I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Geomatics program at the University of Florida, USA where my research involves assessing the quality of unconventional sources of geospatial data from digital sources (social media like Twitter, machine generated data e.g. GDELT) and their potential applications in disaster management, disease surveillance and tourism.
I have ten years experience in the field of geospatial engineering from working in both industry and academia. Prior to this Ph.D., I was a geopatial engineer at Kenya Power (5 years) where I was part of the team that pioneered the implementation of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the management of the company's infrastructure.
My interests are in advancing open science through evaluating the quality of newly evolving geodata sources (mostly free data sources) and provide interested parties with options especially since most geodata is plagued by limitations such as sociodemographic bias, geodata sparsity, data retrieval restriction, privacy concerns etc.