Dr. Anyamba is a Distinguished Research & Development Staff Member in the National Security Sciences Directorate (NSSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He leads the Remote Sensing Group in the Geospatial Science and Human Security Division. His research focus is on climate variability and its impacts on vector-borne disease outbreak patterns and agricultural production. He is the PI for Global Monitoring and mapping of chikungunya risk (CHIKRisk) Project (https://vbd.umbc.edu/).