David Lebauer Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Az, Us

Tucson, Arizona, Us

[0% time] As former Director of Data Science and founder of the CCT Data Science team, in this role I continue to serve as an advisor to the team and collaborate with researchers at UA and beyond. In this role I also concluded my role as Principal Investigator on multiple projects after leaving my position.

Tucson, Arizona, Us

Founded and built a data science support team comprising 4-6 data scientists and software engineers to provide research support for the Division of Agriculture, Life Science, and Cooperative Extension at the University of Arizona. https://datascience.cct.arizona.eduFacilitated cross-disciplinary, collaborative research projects through data curation, statistical guidance, grant writing, workshops, and translation of research priorities across domains.Developed and launched a data science incubator program, leveraging institutional funds to provide researchers with technical support for data intensive projects with outcomes that include: producing preliminary results; upgrading scientific software; publishing papers, data, and code; creating data visualization dashboards and analysis pipelines.Developed long term vision and five year plan to support team with core USDA Hatch funding alongside over $2m in extramural funding to support modeling, computing, and informatics projects from ARPA-E, DARPA, USDA, and NSF.

Boston, Ma, Us

Technical lead for team that calibrated, validated, and wrote report following Climate Action Reserve Soil Enrichment Protocol to support generation of verified carbon credits. Wrote science requirements for automated model calibration and validation.Harmonized and migrated an extensive dataset of observed soil carbon, greenhouse gas fluxes, and yields used for model calibration and validation to a PostGIS database.Served as Indigo point of contact to external scientific and modeling activities.

Urbana, Illinois, Us

Champaign, Il, Us

2015-2019 Data and Computing Pipeline Lead, TERRA-REF- Awarded $1.7m from the DOE plus over $1m in computing and storage from NSF-funded computing resources to lead a team of three full time and ten part time programmers in the design and implementation of a pipeline of a cutting edge sensor based plant observation data stream.- Coordinated development of software and data products across six collaborating research groups representing diverse domains across genomics, physiology, breeding, remote sensing, computer vision, and robotics. Obtained and integrated feedback from end users, an advisory committee, and industry partners into data products and metadata standards.- Published the world’s largest public domain agricultural data set including over 1PB of sensor, trait, and genomics data.2012-2015 Scientific Manager, EBI Ecosystem Modeling Program- Managed scientific research program that predicted yield potential, yield stability, and environmental impacts of bioenergy feedstock production.- Responsible for writing proposals and administering a \$600k annual budget that supported research across four faculty, three postdocs, one research programmer, a project manager, multiple contractors, and dozens of part-time student employees.- Led development and application of simulation, statistical, and informatics software.

Champaign, Il, Us

Created, implemented (as PEcAn), and distributed a new software platform and database to support synthesis of ecophysiological and yield data and model-data synthesis.Developed protocol and database, and designed a UI to support efficient extraction of data from literature by teams of scientists and technicians.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Greensboro, Nc, Us

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Phd, Earth System Science

Ms, Agricultural Ecology, Biogeochemistry

Bs, Biology