I am a male Ugandan, aged 48, Married with 2 girls. I hold a Doctoral Degree in Applied Statistics, a Masters of Statistics and a B.Sc (Math, Physics) with Education. I have taught Mathematics and Physics at secondary school level for 13 years, taught Industrial Statistical Modelling and Statistical Methods at Makerere…
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Thad Dunning
Thad Dunning is Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and directs the Center on the Politics of Development. He studies comparative politics, political economy, and research methods. His current work on ethnic and other cleavages draws on field and natural experiments and qualitative fieldwork in Latin America, India,…
Jordan Robert Axt
I am a fifth-year social psychology graduate student at the University of Virginia. I work primarily with Brian Nosek, Sophie Trawalter, and Shige Oishi. I study how social categories shape implicit and explicit evaluation as well as decision-making. I am interested in becoming a BITSS Catalyst to help provide an early career…
Baobao Zhang
I am a third year PhD student in political science at Yale University currently researching as an exchange scholar at MIT. My research focuses on public policy and political science methodology. In the past, I have worked as an intern developer at Plotly, a data visualization software startup that promotes data transparency…
Dena Plemmons
My recent work with colleagues at UCRiverside explores the possibility of increasing transparency and communication within and among labs in the physical, life, and biomedical sciences through both purposeful ethics training, and the use of the OSF platform.
Dief Reagen Nochi Faha
Dief Reagen Nochi Faha is a PhD candidate at the laboratory of research and analysis in mathematical economics at the University of Yaoundé II, Soa in Cameroon. He obtained his MSc in Applied Economics from the University of Yaoundé II and MSc in Economic and Financial Engineering from the University of Rennes 1 in…
J. Scott Long
J. Scott Long is Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Statistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Long was awarded a 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Leader in Education category for his work authoring widely read textbooks on reproducibility, including The Workflow of Data Analysis Using Stata.
Allan Dafoe
My research broadly examines the causes of war and statistical methods. My work on statistical methods develops approaches to enable more transparent, credible causal inference. Transparency is crucial to the success of science: transparency is necessary to properly assess the evidential value of new results. Improving transparency is difficult because it requires…
Martin Aragoneses
Martin is interested in understanding the role information technologies can have on economic development and digital innovations can have on global poverty alleviation. He finished his undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley in 2014 and attended the BITSS Summer Institute that same year. Martin was inspired by the Institute’s closing talk “Data Science Meets Social…
Sean Grant
Sean Grant is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. His research focused on evaluating psychosocial interventions and advancing the rigor of intervention research methods. He principally researches interventions for substance use, though he is passionate about…
Joshua Kalla
Joshua Kalla is a political science Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he uses randomized controlled trials to study how voters and politicians make the decisions they do. Along with David Broockman and Peter Aronow, Joshua helped discover the statistical irregularities that led to a retraction of a prominent…
Scott Desposato
Scott Desposato is Associate Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on democratic institutions and representation in Latin America, methodology, and research ethics. He find the BITSS mission compelling and critical for the future of social science research.
Nancy Padian
Nancy Padian is an internationally recognized leader in the epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS and is an expert in related implementation science and health systems research. She is a senior technical advisor at the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator for the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and is a…
J. Scott Long
J. Scott Long is Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Statistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Long was awarded a 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Leader in Education category for his work authoring widely read textbooks on reproducibility, including the Workflow of Data Analysis Using Stata.
Philip B. Stark
Philip Stark is Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Stark was awarded a 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Leader in Education category for his work in creating and teaching courses on reproducible and collaborative research. He was an instigator of Berkeley Common Environment (http://bce.berkeley.edu/), a software environment for reproducible research and…
Sean Grant
Sean Grant is an Associate Behavioral and Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Grant was awarded a 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category led the methodological development of CONSORT-SPI, a set of standards for transparently reporting randomized trials in the social and psychological sciences. As an associate editor for Research on…
Dora Erbe-Matzke
Dora Erbe-Matzke is Assistant Professor of Psychological Methods and Statistics at the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Erbe-Matzke was awarded a 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category for her leadership as a co-developer of the Stats Store, a consulting service to help researchers increase the transparency of their work. She also co-lectures and leads…
Etienne LeBel
Etienne LeBel is an Experimental Social Psychologist at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. LeBel was awarded a 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category for his leadership founding Curate Science, a website that summarizes independent replication results meta-analytically to help gauge the replicability of findings in psychology and PsychDisclosure.org, a…
David Broockman
Dr. Broockman, Mr. Kalla, and Dr. Aronow were awarded a joint 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category for their leadership in a review of a study on attitudes on same sex marriage that uncovered inconsistencies and a lack of replicability that ultimately led to the study’s retraction by Science. David Broockman is Assistant Professor…
Joshua Kalla
Mr. Kalla, Dr. Broockman, and Dr. Aronow were awarded a joint 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category for their leadership in a review of a study on attitudes on same sex marriage that uncovered inconsistencies and a lack of replicability that ultimately led to the study’s retraction by Science. Joshua Kalla is a current…
