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Dr. Timothy (Tim) Fraser is an Ezra Systems Research Associate in the Systems Engineering Program at Cornell University. He is also Coordinator for the Center for Transportation, Environment, & Community Health (CTECH) at Cornell. He is a former Ezra Systems Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell, and has a PhD in Political Science from Northeastern University.
Tim develops methods & software to help communities combat climate change, using big data analytics, networks, GIS, and AI. He has authored 41 peer-reviewed studies, plus dashboards, R packages, software, and chapters , focusing on urban resilience, disasters, energy, health, and the pandemic in the US and Japan.
His recent has been funded by multiple external grants from Fulbright & the Natural Hazards Center, as well as internal grants from Northeastern University. In 2016, he was a Fulbright Fellow at Kyushu University, Japan. Tim teaches statistics and research methods, using examples from environmental policy, and enjoys leading research with undergraduates and master’s students. He also runs tutorials on data science in R.
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Areas of Expertise
Political Methodology
Big Data and APIs
Dashboards & DataViz
AI & Automated Reporting
Climate Change & Community Resilience
Urban Policy & GIS
Renewable Energy Policy
Network Statistics
Environmental Policy
Japanese Politics

Featured Work
Climate Action in Transportation Dashboard
Visualize your county's emissions from transportation! Powered by Gao Labs @ Cornell
Social Capital Indices Map Every US Census Tract
New Open-Access study out in Nature Scientific Reports
Community Resilience in Japan Dashboard
How prepared in your city for crisis? Find out here!

Research

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Interview in the field with environmental activists in Japan

Interview in the field with environmental activists in Japan

Highlights

  • 41 peer-reviewed publications, 7 chapters, 2 reports, 8 software packages, & more!

  • Social Network Analysis, GIS, Panel Statistics, Surveys, Fieldwork

  • 25 student coauthors

  • Consulted for UNDP Accelerator Labs and other groups.

Past Projects

Projects
Networks & Resilience
Mapping Resilience
Social Ties & Pandemics
Polarization & Health
Social Mobilization & Energy Policy
Japanese Environmental Policy
Scholarly Networks

Collaborating Researchers

Coauthors

  • Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern University

  • Courtney Page-Tan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  • Andrew Chapman, Kyushu University

  • Pinar Temocin, Hiroshima University

  • Costas Panagopoulos, Northeastern University

  • Sameera Nayak, Northeastern University

  • Juheon Lee, Midwestern State University

  • Melanie Fraser, Cornell University

  • Daniel Kim, Northeastern University

Frequent Student Coauthors

  • Larissa Morikawa

  • Andrew Small

  • Lily Cunningham

  • Mary Bancroft

  • Eri Lee

  • Nikki Naquin

  • Dustin Hinkley

  • Amos Nasongo

Together, these students and I applied data science techniques and published 7 peer-reviewed studies in top journals in environmental policy, including:

  • Global Environmental Change

  • Environmental Innovations & Societal Transitions

  • Climate Risk Management

  • Journal of Environmental Management

  • Global Environmental Politics

  • and more!

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Public Scholarship & Press

Teaching

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