Team Lead: Angela Prakash

I am a graduating senior majoring in cognitive science and minoring in education, and I've been working with the DSEP student team, and leading the Outreach team, for a year and a half. As an interdisciplinary learner, what I love about the program is how well it bridges diverse students, majors, and disciplines. In my free time, I like to go on nature and food adventures, attend diverse events (particularly of the musical variety), and watch good sci-fi.

Niharika Jain

My name is Niharika Jain! I am a second year intended Stats and Econ major. My hobbies include binge watching House of Cards, singing off tune to Beyonce and Nicki Minaj, and playing tennis whenever I can. I am really interested by the work that BIDS does and I am glad to have gotten the opportunity to get involved with this new initiative.

Smita Balaji

I’m an Industrial Engineering and Operations Research major, hoping to minor in data science. In my free time, I’m on Cal’s Mock Trial team and am a Society of Women Engineers officer. Coming from an interdisciplinary major, I’m excited about the expanding Data Science at Cal and the new community that has been created around it. As a part of the outreach team, I’ve worked on spotlights of course staff and students, the Big Give video, and course marketing. In my free time and over breaks, I love listening to music, watching bougie movies, and traveling (I studied abroad in France last summer!)

Satoe Yokoyama

I’m a senior student studying applied mathematics. During this semester I mainly contributed to Facebook, video editing, as well as conducting interviews. It was exciting to interview students who study data science and know how excited they were in the classes. And also working with the outreach team was a great experience and I’m happy to lead the team next semester.

Rebecca Iysaght

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Diana Cherny

Hi! My name is Diana Cherny and I am a second year economics student at UC Berkeley. I’ve been working with the Data Science Education Program team since my freshman year and have enjoyed the unique experience of getting to take part in the behind the scenes development of the program. Through DSEP, I help find ways to improve the existing course and work on course marketing efforts on behalf of the Outreach Team. Last year, I worked on cultivating greater diversity within course as a member of the Diversity Team. Outside of DSEP, I’m involved with DiversaTech, a new tech consulting club on campus working on projects with companies like eBay and Autodesk as well as some local startups. When not studying, I enjoy spending time with my friends and family, brunching, and binge watching dramatic overly dramatic shows on Netflix.

Alexander Lieberman

My name is Alexander Lieberman and I am a second year intended business major at UC Berkeley. I’ve been involved with BIDS and the Data Science Education Program since taking Data 8 during my freshman year. I’ve loved being able to maintain a hands on role in growing the data science community at Berkeley, and be able to see it evolve first hand. I’ve enjoyed working on the Outreach team, not only developing our social media presence, but also providing content that the community loves! Outside of BIDS, I am a member of the Cal Men’s Lacrosse team and I love binge watching Netflix!

--PROJECTS--

Learn about the projects Outreach has been working on.

Course Marketing

The team improved standardization of marketing materials, created flyers for all core courses/connectors, and conducted a large marketing push for courses and connectors.

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Promotional Video

The team successfully completed the first promotional video launch!

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Social Media

The team launched a twitter account for DSEP, got 1,000 DSEP facebook fans (and generally very high engagement), and gathered a collection of spotlights of DSEP community members.

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