Cloud Computing

Oleksandr Volkov

My name is Oleksandr Volkov. I am a Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer with a strong background in software engineering, statistics, and applied research. After graduating with honors in Software Engineering from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, I am now pursuing a Master’s degree in Statistics with a specialization in Machine Learning at the University of California, Berkeley. I am particularly interested in the intersection of applied statistics, machine learning, AI, and cloud technologies, and how these can be leveraged to solve complex economic and...

Jasmine Guan

Jasmine is a Master of Analytics student in the IEOR department. She previously worked at Verisk Analytics as a Data Scientist, with main focus on machine learning in text classification, fraud detection, and satellite image processing. As a Domain Consultant, she works on data transfer and management. Her main interests are in Machine Learning, Optimization, and Database Management.

Chris Paciorek

Chris Paciorek is a statistical computing consultant and adjunct professor in the Department of Statistics. He also serves part-time as a user consultant for Berkeley Research Computing.

Areas of expertise: high-performance computing, cloud computing, and programming for data analysis/data science/statistics.

In his research, Chris works on statistical methods, often Bayesian methods, applied to environmental and public health problems, including climate science, ecology, and global health. In recent years, he has taught graduate classes on statistical computing and...

Rick McGeer

Rick is a Berkeley PhD from EECS who's done extensive work in industrial research and startups in Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Computer Networking, and Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits He's particularly interested in democratizing access to computing systems and data.

Joleen Locanas

Joleen helps on the Secure Research Data and Compute platform and brings deep expertise in service management and service design from her work in bIT.

Jason C. Christopher

I am a Research Computing Architect, Service Lead and Information Security Officer in Research IT at UC Berkeley. I currently manage the:

Secure Research Data and Computation (SRDC) Platform, providing secure, scalable, customized virtual machines, and high performance computing (HPC) for research with sensitive and protected data. The Platform serves schools and departments across campus, ranging in study from...

Fengchen Liu

Fengchen just joined the group as a Science IT Consultant. Prior to joining the Lab, he worked at a Fintech company as a senior AI Engineer, at RMS (Risk Management Solutions) as a Software Engineer, and at UC San Francisco for 7 years on computational epidemiology using HPC. His research background (researchgate.net/profile/fengchen_liu) includes predictive models of infectious diseases and control of epidemic disease...

Ken Lutz

Director of Research IT

Mark Yashar

Research IT / BRC Domain Consultant and HPC User Support; Research Specialist at UCB CITRIS

Clint Hamilton

Clint Hamilton is a Domain Consultant with Berkeley Research Computing and a PhD student in Finance at the Haas School of Business. His research focuses on behavioral finance. Additionally, he is interested in big data and high performance computing.