Blake Byron Walker is Associate Professor for Digital Transformation in Human Geography at the Institute for Geography at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany. His research foci include artificial intelligence and machine learning methods in environmental health, built and socioeconomic environments, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and interpersonal violence. He completed a doctoral degree in 2016 at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and served as a guest researcher at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 2017-2019.