Lauren Bennett, PhD

Lauren Bennett is Program Manager of Spatial Analysis and Data Science at Esri. She oversees research and development for data analysis features within the company’s geographic information system (GIS) software systems. This includes spatiotemporal statistics, spatial machine learning, and multidimensional and big data analytics. Since joining Esri in 2007, Lauren also has served as Software Development Team Lead, Spatial Statistics Product Engineer, and Federal Solution Engineer. She earned a bachelors and master’s degree in geography from McGill University and George Mason University, respectively, and a doctorate in Information Science from Claremont Graduate University.