I'm a seismologist and earthquake engineer who spend 10 years at Berkeley getting my BS, MS and PhD degrees. I currently work for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. I started on the @home team years ago as a Berkeley student.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.