Dr. Saida Elmi received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the National School of Mechanics and Aerotechnics, France, in 2017. She was a Research Fellow at the Korea University of Technology and Education in South Korea (2017–2018), where she conducted research on spatial data mining. She was a research fellow at the National University of Singapore, School of Computing (2018–2021), where she was involved in AI and machine learning. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of New Haven (2022–present) and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Yale University School of Medicine (2021–present) working on action recognition for mental disease detection. Her research interests include knowledge discovery, machine learning, and spatial data mining.
Dr. Colin N Brooks is a senior research scientist at the Michigan Tech Research Institute, where his research focuses on applications of high-resolution remote sensing to address ecological and transportation infrastructure problems. Since 2011, he has focused on how UAV-enabled sensing can help collect geospatial data easily and safely while adding value to decision-making processes. He has a Ph.D. in biological sciences from Michigan Technological University, an M.E.M from Duke University in resource ecology, and a B.S. from Lenoir-Rhyne College in pre-forestry. His research topics mainly include aquatic and landscape ecology, invasive species mapping, submerged aquatic vegetation monitoring, applications of unmanned aerial systems, assessment of transportation infrastructure conditions using remote sensing, automated road and bridge condition analysis, multispectral sensing, development and deployment of decision support systems, and land cover change mapping and monitoring.
