Devika Jain

Devika Jain leads the area of AI and Data Science at the Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University. She is the Chair of Membership Committee of University Consortium for GIS (UCGIS) and Vice Chair of Applied Geography Specialty Group of American Association of Geographers (AAG). She is Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy and serves on Exam Development Committee of GISP-e. She has led the development of impactful solutions, including TSGI (a UN-recognized spatial well-being metric). She has also led the development of university-wide Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) at Harvard which is part of Open Geospatial Consortium (OCG's) National Spatial Data Modernization Hub. Jain has managed key projects funded by Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR), Harvard Data Science Initiative and the National Science Foundation.

Jain is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Geospatial World Rising Star Award, the Women in GIS and ESRI Distinguished Contributions Award, and the AAG Health Data Visualization Award. Her work has been featured in prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, MIT, NSF/IUCRC, MOC Alliance and Harvard News.

Prior to her role at the Center for Geographic Analysis, she worked with Fraunhofer IIS, the German Research Foundation, and the London School of Economics (LSE).