Rosemarie Santa Gonzáles
Logistics modeler and participatory action scientist
Projects:
- Operations management
- Food logistics optimization models
- Synthesizing tabular data
Rosemarie Santa González is a Cyber Infrastructure Specialist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a research fellow with the ICICLE Institute, CIAS, and the Kaufman Lab in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Formerly a postdoctoral fellow and currently an affiliate at the Georgia Institute of Technology, she develops socially responsible AI solutions that empower underrepresented communities and advance sustainability. Her doctoral work in humanitarian logistics and her experience developing tools for mobile clinic deployment in conflict zones inform her current efforts to democratize AI technologies for improved food access and cold food supply chain resilience.
Keeping as paramount the ethical considerations in the development of AI decision support tools for food systems, her project creates tailored AI solutions that address the needs of communities and practitioners in the rural United States. As part of her project, she will produce educational and training materials that highlight ethical approaches in AI research and enable stakeholders, especially those serving underrepresented communities in agriculture, to effectively use and understand AI tools. Michelle Miller, a senior researcher and practicing economic anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, serves as Santa González’s fellowship mentor.