Brookie Guzder-Williams

Brookie Guzder-Williams is an environmental data science researcher leveraging satellite imagery and neural networks to better understand stresses on the earth’s natural resources. His research is focused on designing, training, analyzing and deploying novel neural network architectures for global scale computer vision tasks.

He comes to the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment at Berkeley from World Resources Institute where he served as Director of Data Science. Brookie’s background is theoretical physics. He was an International Postdoctoral Fellow for the National Science Foundation, has a Ph.D. in String Theory from the University of California Santa Barbara, and an undergraduate degree in both Physics and Mathematics from the University of Colorado.