Summary
Lilly Jones-Sanovia is an engineering-trained research faculty and founder with over 20 years of experience designing geospatial and environmental analytics systems that turn complex data into decision-ready solutions for wildfire risk, hydrology, and infrastructure resilience. With a PhD in Geological Engineering and a systems-oriented, quantitative approach, she blends machine learning, cloud-native architectures, and high-performance geospatial workflows to deliver operational tools for government, industry, and Tribal partners. At the University of Colorado Boulder she applies remote sensing and ML to environmental hazards and co-teaches Earth Data Science, while through Daear Consulting she translates governance and policy constraints into robust, implementable data architectures. Dual U.S.-Canada citizenship and a career spanning academia, consulting, and community-focused instruction reflect her flexibility to lead cross-jurisdictional projects and embed technical rigor into real-world decision processes.
11 years of coding experience
BS, Environmental Science/Earth Science, BS, Environmental Science/Earth Science at Oglala Lakota College
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geology and Geological Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geology and Geological Engineering at South Dakota Mines
English, Spanish, French, ojibwa, lakota, r, c, fortran, python