Cathryn Carson Title Company University of California, Berkeley Bio Cathryn Carson helps lead a team of faculty, students, researchers, and staff who have been standing up Berkeley's new Data Science Education Program. She is part of the leadership of Berkeley's overall data science initiative, which is now building out to graduate education and research. She co-leads the Education and Training Working Group in the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), one of three university-based Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments. Her faculty appointment at Berkeley is in the Department of History. In a previous life she was in computational condensed matter physics.