Dr. Dana Habeeb is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University's School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. As a PhD graduate from the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech specializing in Environmental Planning and Urban Climatology, her research explores strategies that make cities more sustainable and resilient in the face of climate change and other environmental challenges. She has conducted CDC, NSF, and non-profit supported research in climate change, public health, and urban food systems. Currently, she is working on a NSF Sustainable Research Network (SRN) grant investigating how distributed infrastructure can make cities more resilient in the future. Her current research in the Indiana University Department of Informatics focuses on making environmental data visible, accessible, and understandable to local communities with the goal of empowering residents to take ownership of their environment, their community, and their environmental health.

Samantha Hamlin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Environmental Resilience Institute. She is an environmental geographer with the Urban Green Infrastructure Inventory & Analysis research team, focused on: 1. Developing a spatial data platform of urban green infrastructure and other socioecological data in Indiana and 2. Analyzing the spatial resilience and equity of this urban green infrastructure. With graduate degrees in biology and business administration, and as a former NSF IGERT Fellow, she considers herself an interdisciplinarian, using ecology, geography, ecological economics, policy, and political ecology in much of her research.

Jeremy Park is a first-year PhD student in Health Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington advised by Dr. Dana Habeeb. He completed his BS in Computer Science at NC State University, where his research involved using computer vision to track dog tail wag in order to learn more about dog behavior. Ultimately, he wants to use data science methods for environmental justice purposes. In his free time, he loves to write and dance. He’s a hip-hop dancer and is on the African American Dance Company at IU.

Alexander L. Hayes is a Ph.D. student pursuing Health Informatics at Indiana University. His main area of research is in Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence (STARAI) and its applications to Health Informatics problems. His main project with the Healthy Cities Lab is a collaboration toward modeling building energy requirements as a response to changes in the local environment. Alexander spends his free time hacking on open source software, which he sees as a great resource for making machine learning (and science in general) more open, reproducible, and accessible to others.
Website: https://hayesall.com

A 2020 graduate with a Bachelors in Informatics, Zeb is continuing work with the Healthy Cities Lab as a research consultant. Lately, he has been doing full-stack development with our technical systems but also aids in data modeling, analytics, and technical strategy. Outside of the lab, he works full-time as a software developer in the technical education industry and is working on the longer-term goal of being an entrepreneur by working on a variety of side-projects within politics, business, academia, and finance.

Before graduate school, April studied Social Work and Spanish at the University of Georgia. April worked at a domestic violence shelter for 3 years, which showed her that she can have a job that aligns well with her passions and values. She just graduated with a MPA and MSES from the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She wants to use science and policy to meet the basic needs of our most vulnerable populations. Although she is concentrating in water management, most of her academic work uses GIS software to build communities resilient to climate change and rapid urban development. As part of the Healthy Cities Lab, she collaborates with other researchers and students to develop Local Climate Zone maps of Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana. She also works on a team of researchers to investigate the effect of natural and built surroundings on buildings’ heating and cooling demands.

Luke Fabina is working on a Local Climate Zone project for Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana. His roles currently are to analyze methods for classifying these two cities into local climate zones, review literature of past local climate zone research, and perform various GIS tasks. Furthermore, he is a graduate student at Indiana University studying Public Affairs with a plan to work in the urban planning field after graduation.

Erin Hardman is an undergraduate geography student with math and Spanish minors at Indiana University. Her main project with the Healthy Cities Lab is mapping and analyzing green infrastructure in downtown Bloomington. Her research interests include food and agriculture, political geography, urban geography, and environmental change. She spends her free time reading and rollerblading, but not at the same time.