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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

Debra is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for all things sensing and a goal to make the world a better place through sensors.

Debra has over 30 years of experience in the development and commercialization of environmental sensors and systems and has worked in…

Dr. Angel Farguell is a research scientist working at San José State University as part of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC). He holds a B.S. in Mathematics, an M.S. in Modeling for Science and Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the…

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,…

Jiarong Hong is a professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. He is also the Chief Technology Officer of Astrin Biosciences, Inc., a tech startup…

I havever thirty years of wildland firefighting experience with both the Forest Service and Prescott Fire Department's off-district wildland team.  Currently, I serve as the Wildfire Risk Manager for the City of Prescott.

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.

The future is defined by how we develop, deploy and utilize new technologies now. As co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Ember Flash Aerospace, Dr. Lee Kohlman is working to build a complete solution for wildfire response and impact mitigation. By bringing together…

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 Program’s prescribed fire platform, BurnPro3D. Leticia’s research background is in using…

I am a forest and fire ecologist with over a decade of experience quantifying wildfire behavior and effects across the Western U.S., driven by a deep interest in the processes that shape wildfire dynamics, fuel accumulation, and vegetation growth to inform actionable…