Current Research
Computing Along the Two Row (Dissertation Topic)
- Utilizing the Tekani Teioháte (Two Row Wampum) as a mechanism to evaluate both oppressive and liberating Indigenous computational power relations
Sovereign Servers (Oct. 2024 – Present)
- Prototyping low-cost data servers that support the technological infrastructural needs of the Longhouse People
- Operationalizing clan-based iterative design methods to for community co-creation and design
Machine Learning Tools for Land Defenders and Frontline Activists (July 2024 – Present)
- Developing technologies for industrial counter-surveillance and accountability
Reclaiming Akwesasne’s Datastory (Oct. 2023 – Present)
- Developing a comprehensive information repository that stories our community’s socio-political and environmental data history
- Engaging in anti-colonial methodologies for information acquisition, translation and dissemination
- Supported by Repair & Redress funded by Innovation for Impact Fund, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
Past Research
Cornell University Indigenous Dispossession Project: Archiving the Land Grab (Sept. 2023-May 2024)
- Expose the depth and significance of Cornell’s profit-taking from the proceeds of Indigenous dispossession undertaken by the federal government (Morrill Act of 1862)
- Data visualization techniques to present the history of Cornell University’s relationship and raise metrics for contemporary redress
- Supported by American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program
Repertoires of Contention for Community Resistance to Bitcoin Mining in New York (March 2022 – Nov. 2023)
- Applying a diverse set of computational techniques to engage with and address community concerns surrounding externalized impacts of the Greenidge Bitcoin Mining power plant on Seneca Lake in New York state
- Mapping community sentiment to permit renewal (DEC_Counts)
- Community science techniques to map thermal water plumes (GANDER, SatHelper)
- Power mapping corporate and government stakeholders surrounding a bitcoin mining controversy
- Supported by Repair & Redress funded by Innovation for Impact Fund, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
Data Driven Building Energy Management (Jan 2021 – Apr 2021)
- Building energy data acquisition systems
- Running simulations to model building energy consumption patterns
- Supported by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Semantic Segmentation of Satellite Images: Analyzing Fire Scars in the Western Australian Desert (May 2020 – Dec 2020)
- Streamline and automate fire scar identification using computer vision techniques on Landsat8 satellite imagery
- Supported by Santa Fe Institute
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