Dr. Dani Jones received her B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering with an emphasis in operations research from Mississippi State University. She earned her PhD in Biological and Agricultural Engineering with a concentration in energy systems from Texas A&M University. Before becoming a faculty member, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University. At North Carolina State University, she is a Research Assistant Professor in Biological and Agricultural Engineering, a faculty fellow in the Center for Geospatial Analytics, and a graduate faculty member in the Operations Research Program. She also holds a joint faculty appointment with the Economic and Operational Analysis Group at Idaho National Laboratory.