Jennifer A. Doudna is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair and a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. Her groundbreaking development of CRISPR-Cas9 as a genome engineering technology, with collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, earned the two the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and forever changed the course of human and agricultural genomics research. This powerful technology enables scientists to change DNA — the code of life — with a precision only dreamed of just a few years ago. Labs worldwide have re-directed the...
Solomon Hsiang served on the inaugural steering committee at the Kavli Center while Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Hsiang is currently a Professor of Global Environmental Policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
He directs the Global Policy Laboratory at Stanford University (formerly at UC Berkeley), where his team is integrating econometrics, spatial data science, and machine learning to answer questions that are central to rationally...
Rebecca Wexler served as an inaugural steering committee member for the Kavli Center during her time as an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Professor Wexler is currently Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
Professor Wexler teaches, researches, and writes on issues concerning data, technology, and the criminal legal system. Her work focuses on fairness, transparency, and accountability for new data-driven criminal justice technologies. She was a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law...
