Marti Hearst is a Professor in the School of Information and EECS at UC Berkeley. She develops algorithms and tools that combine natural language processing and user interface design to support research efforts in the digital humanities. She is Vice President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and is a member of the CHI Academy and a Fellow of the ACM.
David Bamman is an assistant professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where he applies natural language processing and machine learning to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences. His research involves adding linguistic structure (e.g., syntax, semantics, coreference) to statistical models of text. Before Berkeley, Bamman received his PhD at Carnegie Mellon (School of Computer Science, Language Technologies Institute) and was a senior researcher at the Perseus Project of Tufts University.
AnnaLee Saxenian is Dean and Professor in the School of Information and professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.