Joanna Chan Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Va, Us

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Interagency collaborations on data science projects: Provide expert advice on data innovations; formulate agencies’ data challenges into problem statements; participate in merit review of project proposals; ensure the delivery of impactful outcomes by leveraging data science and technology• Outreach: Organized federal-wide Data Innovation event; represent the Bureau at inter-agency meetings, Department-wide talk, and invited discussions and lectures related to emerging technologies; conduct outreach with private sector, non-profit, and academia partners

Directorate For Computer And Information Science & Engineering (Cise)

• Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs and Spokes program (BD Hubs & Spokes): Acted as the de facto program manager to liaise with over 150 stakeholders across 50 institutions on a US$10 million per annum funding program to build a national network that governs the use of Big Data and explores the potentials of Big Data findings.• Data Science Corps: Led the conceptualization and formalization of the program to strengthen the data capacity of inner cities, rural communities, and developing countries through knowledge exchange.

Bureau Of International Organization Affairs

• Multilateral Moneyball: Led a team on this in-house data analytics platform to analyze UN member states’ positions on multilateral negotiations.• President Obama’s Leaders' Summit on Refugees (September 2016): Performed data analyses to identify countries that the President might invite to achieve the Summit’s objectives.• Performed outreach to collaborate with UN OICT on a joint public challenge.

Institute Of Behavioral Science, Center For The Governance Of Natural Resources

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Environmental Studies

Dissertation Title: Managing risk through forest governance: The use of collective action and property rights by Bolivian indigenous.

Mba (Beta Gama Sigma)

Master Of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering

Visiting Scholar, Workshop In Political Theory And Policy Analysis

Ms, Environmental Studies

Bs, Business (Minor In Computer Science)