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Michael Krisch is the Deputy Director of the Brown Institute, a bicoastal research institute at Columbia Journalism School and Stanford Engineering. At the institute, Krisch serves as an advisor to research and grants. He also is a lead instructor of Points Unknown, an advanced spatial data course taught in the graduate schools of journalism and architecture at Columbia University.