Alumni
James Rising graduated from Columbia in 2015 (current website).
James is an interdisciplinary modeler, studying the feedback between environmental and human systems, and focusing on the impacts of climate change and the water-energy-food nexus. He draws upon analytical and empirical approaches from multiple fields and develops computational and statistical models to understand integrated global challenges. He has also had a career as a software developer, working with over a dozen companies on audio and video processing, social networks, and artificial intelligence.