Current Position
One-U Responsible AI Postdoctoral Fellow ยท University of Utah
Research Interests
Broadly speaking, my research focuses on the ecology of human behavior, but here are the specific questions that really animate me these days:
- Climate adaptation and migration: how do people distribute themselves across space, and how is that influenced over the long term by climate trends?
- The economics of early urbanism: how did we get from small, dispersed groups of mobile hunter-gatherers to large concentrations of sedentary city dwellers?
- Demographic interpolation: how do we estimate population size without a census?
- Land-use dynamics and biodiversity: how does history shape nature's response to urbanization?
In my spare time, I also contribute to several FOSS projects in the R community, especially extendr.