Summary
Christin Khan is a Fishery Biologist and innovation strategist with over a decade at NOAA Fisheries, specializing in applying AI, cloud computing, and very-high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor and protect endangered whales. She leads multidisciplinary collaborations with partners like Microsoft AI for Good, USGS, and the Polar Geospatial Center to operationalize Geospatial AI for Animals (GAIA) and automate photo-identification workflows for right whales. Her work spans field science—flying aerial surveys and maintaining public datasets—to market and product-focused efforts to accelerate ropeless fishing technology that reduces entanglement risk. Known for translating cutting-edge research into scalable, operational tools, she blends technical fluency in machine learning-enabled geospatial analytics with practical conservation action. Based in Falmouth, MA, she is open to advisory and innovation-focused collaborations that bridge AI, geospatial analytics, and sustainable fisheries.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science, Biology, Master of Science, Biology at San Francisco State University
B.S., Biology, B.S., Biology at Northeastern University
English