Co-Founder & Principal Consultant
Three Canyon Consulting · 2024–Present · Bend, OR
- AI and data strategy consulting for universities, health systems, and mission-driven organizations.
- Design data infrastructure, evaluate AI applications, and build decision-relevant insight pipelines.
Assistant Professor of Practice
University of Arizona · College of Information Science · 2023–Present
- Lead development of modular AI education platforms including adaptive tutors and automated feedback systems.
- Faculty Director of Instructional Computing (2025–present): supervise AI Core experiential learning program in AI + XR/VR.
- Co-lead AI Roadmap Committees for the Office for Responsible AI (2025–2026).
Computational & Data Science Educator
University of Arizona · Data Science Institute · 2022–2023
- Organized workshops promoting data science education and open science practices.
- Mentored 40+ graduate students and postdocs in reproducible research workflows.
Research Scientist
University of Arizona · Social Insect Lab · 2017–2022
- Designed and executed interdisciplinary empirical research on collective behavior and nest architecture.
- Built reproducible analysis pipelines with Binder and GitHub Actions.
Ph.D., Entomology & Insect Science
University of Arizona · 2022
Dissertation: The Influence of Nest Architecture on the Ant Temnothorax rugatulus
Advisor: Dr. Anna Dornhaus
B.S., Zoology
University of California, Santa Barbara · 2016
Advisors: Drs. Armand Kuris, Kevin Lafferty, Jonathan Pruitt
A.S., Biology
Shasta Community College · 2014
Duke 3C Fellow, Cohort 52024–Present
Jetstream2 AI Pilot Fellow — $5,0002024–2025
Posit Table Contest — Best Individual Table2024
EIS Carruth Award for Graduate Student Excellence — $5002021
GIDP–EIS Program Education Award — $2502020
All of Us Certified Data User (2024)Carpentries Instructor Trainer (2023)Carpentries Instructor (2022)
NAIRR AI Sandbox for Applied Neural Networks Education
NSF National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) · Lead-PI (85%) · 30K ACCESS GPU Credits (~$50,000)
Awarded — July 2025
Supporting Computational Resources for Advanced LLM & Data Science Modeling
NSF ACCESS Discover Award SOC25004 · Lead-PI (100%) · 1.5M ACCESS Credits (~$245,500)
Awarded — January 2025
Benchmarking AI Models for Patient Journey Analysis (MIMIC-III)
NSF ACCESS Explore Award MED250001 · Lead-PI (100%) · 400K ACCESS Credits (~$72,800)
Awarded — January 2025
MESA: Multidisciplinary Environment for Scientific Advancement
NSF IDSS · Sr. Personnel (5%) · $9,000,000 over 3 years · PI: Tyson Swetnam
Submitted December 2025 · Award Pending
Evaluation-First Agentic AI: A Modular Architecture for Reliable, Resource-Aware Human–AI Collaboration
Amazon ARA · Co-PI (50%) · 50K AWS Credits · $80,000 over 1 year
Submitted May 2025 · Pending
MAESTRO: Modular AI Evaluation with Self-Testing and Resilient Oversight
ONR MURI · Lead-PI (40%) · $4,676,845 over 5 years
Submitted May 2025 · Not Awarded
Mental-HEALTH-MAP
NIH R34 · Co-Investigator (25%) · $699,000 over 3 years · PI: Jennifer De La Rosa
Submitted October 2024 · Not Awarded
Peer-reviewed articles
De La Rosa, J. S., Chism, G. T., Herder, K. E., Mun, C. J., & Aaron, R. V. (2026). Do somatic symptoms bias depression screening? Reliability and equivalence of PHQ-8 in those with and without chronic pain.
Journal of Affective Disorders, 121496 ·
DOI Chism, G. T., Nichols, W., & Dornhaus, A. (2024). Cavity geometry shapes overall ant colony organization through spatial limits, but workers maintain fidelity zones.
Animal Behaviour, 216, 195–211 ·
DOI Swetnam, T. L., Antin, P. B., Bartelme, R., Bucksch, A., Camhy, D., Chism, G., … & Lyons, E. (2024). CyVerse: Cyberinfrastructure for open science.
PLOS Computational Biology, 20(2), e1011270 ·
DOI McEwen, B. L., Lichtenstein, J. L., Fisher, D. N., Wright, C. M., Chism, G. T., Pinter-Wollman, N., & Pruitt, J. N. (2020). Predictors of colony extinction vary by habitat type in social spiders.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74 ·
DOI Pruitt, J. N., Wright, C. M., Lichtenstein, J. L., Chism, G. T., McEwen, B. L., Kamath, A., & Pinter-Wollman, N. (2018). Selection for collective aggressiveness favors social susceptibility in social spiders.
Current Biology, 28(1), 100–105 ·
DOI Lichtenstein, J. L., Chism, G. T., Kamath, A., & Pruitt, J. N. (2017). Intraindividual behavioral variability predicts foraging outcome in a beach-dwelling jumping spider.
Scientific Reports, 7(1), 18063 ·
DOI Foster, W. C., Armstrong, C. M., Chism, G. T., & Pruitt, J. N. (2017). Smaller and bolder prey snails have higher survival in staged encounters with the sea star Pisaster giganteus.
Current Zoology, 63(6), 633–638 ·
DOI Book chapters
Keiser, C. N., Lichtenstein, J. L. L., Wright, C. M., Chism, G. T., Pruitt, J. N., Gonzalez-Santoyo, I., … & Gonzalez-Tokman, D. (2018). Personality and behavioral syndromes in insects and spiders.
Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences, 236–256
Works in progress
De La Rosa, J. S., Herder, K. E., Romero, R. D., Wolf, D. S. S., Largent-Milnes, T., Ibrahim, M. M., Pigott, S. S., Chism, G. T., Meyerson, B. E., Pilitsis, J. G., & Brady, B. R. (2025). Impact of Chronic Pain on the Families of US Adults. In revision at PAIN Reports.
Open source software & code
Chism, G. T. (2024). JupyterQuest v0.4.0. Zenodo.
Chism, G., & De La Rosa, J. (2025). PHQ-MH-CP Compendium v0.0.1. Zenodo.
Rice, L., Tate, S., Farynyk, D., Sun, J., Chism, G., … & Shin, M. C. (2020). ABCTracker: an easy-to-use, cloud-based application for tracking multiple objects.
University of Arizona
Faculty Director of Instructional Computing
College of Information Science · 2025–Present
- Supervise AI Core, a leading experiential learning program in AI + XR/VR.
- Provide free computing resources to support scalable, open-source learning environments.
Co-Lead, AI Roadmap Committees
Office for Responsible AI · 2025–2026
Infrastructure & Resources; Research — advancing AI integration and leadership within the University of Arizona.
Co-Director, Data Science Ambassadors Program
2024–Present
Guide students in community-based data science initiatives and outreach projects.
Faculty Awards Committee
College of Information Science · 2023–Present · Chaired 2025–2026
Helped more than double award nominations in 2024.
National & external
Carpentries Instructor Trainer
2023–Present
Train and mentor new instructors to promote inclusive, evidence-based teaching practices.
Quantum Computing Steering Committee
Arizona State University · 2025–Present
Identify joint funding opportunities between ASU and the University of Arizona.
Community outreach
Chair / Deputy Chair, Research Bazaar Arizona
2022, 2023
Organized interdisciplinary workshops; expanded collaboration to three universities.
Industry Careers in Data Science Speaker Series
2022–2023
Developed and hosted a speaker series on academic-to-industry transitions; ~20–40 attendees per session.