Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Affiliates
The DataLab Affiliates program supports graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and non-faculty researchers with opportunities to grow their engagement in data science research and training to enrich the UC Davis community. Interested in becoming an Affiliate? See the latest call for applicants.
Current Affiliates
Maggie Berrens, Chemistry PhD StudentMaggie Berrens is a PhD student in Chemistry.
Ramon Botigelli is a postdoctoral fellow in Animal Science.
John Daniels is a Statistical Programming Consultant in the UC Davis College of Letters & Science.
Nicole Dodd is is a PhD student in Linguistics.
M.V. Eitzel is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Community and Citizen Science.
Femi Falade is a PhD student in Animal Biology.
Pablo M. Flores is a is a PhD student in Communication.
Adam Getchell studies quantum gravity using computational models. Adam has a general background in information technology and programming experience (C++, Python, C#, Lisp, Clojure, and F#, among others). Adam has experience with running MCMC (Monte Carlo Markov Chain) and related methods. Adam wants to learn R and more statistics, data science methods, and anything else related to collating/analyzing large data sets. Adam serves as the FARM compute cluster administrator, and contributes to the campus-wide Distributed Research Computing working group.
Ashley Grupenhoff is a PhD student in Ecology.
Shenwen Gu is a PhD student in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology.
Veronica Herrera is a master’s student in Geography.
Sarah Heuckeroth is a PhD student in Psychology.
Lisa Johnson is a PhD student in Psychology.
Richard Kornrumpf is a PhD student in Political Science.
Connor Mitchell is a PhD student in Sociology.
Anahita Pochiraju is a master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Tara Pozzi is a PhD student in Ecology and Environmental Science and Policy.
Sophie Preckler-Quisquater is a postdoctoral fellow in the Veterinary Genetics Lab.
Ary Razmara is a PhD student in Immunology.
Dino Sbardellati is a PhD student in Microbiology.
Cory Schlesener is a PhD student in Microbiology.
Daniela Soto is a PhD student in the Genome Center.
S. Hayley Steele is a PhD student in Cultural Studies.
Marcos Martínez Sugassti is a PhD student in Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Breanne Weber‘s research explores 16th and 17th century British literature via the intersections of early scientific and material epistemologies, book history, and the digital humanities. She holds an MA in English and a dual BA in English Literature and History from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Breanne is the current Digital Communications GSR at DataLab.
Liza Wood is an environmental social scientist, earning a PhD in Ecology with an emphasis in Computational Social Science. She studies innovation systems and policies related to agricultural seeds. Her research looks at how plant genetic material is accessed, used, and managed to understand agricultural systems’ readiness for climate change. Liza holds master’s degrees in Sustainability Science and Organic Farming and has conducted food systems research from a variety of disciplines. She is interested in network analysis, computational text analysis, and teaching the R programming language. Liza is the current TA for DataLab’s 2-quarter Adventures in Data Science course.
Sydney Wood is a PhD student in Psychology.
Andrea Yang is a PhD student in English.
Past and Alumni Affiliates
- Carrie Alexander
- Jamie Ashander
- Nick Bowden
- Andrew Bradshaw
- Teresa Filshtein
- Clark Fitzgerald
- Ryan James
- Gunasekaran Manogaran
- Julie Rushmore
- Zamirbek Akimbekov
- Dylan Antovich
- Ryan Barr
- Matthew Bates
- Michael Bissell
- Dillon Carlos
- Rinaldo Catta-Preta
- Gwen Chodur
- Katherine Corn
- Michael Culshaw-Maurer
- Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
- Scott Devine
- Nicholas Ellinwood
- Eduardo Estrada
- Cassie Ettinger
- Charlie Fornaca
- Shaun Geer
- Ehsan Gholami
- Danielle Hagood
- Lisa Huang
- Savannah Hunter
- Dana Iltis
- Jared Joseph
- Shaikh Mohammed Ismail
- Luiz Carlos Irber, Junior
- Shannon Joslin
- Hanna Kahl
- Melissa Kardish
- Eric Kalosa-Kenyon
- HannahJoy Kennedy
- Nick Lashinsky
- Yuefeng Liang
- Marina Lovchikova
- Samantha Maillie
- Hugo Mailhot
- Jeffrey Miller
- Taylor Nelsen
- Sean Noah
- Jose (Pepe) Ochoa
- Rich Pauloo
- Ryan Peek
- Ryan Phillips
- Samuel Pizelo
- Courtney Pollard
- Alejandro Ponce de León – Calero
- Abbie Popa
- Nistara Randhawa
- Jeff Rector
- Taylor Reiter
- Cameron Riddell
- Ashkan Saboori
- Soné Sanders
- Yiqun Shao
- Tyler Simons
- Ozan Sonmez
- Cory Struthers (Belden)
- Aleksandra Taranov
- Lida Anita To
- Gina Turco
- Nick Ulle
- Alexander Vining
- Guangxing Ken Wang
- Madeline Weeks
- Ellie White
- Sivan Yair
- Ziyuan He
- Sara Winsemius
- Martha Zillig