The people behind CalCompute

Chris Given

Deputy Secretary, Technology and Innovation, California Government Operations Agency

California Government Operations Agency

Deputy Secretary for Technology and Innovation at GovOps; leads the state's implementation planning for CalCompute

Monique Limón

Senate President pro Tempore, California State Senate

California State Senate

Senate President pro Tempore and Chair of the Senate Rules Committee; presides over the chamber that passed SB 53, the legislation establishing the CalCompute consortium

Nick Maduros

Secretary, California Government Operations Agency

CA GovOps

Leads state AI strategy

Alexa Jones

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley Coalition Rep.

Allison Kim

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Irvine

UC Irvine Coalition Rep.

Andrew W. Reddie

Professor

Goldman School of Public Policy

UC Berkeley

Deputy Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center

Anson Fung

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Davis

UC Davis Coalition Rep.

Arlen Kumar

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Berkeley

AI Researcher

Dr. Brian Justie

Senior Research Analyst

UCLA Labor Center

UCLA

Political economy of AI

Daniel Romo

CEO, AP0110

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Riverside

UC Riverside Coalition Rep.

Deeksha Vaidyanathan

Computer Science & Data Science Student

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Berkeley

AI Policy & Safety Researcher

Ellie Kuang

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Santa Barbara

UC Santa Barbara Coalition Rep.

Homa Hosseinmardi

Researcher & Assistant Professor at UCLA

OASIS Lab

UCLA

Computational Social Scientist

Jasel Steinmetz

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley Coalition Rep.

Kevin Michael Esterling

Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Chair, Department of Political Science

RAISE @ UCR

UC Riverside

Computational democracy UC; founding director, TeCD-Lab

Lawrence Wagner

Black in AI Safety & Ethics

UC Berkeley

Executive Director/Co-founder

Leilani H. Gilpin

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz

AI Safety Researcher & Developer

Pranav Anand

Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz

Linguist and NLP UC

Stephanie Lieggi

Executive Director, CROSS & OSPO, UC Santa Cruz

Jack Baskin School of Engineering

UC Santa Cruz

Open source infrastructure leader; technology governance and reproducibility UC

Steven Veld

AI Policy & Computer Science

UC CalCompute Coalition

UCLA

UCLA Coalition Rep.

Troy Tian

CompSci + AAS + Ethnomusicology

UC CalCompute Coalition

UCLA

UCLA Coalition Rep.

Yan Zhu

UC CalCompute Coalition

UC Berkeley

AI governance and policy expert

Zac Zimmer

Associate Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz

Humanistic researcher on AI training data, equitable AI infrastructure and responsible AI curriculum development

James DeBacco

Veterans Treatment Court Liaison

County of Los Angeles

University of Southern California

Doctoral Social Work Candidate

Jose Negrete

United Nations

Geneva Graduate Institute

Beyond Lab

Kat Phan

California Research and Policy Manager, Economic Security Project

Economic Security Project

Leads California policy research on economic security, public AI infrastructure and antimonopoly advocacy — including co-sponsorship of SB 53, the legislation establishing CalCompute

Miroslav Polzar

Technologist & Researcher

GloCha Global Challenges Action Network

Climate Chain Coalition

Ruby Guillen

Co-Chair, UNA-USA Human Rights Affinity Group; Governing Councilor, APHA-HIIT; Technology & Data Science Analyst, CA Critical Incidents Citizen Review Panel

United Nations Association of the USA | American Public Health Association | Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (ICAN)

Child welfare technologist; United Nations civil society leader; ethical AI and public-interest technology advocate