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Jeannie Stamberger, Associate Director - Strategic Projects and Funding, Disaster Management InitiativeOverview: Jeannie A. Stamberger, Ph.D. is the Associate Director of Strategic Programs and Funding of the CMUSV Disaster Management Initiative, and an CMUSV Adjunct Faculty. Jeannie received her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 2006, and her undergraduate degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, during which she also Oxford University, England, and University of Illinois (studying electrical engineering). During her doctorate, she worked on the BioACT project with the Stanford Computer Science Department "InfoLab" group where she advised human-computer-interaction research on field biology data collection, curation and dissemination, resulting in award-winning field technology, such as the EcoPod interface (CHI - Vannevar Bush IEEE/ACM 2006 Best Student Paper Award). She has also been a Senior Biologist and Biostatistician at URS Corporation (Oakland, CA), working on technical risk assessments for California Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta levees, which affect the water supply for 25 million people and the 7th largest economy in the world. She brings a unique perspective to disaster management, by integrating her experience developing technology for extreme environments and analytical skills (modeling and custom statistical analyses for patchy data), that results in award winning designs such as "Tweak the Tweet" (a Twitter hashtag syntax for disaster reporting; Random Hacks of Kindness, November 2009). She has been the CrisisCamp lead for Silicon Valley since early 2010. Within the DMI her research interests include social media, user-centered design, technology to reduce violence against women, and the 'human sensor'. |