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Cultural Analytics Workshop Week

Discussion with James Abello and Haoyang Zhang

Wednesday, March 18, 2026
9:30 am - 11:00 am
AI Futures Lab, Downtown Berkeley
James Abello and Haoyang Zhang

Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, the School of Information, and the Department of Scandinavian.

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Speakers

James Abello Monedero

Professor of Professional Practice
Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University

James Abello Monedero is an experimental computer scientist focused on algorithms and systems for graph mining, relational learning, visualization, and sense making of massive data sets. James received his Ph.D. in combinatorial algorithms from the University of California, San Diego, and M.S. in operating systems from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the recipient of a University of California  President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in computer science and has been recognized with teaching awards at Rutgers and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

James is the co-editor of External Memory Algorithms, Vol. 50 of the AMS-DIMACS series (with J. Vitter, 1999) , The Kluwer Handbook of Massive Data Sets (with P. Pardalos and M. Resende, 2002), and Discrete Methods in Epidemiology (with Graham Cormode, 2006). He is founding member of the newly created International Culture Analytics Network supported by the Danish Council on Independent Research. 

Haoyang Zhang

Haoyang Zhang is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the computer science department, Rutgers University, where he completed his master’s degree. He obtained his BS in communication engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu.

Last updated: February 27, 2026