International Program Mentors

We’re excited you’re interested in joining ICSI as a DAAD-sponsored postdoctoral fellow. The first step is to find a mentor whose research interests align with yours. The senior researchers who mentor postdocs are below. If you are interested in working with a member of the UC Berkeley faculty who does not appear below, let us know. We can work to establish relationships with new advisors.

Once you have identified someone, go to the IFI call for proposal, which will guide you through the process of applying.

 

AI Safety

Sebastian Benthall

applies computational social science techniques to problems in software accountability, information technology policy, and AI ethics

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Ben Erichson

AI Safety research & deep learning and generative modeling, with a primary objective of developing robust architectures for vision, language, and scientific applications

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Michael Mahoney

foundations of data, large-scale machine learning, randomized matrix graph and optimization algorithms, scientific machine learning

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Big Data

Michael Mahoney

foundations of data, large-scale machine learning, randomized matrix graph and optimization algorithms, scientific machine learning

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Alfredo Metere

Molecular dynamics, Exascale computing and data analysis, condensed matter physics, HPC-oriented tuning and optimization, computational physics, machine learning for physics applications, information theory, chaos theory and non-equilibrium physics.

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Dmitriy Morozov

topological data analysis, computational topology and geometry, high-performance computing

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Oliver Rübel

data science research for enabling scientific data understanding, science engagement and collaboration with application science teams, modern methods and software for FAIR data, high-performance computing and AI for science

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John Wu

statistical methods for feature extraction, indexing techniques for searching, and tensor-based techniques for machine learning and scientific computing

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Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Physics

Chunlei Liu

developing physical tools (both imaging and modulation tools) and computational techniques to study the human brain

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Michael Mahoney

foundations of data, large-scale machine learning, randomized matrix graph and optimization algorithms, scientific machine learning

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Alfredo Metere

Molecular dynamics, Exascale computing and data analysis, condensed matter physics, HPC-oriented tuning and optimization, computational physics, machine learning for physics applications, information theory, chaos theory and non-equilibrium physics.

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Benjamin Nachman

developing statistical learning / deep learning methods for the physical sciences, including surrogate modeling, simulation-based inference, and anomaly detection

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Oliver Rübel

data science research for enabling scientific data understanding, science engagement and collaboration with application science teams, modern methods and software for FAIR data, high-performance computing and AI for science

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Computational Neuroscience and Human Cognition

Jack Gallant

brain network image analysis and computation

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Gallant Lab @ UC Berkeley
 

George Lakoff

cognitive social science, human conceptual systems

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Chunlei Liu

developing physical tools (both imaging and modulation tools) and computational techniques to study the human brain

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Oliver Rübel

data science research for enabling scientific data understanding, science engagement and collaboration with application science teams, modern methods and software for FAIR data, high-performance computing and AI for science

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Terry Regier

language and cognition, relation of language and thought

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Language & Cognition Lab
 

Computer Vision

Alexei (Alyosho) Efros

computer vision and visual generation, with a particular interest in using data-driven techniques to tackle problems where large quantities of unlabeled visual data are readily available

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Core Technology for TCS

Mike Luby

transport protocols to support interactive applications such as cloud gaming

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Cyber Human Systems

Serge Egelman

decision-making with regard to computer security and online privacy, human-computer interfaces

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Alisa Frik

usable privacy and security, AI, human-computer interaction, decision-making, contextual integrity, nudges, behavioral interventions

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Bjoern Hartmann

human-computer interaction, design and development tools, intelligent user interfaces

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Primal Wijesekera

mobile app analysis, privacy/security related measurement studies, vulnerability management, build systems to analyze new technology

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Cyber Security

Steve Dennis

 

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Deep Learning

Ben Erichson

AI Safety research & deep learning and generative modeling, with a primary objective of developing robust architectures for vision, language, and scientific applications

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Kurt Keutzer

efficient algorithms and computational techniques for machine and deep learning generally for either datacenter or edge, particularly focusing on optimization of large language models, ensembles of models, and RAG systems applied to natural language processing; machine translation for low resource languages, particularly Sanskrit, Pāli, classical Tibetan and classical Chinese

 
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Benjamin Nachman

developing statistical learning / deep learning methods for the physical sciences, including surrogate modeling, simulation-based inference, and anomaly detection

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Digital Twins

Steve Dennis

 

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Earth Sciences and AI Research

Nori Nakata

seismic imaging, microseismic monitoring, induced seismicity and subsurface utilization

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Rie Nakata

exploiting seismic wave phenomena for understanding, monitoring and predicting behaviors of Earth system; uses large-scale full seismic waveform simulation, imaging, inversion and monitoring of Earth's seismic properties in various scales ranging from rock samples to crustal scales

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Charuleka Varadharajan

applies machine learning and other data-driven methods for Earth science (climate and water) applications, data integration, data management and open science

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Healthcare AI Data Integration and Analytics

Maryam Vareth

developing open-source data-driven health technologies including interactive dashboards for real-time data analysis of multi-modal biomedical data advancing personalized care for chronic disease management through AI and community-driven collaboration

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Industrie 4.0 (Advanced Manufacturing)

Ken Goldberg

robotics and automation sciences

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Vadim Shapiro

Digital twin, computational design and manufacturing, physical modeling and simulation, interoperability and automation

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Security and Privacy

Sebastian Benthall

applies computational social science techniques to problems in software accountability, information technology policy, and AI ethics

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Serge Egelman

decision-making with regard to computer security and online privacy, human-computer interfaces

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Alisa Frik

usable privacy and security, AI, human-computer interaction, decision-making, contextual integrity, nudges, behavioral interventions

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David Evan Harris

AI, Misinformation, Elections, Social Media, UX, and Policy

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Nick Merrill

fragmentation, centralization, and geopolitical instability as it relates to Internet infrastructure

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Jessica Newman

AI risk management and impact assessment, social impact AI evaluation, and responsible AI governance and policy

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Nicholas Weaver

network security, notably worms, botnets, and other internet-scale attacks, and network measurement, hardware acceleration and software parallelization of network intrusion detection, defenses for DNS resolvers, and tools for detecting ISP-introduced manipulations of a user's network connection

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Primal Wijesekera

mobile app analysis, privacy/security related measurement studies, vulnerability management, build systems to analyze new technology

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Speech and Language Technologies

Collin Baker

computational linguistics, data structures, software design

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FrameNet Project
 

Kurt Keutzer

efficient algorithms and computational techniques for machine and deep learning generally for either datacenter or edge, particularly focusing on optimization of large language models, ensembles of models, and RAG systems applied to natural language processing; machine translation for low resource languages, particularly Sanskrit, Pāli, classical Tibetan and classical Chinese

 
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Dan Klein

unsupervised language acquisition, machine translation, efficient algorithms for NLP, information extraction, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, historical linguistics

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Berkeley NLP Group
 

George Lakoff

cognitive social science, human conceptual systems

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Terry Regier

language and cognition, relation of language and thought

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Language & Cognition Lab
 

Systems and Networking

Sylvia Ratnasamy

design and implementation of networked systems

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Scott Shenker

internet architecture, networked systems, economics and game theory

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Nicholas Weaver

network security, notably worms, botnets, and other internet-scale attacks, and network measurement, hardware acceleration and software parallelization of network intrusion detection, defenses for DNS resolvers, and tools for detecting ISP-introduced manipulations of a user's network connection

full bio
publications
Web Site
 

John Wu

statistical methods for feature extraction, indexing techniques for searching, and tensor-based techniques for machine learning and scientific computing

full bio
publications
Web Site