He is the Principal Investigator and Director of the U.C. Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (http://ccrec.ucsc.edu), a University of California multi-campus research program initiative. He also serves as an Acting Associate Director of the Data and Democracy Initiative of the U.C. Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society (http://citris-uc.org; http://opinion.berkeley.edu/ddi).