Alex Hanna
Director Of Research at University of California, Berkeley
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Hanna is a social scientist and research leader with 11 years of experience exploring how computational technologies reshape power, race, and data practices. As Director of Research at DAIR and a lecturer at UC Berkeley, Alex bridges academic rigor and applied ethical AI work, informed by prior roles at Google where they focused on ML fairness and sociotechnical analyses of training data. They hold a PhD in Sociology and a dual BS/BA in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Sociology, enabling rare fluency across technical and social research methods. Based in Oakland, Alex blends scholarly publication, teaching, and program-building to influence both policy and model development, and their GitHub persona—“40% Luck (with a 0.5% Humor Impurity)”—hints at a pragmatic, self-aware approach to complex problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Castle High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Sociology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Purdue University
English, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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919reached
1answer
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Github Skills (52)
sass-framework10
overlay10
hearthstone10
prototyping10
chatroom9
discord9
irc-bot9
javascript9
responsive9
css9
discord-bot9
prototypes9
wpf9
frontend9
web-development9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chatrealm/dctvbot
Aug 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:189 pushes, 6 branches, 7 tags in 1 year 4 months
tinnvec/tinntime
Nov 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:13 releases, 80 commits, 53 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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