Edward Boyda is a data scientist with the California non-profit Earth Genome and a contributor to the AI-Journalism resource center at OsloMet University. He runs satellite- and open-data investigations for environmental and human rights reporting. His current focus is on illegal mining and logging and the impacts on nearby communities. He helped build Amazon Mining Watch. Previously, he was a professor of physics at Saint Mary's College of California, with interests in particle physics and quantum computing.