Dylan Keon is an assistant professor (senior research) in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University, and is the associate director of the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science & Engineering (NACSE). He has worked in the areas of spatial analysis, spatio-temporal data storage and processing, weather and climate data production, and decision support systems for over 20 years. He currently directs operations on several USDA-funded projects, with prior research funded by USDA, DOI, USGS, NSF, and various state and local agencies. He holds a Ph.D. in computational geography and M.S. in plant ecology and GIS/statistics, both from Oregon State University, and a B.S. in botany from Western Michigan University.