Grace Wu
Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara
Goleta, California, United States
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Top SchoolGrace Wu is an assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience applying remote sensing and spatial analysis to scale land-based climate mitigation—renewables, agriculture, and reforestation—while minimizing conservation trade-offs. Trained with a PhD and MS in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley and an MPhil in Evolutionary Genetics from Cambridge, she bridges ecological theory, energy systems, and spatial optimization. Her work blends academic research and applied policy experience from roles at The Nature Conservancy, NCEAS, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where she developed renewable energy zoning and GIS-based resource quantification for large geographies such as India. Grace leads the Spatial Climate Solutions lab, generating actionable maps and decision tools that make trade-offs between clean energy deployment and biodiversity explicit. Beyond conventional academic metrics, she has a track record of translating spatial models into policy-relevant valuation and zoning frameworks used by conservation and planning practitioners. Based in Goleta, CA, she combines field-informed ecological insights with advanced spatial data science to guide pragmatic climate solutions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Energy and Resources, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Energy and Resources at University of California, BerkeleyMPhil, Evolutionary Genetics, MPhil, Evolutionary Genetics at University of CambridgeBA, Biology, History, BA, Biology, History at Pomona College
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
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Github contributions (5)
grace-cc-wu/globiom_processing
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
grace-cc-wu/LandUsePathwaysTo100
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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