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Marjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
LBNL researchers developed a novel method to restore early sound recordings using methods from precision optical metrology and data analysis (see: irene.lbl.gov). These methods have been applied to a number of important historical collections of early recorded sound. Over the past two years a project at the Smithsonian Institution in...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
A statewide effort was launched in 2020 to respond to pandemic-accelerated social and emotional needs of young people in schools. This project aims to build capacity at County Offices of Education around California to become regional hubs to support the delivery of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in schools...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research doesn’t always involve the youth themselves. This project will train and support undergraduate students to create SEL tools for a statewide youth program: Friday Night Live. Specific...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology is a research unit in the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies for our excavation and research program at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, Greece. The Center archive houses a photographic and text archive that is in the process of being re...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
MYCENAE, largest and wealthiest of the palatial citadels of the Late Bronze Age, has been under investigation for more almost 150 years. The site, Petsas House, is a large building complex in the largely unexplored main settlement area. The current project was initiated in 2000 and has uncovered at least...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesNa'ama Shenhav - Professor , Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Beyond being a source of income, jobs can potentially convey information about a worker’s abilities, personality, or values. For example, individuals may assume that a person who is a teacher is empathetic, or that a lawyer is assertive. In turn, this could imply that a person’s job may affect how...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichal Shuldman - Assistant Teaching Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project looks at how undergraduate biology students perceive their instructors' practices in introductory courses at a large research university. While most education reform efforts in biology focus on “inclusive teaching” have been defined by instructors and researchers, there hasn’t been much focus on how students themselves view inclusion. We’re...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSarah Singh - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Myopia (nearsightedness) is a common vision condition that results in the need for glasses or contact lenses in order to see distant objects clearly. Myopia is caused by the eyes growing longer than they are supposed to, and so there are also many negative eye health consequences associated with myopia...
Biological & Health SciencesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Risk-Resilience Research (RRR) is a fun, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of students, staff, and scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Our mission is to improve justice, safety, and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. The RRR lab is directed by Professor Jennifer Skeem...
Social SciencesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
About Us Risk-Resilience Research (RRR) is a fun, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of students, staff, and scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Our mission is to improve justice, safety, and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. The RRR lab is directed by Professor...
Social SciencesCarolyn Smith - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) at UC Berkeley has a collection of literature and assessments related to Native American cultural heritage and the history of archaeological work in the western US states. The goal of this project is to catalog the collection of ARF literature and reports in order to...
Jae Ho Sohn - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Radiologists are doctors who specialize in extracting clinically useful information from medical images (such as CT, chest X-ray, and MRIs) and communicating these findings with other doctors. We leverage abstract clinical reasoning and visual pattern recognition skills to extract hidden information in the images that may be important for...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in diverse and critical applications, ranging from customer service to decision support systems. As these agents become more integral to various domains, ensuring their safety and trustworthiness is paramount to prevent misuse, unintended behaviors, and to build user confidence. This project focuses...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
As AI models become more complex, understanding their internal decision-making processes becomes increasingly challenging. This project aims to advance the interpretability of AI systems, making their operations transparent and their decisions explainable to users and developers alike. Areas of focus include: - Explainable AI Techniques: Developing methods such as attention...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The intersection of AI and software security presents unique opportunities and challenges. This project focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance secure code generation and protect software systems from vulnerabilities. Key objectives include: - Secure Code Generation: Developing AI models that can generate code snippets with built-in security best practices...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the field of mathematics by automating theorem proving and assisting in complex mathematical research. This project explores the application of AI techniques to enhance automated reasoning and support mathematicians in their work. Areas of investigation include: - Automated Theorem Proving: Developing AI models that...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCarol Spencer - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
We are taking new students for Prep Lab Assistant, Bone Numbering and Tag Tying, Bird, Herp, Fish and Mammal Curatorial Assistants. See descriptions below. At the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), University of California, Berkeley, we offer many unique opportunities to participate in MVZ endeavors and learn about natural history...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at lcdmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "LCD Lab Fall 2025 Research Assistant Interest". Special instructions for this project: Please upload a pdf of your resume to a google form for which you will receive the link...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at lcdmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "LCD Lab Fall 2025 Research Assistant Interest". Special instructions for this project: Please upload a pdf of your resume to a google form for which you will receive the link...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
During 2020-2021, families were often forced to change their daily routines and encountered newfound or exacerbated life stressors. We are interested in exploring whether these changes impacted parent-child conversations each day. This study researches parents’ and children’s daily routines during the COVID-19 pandemic through surveys that measure activities...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Differences in academic achievement between high and low socioeconomic status (SES) children arise at a very early age. Understanding the factors that give rise to these differences is essential for understanding the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The East Bay Financial Needs Study (EBFNS) tests the idea that the psychological experience...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesSameer Srivastava - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMax Staller - Assistant Researcher, Center for Computational Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
It is now clear that roughly a third of the amino acids in human proteins are intrinsically disordered and do not fold into a single 3D structure. Some of these regions transiently fold when bound to partners, but many simply wiggle between many confirmations. These disordered regions cannot be visualized...
Biological & Health SciencesMax Staller - Assistant Researcher, Center for Computational Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Transcription factors contain DNA binding domains and separate activation domains that bind coactivator complexes. DNA binding domains are conserved, structured and can be predicted from amino acid sequence. Activation domains are intrinsically disordered (they do not fold into a single 3D structure), poorly conserved and cannot be predicted from amino...
Biological & Health SciencesMax Staller - Assistant Researcher, Center for Computational Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Our group has developed simple and highly predictive models for transcriptional activation domains. The goal of the project is to identify human activation domains enriched for patient mutations...
Biological & Health SciencesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The design of data centers carries significant implications for our understanding of sustainability, national sovereignty, and the sociopolitical nature of infrastructure, yet architectural perspectives are largely absent from contemporary scholarship. Architecture plays a crucial role in shaping social life, the environment, and concretizing borders. This project brings architecture to the...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Over the past two years, Berkeley undergraduates have been researching the hidden environmental costs of the internet, publishing their findings in industry journals, presenting at high profile industry and academic conferences, and teaching over 125 students from 32 different majors in a DeCal called Building A Sustainable Internet. We are...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Data centers are currently responsible for 4% of United States power usage, and that number is projected to increase to 6.7-12% in 2028. Companies in the sector are increasingly considering nuclear energy (and specifically small modular reactors) to power their data centers, but missing from these conversations (and the research...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesDaniel Stolper, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Relative humidity is a key climate variable that controls local landscape form (e.g., desert vs. tropical). We currently have limited ways to reconstruct relative humidity in the geological past. Our lab has created a novel geochemical proxy for the reconstruction of past relative humidity (i.e., a ‘paleohygrometer’). It is based...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesScott Straus - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
How should scholars conceptualize contemporary African International Relations? In today’s increasingly multipolar world, many African states are dialing back relations with traditional partners—such as France—and engaging with a broader suite of states outside the region. While China has been increasingly active on the continent since the 1990s, several...
Social SciencesVirginia Sturm - Professor, Neurology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In the Clinical Affective Neuroscience (CAN) lab, we conduct research on the neurobiological basis of affective symptoms in neurodegenerative diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders. Our lab utilizes a variety of assessments (psychophysiology, facial coding, and self-reported experience) to quantify emotion and social functioning in real-world and laboratory settings. Our...
Biological & Health SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The purpose of this proposed research is to investigate the impact of air pollution exposure on metabolic outcomes, specifically focusing on Type 2 diabetes patients in California. The study aims to address the existing gaps in the literature by conducting large population-based studies at the state level with high...
Biological & Health SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The overarching objective of this proposal is to create comprehensive cumulative impact indices that encompass the effects of both chemical and non-chemical stressors at the community level throughout the entire State. These indices will be developed using scientifically rigorous metrics, thereby furnishing robust tools to inform policy formulation including...
Biological & Health SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of this study is to build upon previous work by examining statewide air pollution exposure and life expectancy disparities across generations and within communities. The specific objectives of the research are as follows: 1. Conduct a systematic literature review, using peer-reviewed journal papers to identify effects of...
Biological & Health SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project aims to assess the spatial and temporal distribution of brake and tire wear (BTW) concentrations across the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) and their potential health impacts on vulnerable communities. The research will apply advanced source apportionment algorithms to quantify BTW profiles at both various field sampling sites, using...
Biological & Health SciencesSandya Subramanian - Professor, Computational Precision Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab develops novel clinical-grade wearable sensors for at-home monitoring of chronic disease. We currently have or are in the process of developing new sensors for monitoring stomach muscle activity and bladder muscle activity from the surface of the skin, which would be a groundbreaking advance for many...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesSandya Subramanian - Professor, Computational Precision Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab develops novel clinical-grade wearable sensors for at-home monitoring of chronic disease. We currently have or are in the process of developing new sensors for monitoring multiple physiological signals from the surface of the skin, which would open the door to at-home personalized medicine for many...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Picuris Pueblo Collaborative Field Program is a community-based archaeological and anthropological project between the University of Arizona, Columbia University, Southern Methodist University, and Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico near Taos. The project is seeking to map and record the outlying field structures surrounding the present-day Pueblo. Melanie...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Our partnered project is a community-based, collaborative partnership involving Berkeley archaeologists and the Colfax-Todds Valley and Shingle Springs InterTribal Ecological Restoration (INTER) Crew. Tribal Leaders from Colfax-Todds Valley Considated Tribes and Shingle Springs Band of Miwok mentor our research at their Ancestral Places in the foothills of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Archaeological Research Facility is teaming with us to develop detailed photorealistic 3D models of WW2 aircraft that went down in remote areas. The project team has begun detailed photo documentation of vintage aircraft in museums and private collections to understand what airframe components (hard points and high-density parts...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Ghost Ranch rockshelter archaeology project is a community-based archaeological and anthropological project between the University of California and Ghost Ranch Museums in New Mexico near Abiquiu. The project is seeking to map and record the features in a 3000 year old rockshelter site for which out team is...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesEve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
It has long been known that co-speech gesture reveals aspects of on-line cognition which may not be revealed in speech itself. This project investigates the usage of gestures accompanying modals (e.g. CAN, MUST, MAY, SHOULD) and conditionals (IF-clauses), to see what understandings of modality and conditional relationships...
Social SciencesEve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This group is a multilingual project, examining discourse about COVID-19 and about global climate change, in North American English, French and Spanish varieties, as well as in French of France. (A side project on Mandarin metaphor is not funded, but is also ongoing.) We are using the Coronavirus corpus...
Social SciencesIan Swinburne - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
During development, cells self-organize to form functioning tissues, organs, and entire organisms. This requires tightly regulated communication between cells and their environment, to ensure correct signal uptake, integration, and response. Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is a major pathway by which cells take up extracellular cues and thus communicate with...
Biological & Health Sciences