1. Personal Introduction
Joanne Ho
17 August 2011
ISCRAM Summer School
Tilburg University
2. Past Research
(doctoral research, University of Washington)
● Quantitative predictions on weather-induced natural
disasters
○ Flood
○ Drought
○ Forest fires
○ Crop loss
● Financial hedging and Insurance strategies to damages
○ weather derivatives
○ option pricing
○ actuarial pricing
3. Background
Interdisciplinary Sciences:
● Social (Economics, Anthropology)
● Natural (Forest ecology, Meteorology)
● Quantitative (Applied Statistics, Spatial analyses)
Industrial experience:
● Red Cross
○ Disaster Preparedness
○ Disaster response (Mass Care)
○ GIS data management
● Software
○ data mining
○ targeted advertisement campaigns
○ distributed systems/cloud computing
● Project Management
○ agile development (planning in midst of chaos)
4. Current Work (Two problems to solve)
Technology from the Advertising Industry:
Collect and disseminate real-time data on needs and
resources (IT for supply chain and logistics)
Organizational structures and methodologies:
For multi-lateral, multi-agency collaboration, establish
guidelines/principles to cultivate situational management
method specific to situation (location, personnel, disaster
type).
5. Contact Info
Joanne Ho
jjho@uw.edu
agile.joanneandpieter.com
