People

Principal Investigator
Professor Tirtha Banerjee
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UCI
tirthab@uci.edu
Website
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor Kelley Barsanti
Department of _______
, UCR
Section: Air Quality/Modelling
kbarsanti@engr.ucr.edu
Website

Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Rod Linn
Department of _______
, LANL
Section: Air Quality/Modelling
rrl@lanl.gov
Website
Co-Principal Investigator
Prof. Rob York
Assistant Extension Specialist and Adjunct Associate Professor of Forestry, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
ryork@berkeley.edu
Website
Co-Investigator
Professor Sharad Mehrotra
Department of Computer Science, UCI
Section: IT
sharad@ics.uci.edu
Website
Co-Investigator
Professor William Porter
Department of Environmental Sciences, UCR
Section: Air Quality/Modelling
william.porter@ucr.edu
Website

Co-Investigator
Lenya N. Quinn-Davidson
Area Fire Advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension Director, Northern California Prescribed Fire Council
Section: Ecology
lquinndavidson@ucanr.edu
Website

Co-Investigator
Professor Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury
Bourns Family Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside
Section: IT
amitrc@ece.ucr.edu
Website
Co-Investigator
Professor Nalini Venkatasubramanian
Department of Computer Science, UCI
Section: IT
nalini@ics.uci.edu
Website

Project Coordinator & Postdoctoral Scholar
Dr. Janine Baijnath-Rodino
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UCI
jbaijnat@uci.edu
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PhD Student
Ajinkya Desai
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UCI
ajinkyad@uci.edu
Website

PhD Student
Tung-Chun Chang
Department of Computer Science, UCI
tungchuc@uci.edu
Website
PhD Student
Anirudh Rao
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UCI
anirudh.rao@uci.edu

Website

PhD Student
Mukesh Kumar
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UCI
mukeshk@uci.edu
Website
PhD Student
Shu Li
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UCI
shul15@uci.edu
Website
PhD Student
Fangqi Liu
Department of Computer Science, UCI
fangqil2@uci.edu
Website
Masters Student
Kane Russell
Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
UC Berkeley
kane.russell@berkeley.edu

PhD Student
Sayak Nag
Department of Computer Science, UCI
snag005@ucr.edu
Website
Outreach Partner
Rachelle Hedges, M.F
Rausser College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley
rachelle.hedges@berkeley.edu
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The SPARx project is funded by the UC Multicampus-National Lab Collaborative Research And Training 2020 Awards under the project: Transforming Prescribed Fire Practices for California led by Prof. Tirtha Banerjee, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine. It involves collaboration among UC Irvine (lead institute), UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, UC ANR, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.