. This position is a great fit for students interested in AI, technology, markets, and data-driven research...

J. Miguel Villas-Boas - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The project studies AI bias and how AI-generated information can shape consumer perceptions and market outcomes, using real-world data and machine-generated outputs. This role is a strong fit for students who want hands-on experience with LLMs/ML + empirical analysis in an active research environment. Qualified students...

Guo Xu - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

This project studies the time use of presidents by digitizing and leveraging the presidential diaries (1900-2017). The presidential diaries contain hourly information about activities and meetings of presidents throughout history, allowing us to take an unusually close look at how different political leaders allocate their time and attention...

Guo Xu - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Many business schools offer a course on business ethics. Does being exposed to business ethics make you a more ethical business leader? Despite being a simple question, the answer is quite ambiguous. This project aims to answer the question...