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Paul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In your application, please indicate whether you are interested in project 2A or 2B - 2A, LIFT: general comms, events, and website support - 2B, LIFT: Blockchain white paper The Lab for Inclusive FinTech (LIFT) is a new and exciting initiative housed at the Institute for Business and Social Impact at Haas...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Lab for Inclusive FinTech (LIFT) is a new and exciting initiative housed at the Institute for Business and Social Impact at Haas. Personalization of financial technology (Fintech) promises to transform the financial well-being of customers and financial firms alike and generate new opportunities in the fields of decision...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Project 4. Research on labor economics and inequality in the United States Project abstract: This project has two goals. First, this project investigates the extent to which racial preferences in labor demand practices prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reinforced occupational sorting or exclusion of black employees across...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The ability to quantitatively measure changes to the central nervous system is approaching a crucial milestone for neuro-imaging - the ability to measure change on an individual patient level. The Multiple Sclerosis Center at UCSF, in concert with our partners, has prioritized the development of a panoply of neuro-imaging...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF’s Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Department of Neurology are excited to offer a combined educational and research opportunity for motivated undergraduate students in the medical imaging research team. 3D segmentation of structures in the brain and spinal cord is a problem that deep learning is uniquely equipped...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF’s Department of Neurology has some of the largest clinical neuroimaging datasets in the world. As the director of imaging for the multiple sclerosis group, Dr. Roland Henry’s laboratory is in charge of making sense of this data and applying next generation analytical techniques to translate this raw data into...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Herr - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Imaging data forms the backbone of modern bioengineering research. Analysis of imaging data benefits from creative, methodical algorithm design, rigorous validation, and water-tight documentation and training of users. The student will work independently, in a self-directed but supervised manner to design, develop, validate, and deploy an image processing...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCharlie Huizenga - Research Specialist, Center for Environmental Design Research
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Advanced Berkeley Comfort (ABC) Model is recognized as one of the world's most advanced human thermal comfort models. It simulates many detailed aspects of human thermophysiology (including blood flow, sweating, metabolic activity, thermoreceptor response) and heat transfer (convective, conductive, radiative, evaporative) to predict skin and core temperatures throughout the...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCharlie Huizenga - Research Specialist, Center for Environmental Design Research
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The aim of the project is to develop a web-interactive tool that converts a user’s 15-minute data (i.e. Green Button Data upload or API request) into actual grid carbon emissions (i.e. using Watttime’s API). The tool will have data visualizations that display user’s electricity data and carbon emissions...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCharlie Huizenga - Research Specialist, Center for Environmental Design Research
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) has developed a cost-effective, web-based survey that takes approximately ten minutes to complete. The survey is intuitive and streamlined, preserves the co Developed in 2000 by CBE, the survey has been implemented in over 1,000 building around the world, with responses...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCharlie Huizenga - Research Specialist, Center for Environmental Design Research
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Over 2 billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water. Many organizations are working to provide water systems to poor, rural communities across the globe. Gravity-flow water systems, where water flows by gravity without any mechanical pumping, are commonly used in areas with appropriate...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYehuda Kalay - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The performance of healthcare facilities is an important issue due to the high value of the services they provide on one hand, and the high cost of constructing and operating them on the other. Various disciplines have offered measures to assess such performance, focusing on different indicators. The healthcare industry...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDaniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
California has committed to fully eliminate carbon pollution from electricity by the year 2045, by passing landmark state bill SB100. Alongside, several bills have been passed to move towards deep emissions reduction in all sectors, including buildings and transport. Decarbonizing existing buildings (around 13 million residential homes along with large...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesDaniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The technological basis for launching and operating orbiting solar generating plants is rapidly improving due to decreases in the cost of rocket launches ($/kg of payload), and improvements in durable thin-film solar and microwave beaming technology. The project is to build data-sets to inform a series of projections...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesDaniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The purpose of this project is to collect, analyze and visualize data on energy, transportation, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, GHG drivers, household carbon footprints, climate action planning, and equity into a single, data-driven climate action portal for all California cities and communities...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesDaniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project focuses on assessment of energy system resources, GHG balances and design of regional opportunities for expansion of distributed generation and micro grids in urban-agriculture interface zones across regions in California and regions with similar geo-physical resources and socio-economic features. The project will use Geographic Information...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesGalateia Kazakia - Professor, UC San Francisco, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Our research group focuses on advanced imaging techniques for the study of musculoskeletal structure and function (for details please see: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/research/kazakia). For this project, we plan to use two recently developed imaging tools to investigate the structure and composition of bone. State-of-the-art micro computed...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesGalateia Kazakia - Professor, UC San Francisco, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Our research group focuses on advanced imaging techniques for the study of musculoskeletal structure and function (for details please see: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/research/kazakia). For this project, we will be performing advanced image processing and analysis on high resolution computed tomography (CT) images of the skeleton. These images are being...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesWaqas Khalid - Associate Scientist, BNC
