๐ Staff
See the Office Hours page for the office hours schedule. If youโd like to meet with someone and canโt make it to their office hours, feel free to send them an email to schedule an appointment.
Coordinator and Methodology Instructor
Suraj Rampurehe/him
Academic Background and Expertise
๐งโ๐ซ Lecturer, Halฤฑcฤฑoฤlu Data Science Institute
๐ MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Personal Life
๐ Windsor, Ontario, Canada
๐ Credit card points and traveling, my dog back home, the Lakers, my academic journey, and this
๐ Menya Ultra, Tacos El Gordo, DJK, Charminar, Koon Thai, Bangkok Bay, SomiSomi
Teaching Assistants
Keng-Chi Changhe/himA15, B01, B09, B11, B14
Academic Background and Expertise
๐งโ๐ซ MS Student, Computer Science & Engineering + PhD student, Political Science (Computational Social Science)
๐ BA in Economics, National Taiwan University
๐ญ Computational social science, online behavior on social media, multimodal content moderation
๐ง Anything social science related (misinformation, social media, ethics, spatial, finance, health), R, social data collection, data visualization, causal inference, NLP, time series, spatial data, generative AI
Personal Life
๐ Taipei, Taiwan ๐น๐ผ
๐ Tea and boba, independent films, hiking in National Parks, AI and society
๐ฑ Din Tai Fung, Wushiland, Mien Trung, Tacos El Gordo, Wayfarer Bread & Pastry
Praveen Nairhe/himA10, A14, A16, A18, B10
Academic Background and Expertise
๐งโ๐ซ 2nd year MS student, Computer Science & Engineering
๐ BS in Data Science from UCSD ๐ฑ
๐ญ Machine learning fairness & social impact of algorithmic decisionmaking
๐ง Machine learning ethics & fairness, linguistics, social science, basic causal models
Personal Life
๐ Fremont, California
๐ Basically any sport, fun facts from Wikipedia, and the time in 1968 that UCSD had a football team for one season
๐ฏ I have very low standards, so I'll eat anything convenient. Haven't met a burrito I didn't like.
Gabriel Pilahe/himA04, A08, A17, B07, B08
Academic Background and Expertise
๐งโ๐ซ MS Student, Data Science
๐ BS in Civil Engineering (+6 years of industry experience in Data Science projects)
๐ญ MLops, Customer Predictive, Analytics
๐ง Consulting, Insurance, Credit Risk, Python, Machine Learning, Customer Analytics, AB Testing, data visualization, explainable AI, time series, graph ML.
Personal Life
๐ Cusco, Peru
๐ Dancing (salsa, bachata), Hiking and TV shows.
๐ Everything is good! Preference over meat, but can eat anything.
Samanvitha Sateeshashe/herA01, A02, A06, A09, B15, B16
Academic Background and Expertise
๐งโ๐ซ MS Student, Computer Science & Engineering
๐ BE in Computer Science and Engineering, JSS Science and Technology University
๐ญ intersection of technology and medicine, speech technology
๐ง Machine learning, Deep Learning, Python, Pattern Recognition, Text Preprocessing
Personal Life
๐ Mysuru, Karnataka, India
๐ Tea, Food, Novels
๐คค Food I cook, and love to explore new recipies and restaurants
Trevor Tuttlehe/himB05, B06, B12, B17, B18
Academic Background and Expertise
๐งโ๐ซ Master's Student, Halicioฤlu Data Science Institute
๐ BS in Data Science, UCSD
๐ญ Explanability, Machine Learning Theory, Systems
๐ง Explanability, Machine Learning Theory, Systems
Personal Life
๐ Hemet, California ๐น
๐ Restaurants, MMA, Food, Video Games, Greek Philosophy
๐ฎ arepas, carnitas, birria, burgers, ice cream, tacos, smoothies, sushi
Yanyi Wangshe/herA03, B02, B03, B13
Academic Background and Expertise
๐งโ๐ซ 5th year PhD student, Department of Mathematics
๐ MA in Statistics, Washington University in St. Louis
๐ญ High-dimensional time series, bootstrapping and subsampling
๐ง Statistics, Time Series Analysis, R
Personal Life
๐ Zhejiang, China
๐ baking, cooking, gardening, hiking
๐ dessert, fruits, seafood
Yuyao Wangshe/herA05, A07, A11, B04
Academic Background and Expertise
๐งโ๐ซ PhD Student, Department of Mathematics
๐ BA in Mathematics, Xi'an Jiaotong University
๐ญ Causal inference, survival analysis, semiparametric theory
๐ง Causal inference, survival analysis, R
Personal Life
๐ Luoyang, China ๐น๐ผ
๐ Gardening, guqin, baking, badminton, hiking, kayaking
๐ Pastries, noodles, dumplings, green tea latte, tofu, vegetables, fruits, fish