Affiliations
Associate Director, GeoCommons, University of Minnesota
Senior Research Scientist (R7), GEMS Informatics Center, University of Minnesota
Visiting Professor, Department of Tropical Plants and Soil Science, University of Hawai’i - Manoa
Global Food Ventures Faculty Scholar, MnDRIVE, University of Minnesota
Faculty, Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota
Faculty, Masters of Geographic Information Science Program, University of Minnesota
Research Focus
Geographic information science with a primary focus on real-time systems, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in the context of agricultural systems.
Research objectives are to advance the state-of-the-art in GIScience in order to:
Identify and test generalizable principles underlying the spatial and temporal dynamics of agent (e.g. human-human, human-environment, environment-plant, etc) interactions
Identify applied solutions for more efficiently and effectively integrating real-time data and spatial modeling into decision support systems for agricultural management and policy.
Background
2020 - 2022 Geocomputing Scientist (R5), GEMS Informatics Center, University of Minnesota
2019 - 2020 Visiting Research Scientist, Dept. Computer Science, University of Southern California
2018 - 2021 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota
2019 Post Doctoral Scientist, GEMS Agroinformatics Initiative, University of Minnesota
2014 - 2018 Ph.D. Geography, minor Computer Science, University of Minnesota
2011 - 2014 M.S. Applied Plant Sciences, University of Minnesota
2009 - 2011 High School Teacher, Echo Charter School
2005 - 2009 B.A. St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota