Our Team

Olivia Zhang

President

2024 - Present

Co-founded the Gainesville Chapter of the organization in August 2024. Has managed several projects like the LEAP dashboard, Environmental Justice Dashboard and collaboration with Fire Neural Network.

Kelly Tran

Core Contributor

2024 - Present

Kelly has created the documentation and built the map interface using React-Leaflet for the Environmental Justice Dashboard. She has also processed and analyzed lightning-wildfire data to support AI risk modelling.

Connor Ragland

Web Developer

2024 - Present

Connor is one of the lead developers for the DSSD Gainesville website.

Dylan Aaron

Core Contributor

2024 - Present

Lynn-Chian Chen

Core Contributor

2024 - Present

Aadit Kamat

Web Developer and Core Contributor

2025 - Present

Aadit is the other lead developer for the DSSD Gainesville website. He has contributed extensively to the LEAP Dashboard project and is also collaborating on the Environmental Justice Dashboard and the Fire Neural Network project.

Jason Peerboccus

Core Contributor

2025 - Present

Jason has led the Workshop Summit as well as assisted in cleaning data and training AI models as one of the developers for the for the Fire Neural Network data collection project.

Kushagra Katiyar

Core Contributor

2025 - Present

Kushagra is currently working on the Environmental Justice Dashboard.

Franchesca Pichardo

Core Contributor

2025 - Present