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I am a researcher in data science for sustainability, working at the intersection of society, politics, economy, and the environment. My work integrates statistics, artificial intelligence, and complex systems approaches to generate robust, data-driven evidence that supports decision-making in complex socio-environmental contexts.
My research focuses on understanding and modeling socio-ecological systems, with the goal of improving sustainability outcomes through interdisciplinary analysis and innovative analytical tools.
My research interests are organized around four main areas:
🌱 Socio-ecological systems dynamics
I study the interactions between human societies and ecosystems, with particular attention to the social, economic, and political processes that shape these dynamics.
💚 Nature’s values
I explore the diverse ways in which people value nature and work on integrating these perspectives into decision-making processes and public policy design.
🦋 Biodiversity management and conservation
I apply computer vision, statistical modeling, and spatial analysis to species classification and monitoring, generating evidence to support biodiversity management and conservation strategies.
🏛️ Governance and public policy
I analyze policy integration and coherence using quantitative and data-driven methods, aiming to improve policy design, implementation, and decision-making processes.
Overall, my research seeks to integrate interdisciplinary approaches to strengthen sustainability, generating knowledge and innovative tools based on data science and artificial intelligence that support both public policy development and the management and conservation of socio-ecological systems.
Science, technology, and innovation policy; development policy; higher education policy; international research collaborations and networks; social network analysis; bibliometric analysis
Kenneth D. Aiello is a postdoctoral research scholar with the Global BioSocial Complexity Initiative at ASU. Kenneth’s research contributes to cross disciplinary conversations on how historical developments in biological, social, and cultural knowledge systems are governed by processes that transform the structure, dynamics, and function of complex systems. Applying computational historical analysis and epistemology to question what scientific knowledge is and how we can analyze changes in knowledge, he uses text analysis, social network analysis, and machine learning to measure similarities and differences between the knowledge claims of individual agents and groups. His work builds on how to assess contested knowledge claims and measure the evolution of knowledge across complex systems and multiple dimensions of scale. This approach also engages in dynamic new debates about global and local structures of knowledge shaped by technological innovation within microbiology related to public policy, shrinking resources given to biomedical ideas as opposed to “translation”, and the ethics of scientific discovery. Using interdisciplinary methods for understanding historical content and context rich narratives contributes to understanding new domains and major transitions in science and provides a richer understanding of how knowledge emerges.
I am a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Previously, I worked for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as an internal consultant on statistical computing. I have also been a consultant to numerous government agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Executive Office of the President, and the United States Department of Homeland Security. I am a passionate educator, teaching mathematics and statistics at the University of Maryland University College since 2010 and have taught public management at Central Michigan University, Penn State, and the University of Baltimore.
I am fortunate to play in everyone else’s backyard. My most recent published scholarship has modeled the population of Earth-orbiting satellites, analyzed the risks of flood insurance, predicted disruptive events, and sought to understand small business cybersecurity. I have written two books on my work and am currently co-editing two more.
In my spare time, I serve Howard County, Maryland, as a member of the Board of Appeals and the Watershed Stewards Academy Advisory Committee of the University of Maryland Extension. Prior volunteer experience includes providing economic advice to the Columbia Association, establishing an alumni association for the College Park Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, and serving on numerous public and private volunteer advisory boards.
Inyoung Hwang is an Associate Research Fellow at Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP), South Korea. He was a visiting scholar in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. He received a B.Sc. in Vocational Education and Workforce Development, an M.P.P. in Public Policy, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Seoul National University.
Science & Technology Policy, Collaborative Innovation, Technological Diffusion and Convergence, Agent-Based Modelling, and Social Simulation.
My dissertation research at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy focuses on food safety and consumer choices, using agent-based models as a novel method for investigating this policy space.