Executive Committee
Executive Director
Sean McPherson
Sean is a deep learning research scientist with the Intel AI Lab where his research interests include knowledge distillation and the application of deep learning to non-standard domains. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from USC. Sean has been working with Delta Analytics since 2017.
Sean McPherson
Sean is a deep learning research scientist with the Intel AI Lab where his research interests include knowledge distillation and the application of deep learning to non-standard domains. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from USC. Sean has been working with Delta Analytics since 2017.
Leadership
Director of Fellowship Experience Raina Jain Raina was driven to learn from the integration of health administration education with practical work within the healthcare industry, so she earned a Master of Health Administration degree at Cornell University’s Sloan Program in Health Administration. In her first role after graduation, she needed to maintain efficiency and cost-effectiveness. So, it was necessary to use the least number of resources while delivering the highest quality of care focused on improving lives; this was achievable by deploying data. Raina has been working with Delta Analytics since December 2022. |
Director of Projects Malavika Kurup |
Advisors
Jonathan Wang
Jonathan graduated from UC Berkeley in 2014 and started his career in economic consulting. He now works at Uber in Data Science on the Public Policy team. Through his experiences working as a pro-bono management consultant through The Berkeley Group, he developed a passion for collaborating with social sector organizations to affect greater change. This inspired the founding of Delta Analytics which bridged Jonathan's interests in data and social impact. Outside of his work with Delta Analytics, he enjoys reading, music, and fences foil.
Cecilia Cheng
Cecilia co-founded and continues to advise on the operational aspects of Delta Analytics. She has a background in economic consulting and in law. In her spare time, she travels, sings, and passively takes credit for cooking from a mix. Cecilia is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Yale Law School.
Sara Hooker
Sara has previously worked as a research scientist at Google Brain. Her research is focused on training deep neural networks that fulfill multiple criteria -- interpretable, robust, compact. She spent her childhood in Africa, growing up in South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, and Lesotho. In 2014, she founded Delta Analytics, a non-profit dedicated to bringing technical capacity to help non-profits across the world use machine for good.
Takeo Hiraki
Takeo found his passion for working with nonprofits while performing pro-bono consulting as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. As a member of Berkeley's Net Impact consulting group, he experienced first-hand the wide disparity between expectations of how nonprofits are expected to use data, and the resources that are readily available to them.