Dr. Steven P. Brumby is Co-Founder and Chief Science Advisor of Descartes Labs, a venture-backed start-up based in Santa Fe NM and San Francisco CA focused on understanding agriculture, natural resources and human geography using deep learning technology and satellite imagery. Previous to Descartes Labs, Steven was a Senior Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) working on deep-learning and genetic algorithms for video, image and signals analysis. Steven is a Senior Advisor to National Geographic Society leading the Geographic Visualization Lab, and a Senior Fellow with World Resources Institute, Food, Forests and Water Program. He is based in Washington DC. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in 1997.