Alex is a Research Computing Intern and in his final year studying computer science at UC Berkeley. His research involves studying the circadian rhythms of malaria parasites and computer vision for mosquito behavior. He also organizes Cal Hacks, Berkeley's hackathon.
San Vu is a Research Computing Intern and an undergraduate majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His interests include high performance computing, automation, and IC design.
Jeffrey Jacob is a Research IT Domain Consultant and a current Graduate Student studying Molecular Science and Software Engineering. His current research involves tailoring Large Language Models to dissect scientific literature and predict future hotspots of research. Some of Jeffrey’s interests include Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry and High Performance Computing.
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.
Christian is a Research IT Domain Consultant and 5th Year PhD student in Civil & Environmental Engineering. His research interests include using omic techniques to evaluate the microbial ecology of biological nitrogen removal systems. He is also interested in using computational tools to understand trends and patterns in genomic data.
Hamza is a Research Computing Intern and an undergraduate majoring in Computer Science and Statistics. His professional interests include Data Science and System Administration/DevOps. His other interests include exploring random tunnels and hiking with friends at 4 AM.
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 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...
Manager, High Performance Computing Services
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