{"id":981,"date":"2022-07-26T15:29:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T19:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=981"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:26:04","slug":"sucharita-gopal","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/profiles\/sucharita-gopal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sucharita Gopal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor, Department of Earth &amp; Environment, College of Arts &amp; Sciences<br \/>\nResearch Professor, Global Development Policy Center<br \/>\nResearch Professor, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering<br \/>\nResearch Professor, Boston University Marine Program (BUMP)<br \/>\nResearch Professor, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/sucharita-gopal\/\">Click for most recent information and publications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Gopal\u2019s goal is to transform science into policy and action. Her research is multidisciplinary, dealing with spatial analysis and modeling, GIS, data mining and information visualization, and artificial neural networks. She has applied spatial analysis and modeling to address a variety of problems in ecology, sustainability, public health, and business, and she has also worked on uncertainty issues related to GIS. She has used neural networks for pattern classification, estimation, and mixture modeling. Her current funded research includes the development of ESGA analytics, AI (a SaaS platform) to guide sustainable investment, sustainable development goals (SDGs), marine conservation and planning, opioid risk mapping, network analysis of gas leaks, biodiversity impacts of energy investments, and mapping health service delivery in Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21184,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/981\/revisions\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}