Dr. Timothy (Tim) Fraser is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Systems Engineering Program at Cornell University , where he has been working since 2022. He is also Coordinator for the Center for Transportation, Environment, and Community Health (CTECH) .

Dr. Fraser is a computational social scientist , developing methods, systems, and software to help communities combat environmental crises. He has published >50 peer-reviewed studies , plus dashboards, R packages, and software, on urban resilience and environmental systems in the US and Japan. He uses big data, networks, GIS, AI, and more to understand environmental policy systems. His research has been funded by multiple national grants, including Fulbright .

He has advised researchers on social infrastructure at the OECD and UN Development Programme's Accelerator Labs , and earned his PhD from Northeastern University in 2022.

Current Research Focus: Developing AI and cloud computing tools to quantify, visualize, and communicate environmental policy data to the public, to support community action and resilience in socio-technical systems.