HOLLY JACKSON


I’m a second-year PhD student in computer science at UC Berkeley advised by Ben Recht.

Previously, I received my Bachelor’s in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and my Master’s in human rights studies from Columbia University.

I work on on interdisciplinary applications of computer science, from astrophysics to history to politics. My research has been featured in over 100 media outlets and has been liked and shared tens of thousands of times on social of media.


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WORK IN COMPUTER SCIENCE








01 EVOLUTION GYM 

The first and largest benchmark for evolving soft robot morphology.


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2021





02 UNLOCKING HISTORY 

An algorithm to virtually unfold intricately-sealed historic letters.


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2016-21





03 COSMIC EVOLUTION

Building an evolutionary tree of stars in the Galaxy based on their chemical signatures.


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2019-21





04 TOPOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION 

Optimizing low-mass truss bridges with programmable stiffness properties for space travel.


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2015-17






WORK IN HUMANITIES








05 ANTI-PALESTINIAN MEDIA BIAS

Quantitative studies of anti-Palestinian bias in mainstream US news.


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2021-23





06 THE ON-CAMPUS ISRAEL LOBBY

How the Israeli government has spent millions of dollars to influence student groups on US college campuses.


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2023






MINI PROJECTS








07 LASER COMMUNICATIONS

Creating a mini internet with lasers.


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2022





08 REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING WITH A MICROCONTROLLER

A simple real-time image processing pipeline on a PSoC.


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2020





09 SPARSITY-BASED MIXED-MODE AUTOMATIC DIFFERENTIATION

Optimizing automatic differentation for nonlinear nodal analysis.


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2020




10 ARCHIVE

Science fair projects throughout the ages :)


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2013-15





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