Affiliations

• Associate Director, GeoCommons, University of Minnesota

• Senior Research Scientist (R7), GEMS Informatics Center, University of Minnesota

• 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:

1. Identify and test generalizable principles underlying the spatial and temporal dynamics of agent (e.g. human-human, human-environment, environment-plant, etc) interactions and

2. 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