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People

Meet some of the outstanding faculty, researchers and staff who make up the DataX community.

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Safiya Noble
Safiya Umoja Noble
Faculty Director of Data Justice and Critical Data Studies
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Christopher Johanson
Chris Johanson
Faculty Director of Applied | Creative Data
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George Michailidis
Faculty Director, Fundamental Data Science
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Eleazar Eskin
Eleazar Eskin
Executive Director of DataX
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Mark Handcock
Mark Handcock
Emeritus Faculty Director of Fundamental Data Science
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Sarah Roberts
Sarah Roberts
Associate Director, Faculty Engagement
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Professor Jacqueline Alderson of DataX wearing a very colorful floral shirt, smiling
Jacqueline Alderson
Director, Tech and Human Performance; Special Advisor for the Los Angeles Olympics, LA28
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Cindy Anh Nguyen
Community Engagement
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DataX Postdoctoral Fellow, Shazeda Ahmed
Shazeda Ahmed
DataX Postdoctoral Scholar
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Yifan Chen
Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Mathematics
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Guang Cheng
Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Director of Trustworthy AI Lab
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Clara Choi
Instructional Designer
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Lisa Denenmark, Director of Communications
Lisa Denenmark
Director, Communications
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Jacky Duong
Jacky Duong
Executive Assistant
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Craig Enders
Professor, Quantitative Psychology, Department of Psychology
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Homa Hosseinmardi
Assistant Professor of Data Science (DataX) and Computational Communication
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Meadow Jones PhD
Meadow Jones
DataX Postdoctoral Scholar
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Kenneth Kuo
Kenneth Kuo
Senior Financial Analyst
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Sijia Li
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health
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Lauren Lee McCarthy
Professor, Design Media Arts and Disability Studies
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Zion Ariana Mengesha
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
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Jasmine Mora
Event and Marketing Specialist
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Jens Palsberg
Professor of Computer Science
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Drago Plecko, DataX affiliated faculty, wearing a plaid shirt in a garden.
Drago Plecko
Assistant Professor, Statistics & Data Science
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Julia Powles, ED of UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy
Julia Powles
Director, Tech Policy
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Damla Senturk
Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics
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Olivia Snow
Research Fellow, UCLA’s Center on Resilience & Digital Justice
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Susan Swarts
Susan Swarts
Administrative Director
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Melissa Villa-Nicholas
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies
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Wei Wang
Leonard Kleinrock Professor in Computer Science and Director, Scalable Analytics Institute (ScAi)
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