Kellie Vache has been at Oregon State University since 2009, in the Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering (2009-2024) and currently in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His primary research focus centers on the application of computational strategies to complex environmental systems, with a current emphasis on the use of machine learning for the homogenization and spatiotemporal interpolation of large datasets across macro scales. He works within the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science (NACSE), a research center housed at the College of Engineering.