Director, Innovation and Engagement, Office of Research and Innovation
About
Jaron Porciello is Director of Innovation and Engagement for Cornell CALS, where she brings people and ideas together to help move research beyond the university and into the world. She works across faculty, students, businesses, governments, and other partners to build collaborations, support entrepreneurship, and create new opportunities for CALS.
Jaron is a data scientist and startup co-founder who has spent much of her career working at the intersection of research, technology, and collaboration. Her work has taken her across higher education, the private sector, government, philanthropy, and nonprofits. She enjoys bringing people with different perspectives to the same table to ask: what does it take to create the conditions for transformative scientific breakthroughs, and are we investing in the partnerships and programs that can help us get there?
Education
PhD coursework, Computing and Information Sciences, Cornell University (2013-2015)
Master of Arts in English, Indiana University (2008)
Master of Information and Library Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (2007)
Bachelor of Arts, Indiana University (2003)
Interests
Digital agriculture
Data analytics
Meta science, evidence-based policy, and building partnerships
A systematic analysis of 40 years of studies on public crop breeding programs found that cereal grains receive significantly more research attention than other crops important for food security and only 33% of studies sought input from both men...
Benjamin Houlton, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean, recognized 41 faculty and staff members for their remarkable accomplishments at the 2021 CALS Research, Extension and Core Value Staff Awards ceremony.
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station