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Be the first to utilize/use cutting edge nanotechnology developed by Dr. Waqas Khalid, Berkeley Scientist and collaborators to solve problems in healthcare, energy and semiconductor industries. Join Dr. Khalid’s URAP program and learn about nanostructure based devices that have applications in monitoring human health, energy harvesting, energy storage, environmental...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMimi Koehl - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
We are studying the biomechanics and biofluiddynamics of how organisms interact with their physical environments. Our interdisciplinary work is at the interface between biology and engineering, so students majoring in biology, engineering, physics, or math have all participated in research in our lab. There are a variety of projects that...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesLu Liang - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The summer of 2023 witnessed record-breaking temperatures, with July being marked as the hottest month on record. The southern United States bore the brunt of this heat catastrophe, exemplified by the Dallas-Fort Worth area's numerous daily high temperature records—20 days surpassing 105°F and 42 days exceeding...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesLu Liang - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The urban heat island (UHI) and urban pollution island (UPI) represent critical socio-environmental challenges that have a global impact on cities. These phenomena, characterized by elevated temperatures and increased pollution levels compared to non-urban areas, are the result of significant shifts in human settlement patterns and associated anthropogenic...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesSamuel Lucas - Professor, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Sociologists have differing, even contradictory views of causality. From May 2019 to July 2021 we interviewed several influential ethnographers, qualitative interviewers, statistical researchers, comparative historical analysts, and philosophers about causality. On this project we will proofread the transcripts, add emotion markers, and during a weekly project meeting discuss their perspectives...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesEric Y. Ma - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Highly sensitive microwave (MW) reflectometry, like those used in Microwave Impedance Microscopy for probing local electronic properties in solids (see e.g. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6260/538), have been built with bulky, expensive, highly specialized, mostly manually controlled components so far. This project aims to explore the possibility of using all-digital...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesEric Y. Ma - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The future of work is being shaped by a combination of extended reality, robotics and real-time virtualization -- the “digital twins” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin). In this project you will design and build the digital twin of a modern Physics/EE lab that provides nearly real-time info on...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesEric Y. Ma - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Having a virtual assistant who has read and internalized decades of scientific literature is a dream that may come true in the next decade. Such an assistant will significantly speed up scientific discovery and understanding by human scientists, and eventually become agents of new knowledge itself. To make this a...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSimo Makiharju - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Gas-liquid flows play an important role in the environment, and in many transportation, biological and industrial processes. The FLOW lab is presently studying 1) structures of gas jets in water, 2) gas entertainment by plunging water jets, 3) air-water flows for frictional drag reduction, and 4) forces on...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJuan Carlos Martinez Oliveros - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Much of the high-energy Universe remains an enigma, with some phenomena that have been discovered—like gamma-ray bursts, magnetar flares, and supernovae— still to be studied, analyzed and better understood. With the development of technology in the soft/medium gamma-ray regime, we are able to “see” the...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSara McMains - Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Additive Manufacturing (aka 3D Printing) is a set of relatively novel manufacturing techniques that were originally used for prototyping but are increasingly used to fabricate end-use parts, which requires higher quality manufacturing. The goal of this project is to improve the quality of 3D printed parts using machine learning...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesRaul Monsalve - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Radio Cosmology Group (RCG) at the Space Sciences Laboratory is a leader in the study of the first billion years of the Universe through the design and operation of state-of-the art radio frequency instrumentation to measure radio waves from space. We are seeking an undergraduate research assistant...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesAbhishek Nagaraj - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects that the professor (Abhishek) is working on along in his Data Innovation Lab with PhD students and other research assistants in the Berkeley-Haas School of Business. The idea of this URAP group is to provide students...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesKaren Nakamura - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Disability Lab (https://disabilitylab.berkeley.edu/) has been working on several projects involving disability, technology, art, activism, and access in the Bay Area. We welcome students from all fields of the university (arts, engineering, social sciences, communications, CS, design, music, architecture, etc.), and people with personal experience of disability or...