Who We Are

Our People

Our vibrant community of bold thinkers and boundary spanners is what makes all of ICSI’s accomplishments possible. Meet the people who envision, oversee, run, and support our ambitious research programs and make ICSI a welcoming place for visitors. 

Research Faculty

Ben Erichson

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Ben Erichson, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist and Group Lead for Deep Learning at ICSI and Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Alisa Frik

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Alisa Frik, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and Co-founder of PrivacyRescue, a user experience research consulting collective.

Mike Luby

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Mike Luby, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at ICSI and Co-founder and CEO of BitRipple.

Michael Mahoney

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Michael W. Mahoney, PhD, is Vice President, Principal Scientist, and Group Lead for the AI and Big Data group at ICSI.

Dmitriy Morozov

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Dmitriy Morozov, PhD, is a Research Affiliate and Research Mentor at ICSI and Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Nori Nakata

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Nori Nakata, PhD, is a Research Affiliate and Research Mentor at ICSI, Principal Research Scientist at MIT, and Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Oliver Rübel

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Oliver Rübel, PhD, is a Research Affiliate and Research Mentor at ICSI and Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Paul Schmitt

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Paul Schmitt, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at Cal Poly, and Co-Founder and CEO at INVISV.

Malcolm Slaney

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Malcolm Slaney, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI, Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington.

Charuleka Varadharajan

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Charuleka Varadharajan, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI, Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Research Affiliate at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Nick Weaver

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Nicholas Weaver, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at ICSI and CEO of Skerry Technologies.

John Wu

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Kesheng (John) Wu, PhD, is a Research Affiliate and Research Mentor at ICSI and Senior Computer Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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