Nick LaLone is an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the School of Interactive Games and Media. His work focuses primarily on risk, equity, and technology’s role within risk–risk meaning how precarious his locale is with regard to natural (i.e., earthquakes, fires, flooding, etc.) or technological hazards (i.e., ransomware, hacking attacks, and other forms of losses of control). LaLone approaches this work in three specific ways: teaching emergency managers and software developers how to get to know each other, training emergency managers to use technology, and designing new technologies to encapsulate what we have found in our work.
Currently, LaLone is working on a textbook that centers on how data science and emergency management can be better to each other.