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Ms. Emily Gaston (ESRM, 2014) is a broadly-trained environmental scientist and spatial analyst with an emphasis in Geographic Information Sciences (GIS), remote sensing, and coastal geomorphology. She received her B.S. in Environmental Science and Resource Management with a minor in Chemistry at CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) in 2014, and received her M.S. in Geographic Information Sciences from CSU Long Beach in 2021.
Rachel Olney is the founder and C.E.O. of an innovative data analytics company, Geosite, which collects, processes, and analyzes large amounts of geospatial data and then presents it on an intuitive data platform that helps the clients better access the information and make informed decisions. Rachel received her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, with an emphasis on Product Design, and her Master’s in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. Her academic research addresses innovation in bureaucratic and hierarchical organizations as well as mechanical and systems engineering and design.
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Courtney Sembler is an experienced professional with an entrepreneurial mindset, and progressive experience in powering digital assets, designing innovative online learning experiences and developing customer-centric solutions. Currently, she is operating as the Director for the HubSpot Academy team focused on developing educational content for a global audience. She loves helping people and organizations execute and is passionate about education and the impact it can have on the world. With a continued focus in her roles on our environmental impact and protecting the last wild places in this world.
Eddie Schlafly, Ph.D.
Dr. Eddie Schlafly earned his bachelor’s in Physics at Stanford University and Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard University. He currently works as an Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), which runs the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes. He analyzes data from telescopes and develops future space astronomy missions.
“I've been interested in science writ large since elementary school, but I became interested in plotting after starting to do research. A good plot is often what you need to solve your research problem, be it to convince your colleagues of your result, to identify a problem in your experiment, or to find a bug in your code.”
Kristin Jordan is a data scientist and sociology faculty here at CSUCI. She uses Tableau daily in her work as a data scientist in CSUCI's Institutional Research Office. Tableau is one of the most used data tools at CSUCI to help understand, support, and improve student experiences and success. Feel free to contact her with questions at kristin.jordan@csuci.edu.
My name is Miguel Delgado Helleseter, but I often go by MDH. I suppose I’ve been doing data science for quite a bit longer than I have known it to be called data science. Data visualizations are an important tool for data science. As an economist, I've found that much of my work is about storytelling, and data visualizations are a great tool for telling stories. I am currently the Chair of the Business and Economics programs at the Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics. In addition, I run a research institute within the school, the Institute for Global Economic Research.
Scott Feister specializes in scientific computing: using computers to solve scientific challenges of the 21st century. This specialty is at the intersection of computer science, mathematics, and the natural sciences. In his research, Scott creates data systems and electronic devices for scientific laboratories, performs supercomputer simulations of physical processes, and analyzes large experimental datasets. His conception of teaching is to motivate students to learn, give them access to knowledge, and work with them to apply their knowledge in real-world contexts.
Dr. Sohui Lee is Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Writing & Multiliteracy Center. She has taught, researched, and published on the topic of multimodal communication for over a decade. Her courses include "Information Design" at Stanford University and has a forthcoming textbook called Design for Composition: Creative Projects for Inspired Visual and Multimodal Arguments (Parlor Press).
Currently, she is the Chair of CSUCI's Plot-a-Thon Planning Committee.
