Dr. Joshua Viers is a Professor of Water Resources Management in the School of Engineering at UC Merced, where he also serves as the Associate Dean for Research and campus Director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). Since joining UC Merced, Dr. Viers has led campus efforts to build an Experimental Smart Farm, to develop a joint industry-university consortium on ag-food-tech research, and to convene several universities in developing water accounting methods to secure a climate resilient water future. His research is multi-disciplinary by design, team science based in execution, and dedicated to innovation in informatics and geospatial analysis in water and land management. He teaches environmental engineering with a focus on water resources management, geospatial analytics, ecosystem restoration and sustainability. Most recently, he is the lead investigator for the newly funded USDA Sustainable Agricultural Systems award on Securing a Climate Resilient Water Future for Agricultural and Ecosystems through Innovation in Measurement, Management, and Markets (https://securewaterfuture.net) and the lead UC Merced investigator for the USDA funded Institute on Agricultural Artificial Intelligence for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support (https://agaid.org).