Karly K. Harrod

Karlyn Harrod joined ORNL in 2022 as a Research Associate in Data Science within the Remote Sensing Group of the Geospatial Sciences and Human Security Division of the National Security Sciences Directorate.  Her primary research interests are in applying machine learning and statistical techniques to further understandings of the impact between climate and diseases.  Karlyn was recently awarded as the Early Career Competition LDRD recipient for the National Security Sciences Directorate for FY24.  As a part of this award, she will be leading a project furthering the current awareness of ongoing and emerging diseases with the potential to accelerate current disease research by creating a toolkit capable of learning and extracting information from large corpuses of textual reports.