I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. My research spans a variety of disciplines including Geographical Information Systems, Environmental Perception, Geovisualization, Landscape Planning, Human-Computer Interaction and Forestry.

My dissertation was completed in the Faculty of Forestry at UBC. My research focused on addressing gaps in conventional planning methods by designing quantitative spatial tools and methods to help planners balance social, economic and ecological goals. My current research is interdisciplinary, with application in Computational Sustainability. I am using information visualization techniques coupled with artificial intelligence and optimization methods to build a system that helps municipalities in the selection of wastewater management alternatives. My role is to center the efforts on sustainability and to bring together various researchers from different disciplines includingenvironmental sustainability, wastewater engineering, computer science, and social sciences.

I am also engaged with and have been involved in many other research projects. Most of my research has been in association with the Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning. I am also a collaborator with the CHANS Laboratory and have conducted research with the Landscape Ecology Lab of the Centre for Applied Conservation Research, all at UBC. During my Ph.D. I had the pleasure of conducting research in the department of Forest Engineering at the Federal University of Vicosa and as well in Geosciences at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte), Brazil. For details of my current and past research, see the links under Projects.