Investigators

Research Scientist, Conservation & Science Dept., Lincoln Park Zoo

Research focus: population ecology, conservation biology, use of science and data in conservation management

Duties: She will compile ecological datasets and work with the team to develop species risk indicators and apply them to case studies

Email: jchecastaldo@lpzoo.org

Senior Staff Associate II, Data Library Manager, IRI, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Research focus: data analysis and information design bridging science and decision-making

Duties: He will oversee data curation, development of information products, and support data analyses

Email:

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science & Engineering

Director, Halicioglu Data Science Institute

Research Focus: Cyber-physical systems, Sensor networks.

Duties: Metadata organization, models, methods and tools for navigation of sensory data.

Email: rgupta@ucsd.edu

Associate Professor, Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University

Research focus: time series, networks, spatio-temporal modeling, anomaly detection

Duties: Research integration: oversee and coordinate overall project implementation and synthesis

Email: dm484@cornell.edu

Aerospace Engineering Scientist | Principal Data Scientist

Atmosphere Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA, LLC)

Research focus: Space weather, Heliophysics, Data science and machine learning

Duties: space weather impact on complex systems, transdisciplinary team science, data science

Email: rmcgranaghan@astraspace.net

Twitter: @AeroSciEngineer

Assistant Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky

Research focus: global change ecology, ecosystem modeling, agroecosystem

Duties: synthesize production risk related data, identify CRIs & conduct case study analysis in the agricultural domain.

Email: wei.ren@uky.edu

Associate Professor, Civil and Env Engr, PSU

Research focus: hydrologic modeling, water data mining, deep learning

Duties: hydrologic data, deep learning, data mining in the PRISM framework

Email: cshen@engr.psu.edu

Twitter: @ChaopengShen

Professor, Finance Department, Isenberg School of Management, UMASS Amherst

Research focus: financial institutions, systemic risk, financial crises

Duties: financial data expertise, systemic risk measures

Email: msherman@isenberg.umass.edu

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University

Research focus: energy systems, electrical grid modeling, data science for sustainability, energy justice

Duties: synthesize electrical grid data, identify energy-related CRIs, conduct case study to predict electrical grid outages

Email: Deborah.Sunter@tufts.edu

Professor, Department of Management Science, University of Miami

Research focus: high-dimensional statistical learning, quantile regression, optimal personalized decision recommendation and survival analysis.

Duties: developing statistical methods for high-dimensional data analysis, data-driven risk factors.

Email: lanwang@mbs.miami.edu