Peter Aronow
Dr. Aronow, Dr. Broockman, and Mr. Kalla were awarded a joint 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category for their leadership in a review of a study on attitudes on same sex marriage that uncovered inconsistencies and a lack of replicability that ultimately led to the study’s retraction by Science. Peter Aronow is Assistant Professor…
Allan Dafoe
Allan Dafoe is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Dr. Dafoe was awarded a 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category for his portfolio of transparency efforts underway, including novel ways to visualize specification sensitivity tests, publications advocating transparency norms, and new efforts to create an online commons for post-publication dialogue.…
Eva Vivalt
Eva Vivalt is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Toronto. Dr. Vivalt was awarded a 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category based on her leadership founding AidGrade, a non-profit research institute that conducts open, real-time meta-analyses of economic development program evaluations. She is also the co-PI for the…
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Craig McIntosh
I am the director of the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab which has been working in close coordination with UCB and BITSS. We have already raised independent money and are paying for RA time to assist faculty in making data and replication code public, and are the primary coordinating agency for Quantitative/Research…
Cynthia Kroeger
Dr Kroeger is a postdoctoral fellow and interdisciplinary researcher in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy, based at the Charles Perkins Centre (CPC). She obtained her B.S. in Psychology and Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago and her Ph.D. in Kinesiology and Nutrition from the University of Illinois at Chicago.…
Dalson Figueiredo
I am Political Science assistant professor at Federal University of Pernambuco, scientific director of the Professional Master’s Program in Public Policy and current fellow of the Summer Program in Social Science (2015-2017). I was visiting scholar at Indiana University (Bloomington, 2014), William Mitchell College of Law (Saint Paul, 2011) and Wisconsin University…
Rachael Meager
Development economics (impact of aid interventions, microcredit, informal credit markets, competition under information asymmetries, reputational contracting), Econometrics (Bayesian statistics, evidence aggregation and inference across heterogeneous contexts, hierarchical models, regularisation and shrinkage, model selection)
Matt Woerman
Matt Woerman is a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research interests include policies and regulations affecting the U.S. electricity sector. He recently worked at Resources for the Future, an environmental economics think tank in Washington, DC, where he used…
Louis Preonas
Louis Preonas is a PhD student at University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and also a Graduate Student Researcher at the UC Energy Institute. His research interests include U.S. fossil fuel markets, firm behavior in response to environmental policy, and energy/environmental policies in the developing world.
Catherine Wolfram
Catherine Wolfram is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business and Faculty Director of the Energy Institute at Haas. She received an AB in Economics from Harvard University and a PhD in Economics from MIT. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an…
Solomon Hsiang
Solomon Hsiang combines data with mathematical models to understand how society and the environment influence one another. In particular, he focuses on how policy can encourage economic development while managing global climate change, how natural disasters impact societies and the effectiveness of policy responses, and how environmental conditions influence social instability and…
James Rising
James Rising is a researcher at the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. He studies and develops frameworks to model the feedback loops between environmental and human systems. He hopes to use new technologies to help communities act on those insights to mitigate climate change and promote social justice. James previously…
Rachel Glennerster
Rachel Glennerster is Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Her research includes randomized evaluations of community driven development, the adoption of new agricultural technologies, and improving the accountability of politicians in Sierra Leone; empowerment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh; the behavioral economics of complying with tuberculosis medication…
Kevin Esterling
Kevin Esterling is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside, and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division. His research focuses on deliberative democracy in American national politics, with an emphasis on the conditions that lead citizens to engage constructively in public discourse. He is the author of The Political…
Edward Miguel
Edward Miguel is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). His main research focus is African economic development, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; and interactions between health,…
Temina Madon
Temina Madon is Executive Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and provides leadership in scientific development, partnerships, and outreach. She has worked as science policy advisor for the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center, where she focused on enhancing research capacity in developing countries. She has also served as Science and…
Garret Christensen
Garret Christensen is research fellow with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), a program of the Center for Effective Global Action. He received his PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2011 and has since conducted research for theWASH Benefits public health randomized trial for Innovations for Poverty Action and Emory…
Jennifer Sturdy
Jennifer Sturdy splits her time between BITSS and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC. At MCC, she spearheads several transparency initiatives, including the establishment of the MCC Evaluation Catalog and the MCC Disclosure Review Board for releasing de-identified, public use micro-data. Sturdy also instituted several internal protocols for strengthening the design and implementation…
Shyan Kashani
Shyan supports the design and digital presence of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS). He is working to redesign BITSS’s online resources and build an upcoming online course on research transparency. Prior to joining CEGA, Shyan interned at Khan Academy, where he helped bring a free, world class…