Devika Jain

At CGA, Devika Jain leads the area of GeoAI, Spatial Data Science and Big Data using High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud Computing. She has led the development of impactful solutions, including TSGI (a UN-recognized spatial well-being metric), RINX- a transformative tool for the handling of raster big data , and a novel K-NN method enabling the first individual-level analysis of partisan segregation in USA. 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), the National Science Foundation’s Industry–University Cooperative Research Centers (NSF/IUCRC), and the Gates Foundation. 

Jain is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Springer Nature's Editor of Distinction Award, 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.

She is 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.

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). She holds a Master of Science in Geoinformation Science from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany and Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from HBTU, India.