Isabella Smythe

Isabella Smythe

PhD Student

Isabella Smythe

Sustainable Development


Personal Details

Isabella is a fifth-year PhD student. She is interested in how machine learning and big data can inform decisions in the sustainable development space, particularly around food security, agriculture, and land use.



Isabella has a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University. Before coming to Columbia, she worked as a software engineer at a geospatial analytics company specializing in satellite imagery.