Dr. Karen Chou conducts research in digital transformation of complex knowledge for agricultural practitioners and has developed a cloud-based platform, SustainableAg.msu.edu, which empowers crop growers by providing a range of safety and efficacy information for effective management decisions and automatically generating comprehensive spray records.
Dr. Karen Chou is an associate professor of environmental toxicology in the Department of Animal Science, Institute for Integrative Toxicology, and Environmental Science & Policy Program of Michigan State University. She received a BS in Human Nutrition from Fu Jen Catholic University, MS in Dairy Science from Michigan State University, and Ph.D. in Toxicology from the University of Michigan. She was a visiting scientist in the Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 2004-2006. Dr. Chou has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters and served on many advisory committees for federal and state agencies. She was the toxicology advisor for the Technical Outreach Service for Communities and Technical Assistance to Brownfield programs for several states in the US. Dr. Chou has organized international workshops on environmental risk assessment in Balkan countries. She teaches two graduate courses and three undergraduate courses in the areas of environmental health and management, chemical risk assessment, toxicology, and food safety. In addition, she has developed geospatial exposure models for the relationship between environmental health and socioeconomic factors.