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Ryo Chijiiwa

Founder at Ponderosa.ai, Inc.

Ryo Chijiiwa is the founder of Ponderosa.ai, a startup focused on developing AI-enabled drones to empower fire practitioners. Prior to starting Ponderosa.ai, Ryo spent nearly 20 years in the technology industry as an engineer and engineering leader, at larger companies…

AI/ML Big Data Cloud Technologies UAS

Kathleen Clough

PhD Research Assistant at Desert Research Institute (Reno, NV)

Co-production with Practitioners Burn Planning

Tim Cockerill

Program Director at Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), University of Texas at Austin

Tim Cockerill is a Program Director at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas. Tim currently serves as the DesignSafe Deputy Project Director, providing a web-based platform supporting natural hazards research and is also the Systems…

High Performance Computing

Jordan Combs

Senior Product Manager at Spatial Informatics Group (Austin, TX)

Decision Support Tools GIS Science Communication Software Development User Experience Use-inspired Research System Administration Community Engagement

Caleb Cramer

Graduate Student at University of Washington

Cloud Technologies Business Development burnbot AI/ML

Daniel Crawl

at UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)

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…

Big Data Decision Support Tools GIS User Experience Workflows User Interface Databases

Zach Crennen

Post Bachelor's Research Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM)

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

AI/ML Fire modeling

Maytal Dahan

at Texas Advanced Computing Center

Cyberinfrastructure Cloud Technologies AI/ML Big Data Community Engagement Science Gateways

Alex Dehgan

CEO at Conservation X Labs

Dr. Dehgan is the CEO and co-founder of Conservation X Labs, an innovation and technology startup focused ending the Sixth Mass Extinction.  Conservation X Labs both builds new technologies for addressing…

Biodiversity AI/ML Sustainable Development Strategy Emerging Wildfire Technology

Debra Deininger

CRO at N5 Sensors Inc.

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…

Sensor Networks Emerging Wildfire Technology Wildfire Technology Innovation

Katharyn Duffy

Senior Scientist at Vibrant Planet, Northern Arizona University

Dr. Katharyn Duffy is a Senior Scientist at Vibrant Planet and an Adjunct Faculty member in EcoInformatics at Northern Arizona University. Her work integrates empirical observations, remote sensing, and ecological data science to quantify the realized effects of forest…

Benefit evaluation Fire Ecology Treatment Planning

Amin Eshaghi

Researcher at Gorgan university of agricultural sciences and natural resources

Fire modeling Fire Management Fire Behavior Modeling

Angel Farguell

Research Scientist at Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (SJSU)

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…

Wildfire Modeling AI/ML Remote Sensing

Melissa Floca

Chief Innovation Officer at UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)

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,…

Use-inspired Research Fire Science Community Engagement Decision Support Tools Co-production with Practitioners

Rocio Frej Vitalle

at SkyTL

AI/ML Big Data Cloud Technologies

Don Hannemann

Data Technology Lead at Department of the Interior

Data Standards

Rebecca Harned

at UL Research Institutes - Fire Safety

Wildfire Modeling Fire modeling

Brooke Hemming

Research Physical Scientist at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Smoke Composition and Photochemistry Smoke Toxicity

Jiarong Hong

Professor at University of Minnesota

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…

AI/ML Fluid dynamics Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Particle diagnostics Flow diagnostics Computer Vision Field deployment

Dawn Hutchinson

at UC San Diego

Initial Attack