{"id":6042,"date":"2010-08-17T17:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=6042"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:13:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:13:06","slug":"sucharita-gopal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/sucharita-gopal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sucharita Gopal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12292 size-full\" title=\"suchi tumbnail\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2016\/03\/suchi.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"149\" \/>Faculty Associate<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/past-faculty-research-fellows\/\">Faculty Research Fellow (2015-2018)<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:suchi@bu.edu\">suchi@bu.edu<\/a><br \/>\n617-353-5744<\/p>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<p>BA, MSc, BEd, MPhil, Madras University; PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Expertise<\/h3>\n<p>Neural network applications in remote sensing and GIS domains, spatial analysis and statistics, and multi-scale spatial modeling.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Suchi Gopal is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University (BU), a<br \/>\nresearch affiliate at five centers at Boston University. She serves on the Faculty Steering Committee of<br \/>\nGlobal Development Policy Center and is a faculty associate at the Frederick Pardee Center for the Study<br \/>\nof the Longer-Range Future. She holds a visiting professor appointment at the Vienna University of<br \/>\nBusiness and Economics in Austria. Her multi-disciplinary research primarily delves into the intricate<br \/>\nworld of geospatial data analysis and modeling, GIS, data mining, information visualization, and artificial<br \/>\nneural networks. Over the years, Dr. Gopal has pioneered numerous methodologies and concepts,<br \/>\nincluding fuzzy sets in accuracy assessment, neural networks for pattern classification, estimation, and<br \/>\nmixture modeling. Her work often combines data science and statistical analysis with practical<br \/>\napplications in urban planning, systems modeling, public health, and sustainable finance, resulting in<br \/>\nholistic solutions to some of society\u2019s most challenging problems.<\/p>\n<p>Her recent work includes applying ecosystem-based management to inform the planning and leasing<br \/>\nprocess for offshore wind energy production in the Gulf of Maine, gendered food security in Lake<br \/>\nVictoria, coastal ecosystem modeling and designing decision support tools, deep learning Ai for<br \/>\nmangrove mapping, and panel modeling for analyzing opioid addiction. Besides her scholarly pursuits,<br \/>\nDr. Gopal advocates for STEM education and public outreach. She won the BU faculty Ignition Seed<br \/>\ngrant and participated in the MassChallenge FinTech competition for startups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Associate Faculty Research Fellow (2015-2018) Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University suchi@bu.edu 617-353-5744 Education BA, MSc, BEd, MPhil, Madras University; PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara Expertise Neural network applications in remote sensing and GIS domains, spatial analysis and statistics, and multi-scale spatial modeling. Biography Dr. Suchi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3389,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33216,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6042\/revisions\/33216"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}