Kelsey Doerksen

Kelsey Doerksen is a postdoctoral researcher in the Climate Risk Lab, working on predictions of climate impacts on global food security using AI. She holds a joint postdoctoral appointment at Arizona State University in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, working on geospatial AI applications. Kelsey has a PhD in AI from the University of Oxford, a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, and a Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering: Space Systems Design from Carleton University. She is a research affiliate with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has worked on AI for climate and humanitarian applications with UNICEF, the European Space Agency, and NASA, and was previously a satellite operator at Planet.