Benjamin Adams is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His expertise lies in the development and application of information retrieval and machine learning algorithms that aid the collection, management, analysis, and use of large spatial data sets to better support decision-making in complex environments. A key driver of his research is the goal of developing computational methods that can translate unstructured and semi-structured data that are created initially for human communication, such as crowdsourced social media and other natural language text and images, into forms that aid geographic problem solving.
