Troy Wiipongwii

Adjunct Lecturer and Incoming Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Conservation

Social Media: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/troywiipongwii/
Focus Areas: Web 3.0 and Innovation in Food Systems, Ecopreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship Indigenous Food Systems, Economic Development in Southwest Virginia, Multi-criteria Decision-making, Governance of Web 3.0, Governance within a Web 3.0 world, Ecological Market-design

Biography

Troy Wiipongwii is an Adjunct Lecturer for the Institute for Integrative Conservation and the IIC's Incoming Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Conservation (beginning August 2024). Troy is also a W&M 2023-2024 Strategic Cultural Partnerships Faculty Fellow. His prior appointments at W&M include affiliate faculty and Director of the Global Research Institutes Blockchain Lab. Troy was named by Virginia Business as one of the top 100 people to meet in 2023.

Wiipongwii's research broadly addresses two major themes. The first theme relates to “Web 3.0” technologies (AI/ML, Blockchain, IoT) and their impacts on food systems, from production and consumption to entrepreneurship. The second concerns the politics and policies, directly and indirectly, impacting food systems. He is particularly interested in designing and evaluating Web 3.0 software that supports data sovereignty, sustainable food recommendations, sustainable food supply chains, Indigenous food sovereignty, and sustainable food enterprises. Additionally, he is interested in exploring how the politics of Indigenous sovereignty impacts Indigenous peoples' ability to address conservation and economic issues.

Education and Training:

PhD, Data Science and Technology, School of Technology, Capitol Technology University, 2022
MPP, School of Public Policy, William & Mary, 2018
BS, Applied Mathematics, Southern New Hampshire University, 2016

Research Projects (Current):

Developing a Decision-Support Tool for Achieving Food Sovereignty on Native American Tribal Lands in Virginia
Project Trace: Developing Traceability Tools for Southwest Virginia's (SWVA) Growing Craft Brewing Industry

Publications:

Conrad, Zach; Cyril, Ashley; Kowalski, Corina; Jackson, Erin; Hendrickx, Brittany; Lan, Jessie Jie; McDowell, Acree; Salesses, Meredith; Love, David C; Wiipongwii, Troy; Zhang, Fang Fang; Blackstone, Nicole Tichenor. (2022). Diet sustainability analyses can be improved with updates to the Food Commodity Intake Database. Frontiers in Nutrition (In Press).
Ibba, N., Wiipongwii, T., & Chung, T. T. R. (2021). SimChain: Simulator for Supply Chain Decision Making with Blockchain.
Hibbert, G., & Wiipongwii, T. (2020) Blockchain and COVID-19 in Indian Country. Www.diplomaticourier.com. Retrieved December 20, 2021, from https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/blockchain-and-covid-19-in-indian-country
Keilitz, I., & Wiipongwii, T. (2019). Ten Things You Should Know About Blockchain Today: A Guide for Court Managers. Court Manager Vol. 34 #2 – Summer 2019
Keilitz, I., & Wiipongwii, T. (2017). Blockchain and international development: Can blockchain technology be the solution to effective land registration systems in developing nations? Wm. & Mary Pol'y Rev., 9, 52.

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