Meredith Lee is Chief Technical Advisor and Head of Strategic Partnerships at the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society – the first new college on campus in more than 50 years. As a founding member of the College leadership team, she has partnered broadly to launch initiatives for research, education, and public service, including the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health and a globally-recognized effort on open source technologies and infrastructure. Her current portfolio focuses on identifying and enabling emerging opportunities in data science, human-centered design, and AI.
During the Obama Administration, Dr. Lee led the White House Innovation for Disaster Response & Recovery Initiative and managed strategic research investments in data visualization, risk assessment, machine learning, and distributed computing. She later served as Founding Executive Director of the National Science Foundation's West Big Data Innovation Hub, spearheading public-private partnerships with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Department of Homeland Security, and Census Bureau. Meredith holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Canary Center at the Stanford School of Medicine. She is a two-term California Senate appointee to the Cradle-to-Career Governing Board, Vice Chair of the California Water Data Consortium Board, and a National Leadership Council member of the Society for Science. Her work has been featured by whitehouse.gov, ArsTechnica, Washington Post, Forbes, WIRED, Harvard Data Science Review, Bloomberg, and Nature.