Stefan Einarson

Extension Support Specialist, School of Integrative Plant Science

About

Stefan Einarson serves as an Extension Support Specialist in the School of Integrative Plant Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. In this capacity, he has been involved with or led numerous Information Technology initiatives specializing in the developing world. He has extensive experience with Information Technology with a focus on building network and communication infrastructures in remote or poorly served areas, database management and machine learning and artificial intelligence. Previous positions in the private sector include manager of Information Technology, helping to lead an over 300 person IT department serving an 8000 person employee base. In this role he led project teams building both the application and network infrastructures for a Fortune 500 company serving over 3 million people in over five states. Through these projects he has extensive project management experience dealing with complex, time dependent assignments in both the corporate and international education worlds.

Education

M.B.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2000
Bachelor of Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Union College, 1987

Interests

Internet strengthening in the developing world

Digital Agriculture

Data Management

Contact Information

se57 [at] cornell.edu

Stefan in the news

A man standing and taking leafy, green produce from a woman sitting in a market

News

October 14, 2020

Cornell unites science and policy to end hunger

New farming methods and crops that perform better in a changing environment are essential to higher living standards, but obtaining these innovations are too often impossible for small-scale farmers. “Our interest is to have improved seed...

Department of Global Development
Agriculture
Food

News

October 17, 2018

Data project to support smallholder farmers, end hunger

Ceres2030 combines state-of-the-art modelling with expert evidence to strengthen the global agricultural development community as it prioritizes investments to eliminate hunger by 2030.