Lynn Hsieh, Ph.D.
NOAH Director of Software Solutions and Asian Markets
Dr. Lynn Hsieh’s professional interest in optimizing water and agricultural systems with advanced data analysis and modeling was not by accident; it was largely inspired by her family’s farm in Taiwan.
Lynn earned her Doctorate degree at the University of Arizona in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. As Director of Software Solutions for NOAH, she is the critical bridge to integrating NOAH’s advanced data-acquisition and data-driven modeling with customized and cost-effective software solutions.
Lynn has the unique requisite combination of mathematical and modeling expertise in AI, statistics, and optimization with mastery of relevant computer languages and related data visualization programs, including Python, R, ArcGIS, Quantum GIS, Matlab, and SPSS. Even before she authored a published textbook on GIS, as a young Doctoral student, she developed a geospatial contouring algorithm with an interface that projected generated contour maps over ArcGIS maps.
Lynn and her NOAH team ensure a smooth flow of data and model generated predictions and solutions that are provided in multiple formats as needed, including digitally, charts, graphs, and maps. She also oversees NOAH’s internal testing and benchmarking of open-source AI software against proprietary licensed software. This ensures a robust evaluation of the most appropriate software for different applications, with optimal integration and deployment of software packages and algorithms, depending on client needs, resources, and capabilities.
As a former professor at a Taiwanese university, Lynn is passionate about helping NOAH transform the water industry into a data-driven sector that leverages advanced analytics to its full potential. Her background in a range of advanced modeling applications in water, energy, and human health related areas will greatly assist NOAH in these efforts. Her published work includes geostatistical interpolation of space-time precipitation for a real-time hazard forecasting system, modeling the impacts of large-scale climatic conditions on localized hydrologic systems, statistical correlations between chemical contaminants and human health, and quantitative assessments of renewable energy sources.
Lynn also serves as NOAH’s Director of Asian Markets. Like other NOAH members, her extensive travels and immersion in other cultures have opened her eyes to the universal commonalities, challenges and concerns faced by people in all nations. She believes that science and technology should and can be used to combat some of these great challenges, including water scarcity, famine, climate change, and habitat destruction.
Lynn is standing in front of an ancient waterwheel in the spectacular Yunnan Province, China. As an engineer with a hydrology and agricultural engineering background, the waterwheel piques Lynn’s interest. The waterwheel may have been the earliest mechanical energy source to replace that of humans and animals, performing muscle straining tasks like moving water and grinding grain. The Yunnan province is blessed by prolific water sources, including six major river systems and large lakes. It is also China’s most diverse province, biologically as well as culturally, containing both true tropical environments and snow-capped mountains. A nature lover, it is one of Lynn’s favorite places in the world.