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Rawaf al Rawaf is a lead wildfire modeler for the FIRIS Fusion Center and a researcher for the WIFIRE Lab, focusing on the analysis and improvement of the Firemap interface as well as other GIS-related research projects. He has a background in architecture, economics,…

İlkay is the Chief Data Science Officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Founding Director of the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab. Since joining SDSC in 2001, she has been a principal investigator and a technical leader in a wide range of cross-…

Chris is a Fellow at the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab (SCIL) and the ProWESS Center at UC San Diego. Previously, he served California as a Governor Appointee overseeing nearly all aspects of CAL FIRE’s Fire Protection, Resource Management, Support, and…

John J. Battles is a Professor of Forest Ecology and the Rudy Grah Endowed Chair of Forestry and Sustainability at UC Berkeley. He is a field scientist engaged in long-term research of temperate forest ecosystems. His goal is to understand how and why forests change.…

Deputy Fire Chief, Marin County Fire Department – Retired
Executive Officer, Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority

Chief Brown started his career as a volunteer firefighter in 1986 in Sonoma County. He was hired by the Marin County…

Daniel is the Chief Technology Officer of the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab. His current projects involve designing and building geospatial systems and visualizations for BurnPro3D and the Fire Integrated Real-Time Intelligence System (FIRIS) Fusion Center. Prior…

I am a post bachelor’s student with a CS background looking to apply ML to wildland fire. I work on tools to accelerate quic-fire, improve fuel modeling, understand post fire hydrologic effects, and integrate ML into wildland fire

Melissa Floca is the Chief Innovation Officer at the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab (SCIL), based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) within UC San Diego’s School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences. In this role, she brings together policymakers,…

Kate is a Cyberinfrastructure Developer at SDSC. Since joining SDSC in 2001, her work has included technical project architecture, system administration, and research applications programming for a variety of projects.

Jenny is a User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) Developer. She works on user research and testing, product design, and front-end development across nearly every project at the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab.

Leticia is a Computational Data Scientist. Her research focuses on developing spatially and temporally explicit fuels for more detailed prescribed fire modeling within the WIFIRE Lab’s prescribed fire platform, BurnPro3D. Leticia’s research background is in using…

Anthony is a former wildland firefighter turned fire science researcher and fuel modeler. He currently works for the New Mexico Consortium as a research scientist where he primarily works on the FastFuels 3D fuel modeling platform. When not thinking about fire, he enjoys…

I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University. I teach geospatial science courses for both undergraduate and graduate students. I am also the director of West Virginia View, a consortium of public, private,…

Mai H. Nguyen is the Associate Director for AI of the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab and the Lead for Data Analytics at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) of UC San Diego (UCSD). Her research centers on the use of artificial Intelligence to address complex…