Cybersecurity & Data Security

Empowering Secure Research at Berkeley: How SRDC is Enabling Data-Driven Discovery

December 4, 2025
Catherine Wang

As research data becomes increasingly complex and regulated, UC Berkeley’s Secure Research Data and Computing (SRDC) Platform and service have become an essential part of the campus research ecosystem. Made possible by funding from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Division of Undergraduate Education, and Berkeley IT, SRDC is developed and maintained by Research IT (Christopher et al., 2022). SRDC provides a secure, high-performance environment for...

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...

Navigating Research Data Security

October 2, 2025

Navigating Research Data Security

October 14, 11am-12pm (on Zoom)

Register: Via Zoom

Your research is important, and we are here to help keep it safe and secure. Join the Information Security Office and...

Rick Jaffe

Guidance and referrals regarding data management strategies; DMPs for grants; data discovery, storage, security, privacy, sharing, publication, and preservation.

Cybersecurity for Researchers

April 18, 2024
Catherine Wang

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

1pm via Zoom

Registration

Your research is important and we are here to help keep it safe and secure. This brown bag session will focus on secure campus tools and services that Research IT and Berkeley IT offer to researchers, tips on navigating campus security processes, and cybersecurity best practices for keeping your research and research subjects safe. You will hear from Allison...

Amy Neeser

As the Consulting + Outreach Lead in Research IT at UC Berkeley, I coordinate the consulting efforts across the Data Management and Research Computing programs to offer a holistic approach to data and computation. I have experience working with data across the research lifecycle and my research interests include equity in STEM, interdisciplinary and open digital scholarship, innovative uses of technologies in academic environments, and critical digital literacy. I also facilitate Research IT's community, partnership, and outreach programs.

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Noah Baker

Noah is a recent MPH graduate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and is headed to UCSF's BMI PhD program. His research is focused on modeling and predicting disease, with projects in East Africa and California. As a Domain Consultant, Noah works with the clinical data collection tool REDCap and the Secure Data Research Compute (SRDC) infrastructure. He has interests in epidemiological/healthcare big data, HPC utilization, and machine learning.

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.

Erin Foster

Erin is the Service Lead for the UC Berkeley Research Data Management Program. In this role, Erin oversees the program and its services to academic departments and service units and is responsible for providing leadership and collaborative coordination to ensure the success of this university-wide program. Erin supports researchers with services related to the management of research data. These services range from communicating best practices to advising on available technical solutions to offering a sympathetic ear. Erin collaborates with colleagues to...