Dr. Berea is a double PhD (economics and computational social sciences) and an associate professor of computational and data sciences at George Mason University. She is also a research investigator with Blue Marble Space and the co-PI and co-director of the George Mason Grand Challenge Initiative Space Center. Her research has focused mostly on applying computational and AI methods to astrobiology and space sciences, for which she received three awards of merit from Frontier Development Lab (AI Research Accelerator) and from NASA, as well as AI applications to oceanography and ocean conservation. Her current research is focused on using AI for cetacean conservation in partnership with the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation.