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesKara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Direct potable reuse is a form of wastewater reuse where advanced-treated wastewater is introduced directly to the drinking water distribution system. Bench-scale reactors will be used to simulate drinking water distribution system pipes before and during the transition to direct potable reuse conditions. Microbial water quality parameters will...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesKara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Recovering nutrients from wastewater can solve two problems: reducing eutrophication by eliminating nutrient discharges to the environment, and producing a local fertilizer that has lower embedded energy than industrial fertilizer. Our research aims to produce fertilizer by concentrating ammonium from wastewater and urine using struvite precipitation (for phosphorus) and ion...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesKara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Over-dependence on non-renewable inputs and carbon-intensive processes for fertilizer production contribute to the growing challenge of feeding the world’s 7 billion people. Alternatively, it is estimated that the nutrients in human urine could offset one-third of the conventional fertilizer demand in agriculture. In this research, we...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
UCB campus: Bees are responsible for pollination of many food crops and native plants. Moths larvae (caterpillars) are important herbivores of native and domesticated plants. Both bees and moths, therefore, are important indicators of ecosystem health. We are currently working to take high resolution photographs of of the hundreds of...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Essig Museum is part of an ongoing large-scale collecting effort on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. We are collecting vast quantities of bizarre and fascinating arthropods, some of which will be new to science. The two main goals of the project are to document the biological diversity...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Essig Museum, in collaboration with other several California institutions, is building a DNA barcode reference library for all species of insects in the state. This includes extracting DNA from identified museum specimens as well as collecting fresh specimens from around the state. The end goal is to develop a...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Natural History Museums are repositories for biodiversity research, documentation of the impacts of global change, and a resource for new and innovative science. Managing these collections requires expertise in many disparate disciplines such as library science, anatomy & morphology, taxonomy, and data management. The Essig Museum houses over 5 million specimens...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMarit Oieroset - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Earth’s magnetotail is a dynamic space plasma environment where energy is continuously built up and released in the form of high-speed plasma jets, high energy particles, and bright auroral displays. The main physical process responsible for this energy release is believed to be magnetic reconnection, a universal plasma...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesZachary Pardos - Professor, School of Information and Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The AskOski project (https://askoski.berkeley.edu/about) is a research and development effort lead by Professor Pardos to transfer the latest in big data and machine learning research to the domain of course guidance in higher ed. The recommender system is live in-production at Berkeley, with partial deployments at several...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesZachary Pardos - Professor, School of Information and Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Adaptive tutoring systems are designed to provide students in K-12 and intro college courses a personalized homework experience. This means giving the right problem to a student at the right time based given a continuous assessment of their mastery of a skill. At Berkeley, the ALEKS system is used...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
A main challenge in time domain astronomy is that of classifying different types of high-energy transients from large datasets solely based on imaging data or sparse spectroscopic observations. As part of this project, the student will use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to identify different classes of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Strong gravitational lenses are very rare occurrences and are a powerful tool in studying dark matter and dark energy, two mysterious entities that together account for 95% of the energy in the universe. The strong lensing team works on a range of projects with state-of-the-art computation/machine...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Type Ia supernovae are used to measure the rate at which our Universes is expanding, today and over the past 10 billion years. In the past we used Type Ia supernovae to discover that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Now we have developed new techniques for doing...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Sense & Sensibility & Science is a project which brings together researchers and educators to improve the way we use science to make decisions. Humans make decisions every day. As individuals, voters, and citizens of the world, the choices we make have the power to shape the world around us. The problem...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Pickering Lab at UC Berkeley is currently developing SOIL-SEQ, a hands-on education module for local high school classrooms designed to engage students in a crowdsourcing effort to provide data to better understand the spread of bacterial antibiotic resistance through the environment. We are using cutting-edge, portable...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Globally, in settings without safe water access, women and girls are responsible for the majority of household water management. The time burden of water fetching has been described in the scientific literature, but the time burden of household water treatment is not well quantified. Depending on the treatment strategy, household...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Fecal waste from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) is a known reservoir of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and contaminants from these industrial cattle, poultry, and swine farms can pollute air, soil, and waterways. CAFO workers, their household members, and residents of high-density CAFO communities are at risk of livestock...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Inadequate safe water infrastructure at health facilities places patients at risk for infection and other poor health outcomes, yet 20% of health facilities globally lack even a basic level of water access. To provide low-cost water treatment, the Pickering Lab has been developing a passive in-line chlorination technology...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies