Team

Seth Guikema

Professor, Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering

Human trafficking is a relatively new area of research for me. I had been conducting research on natural hazards, community resilience, infrastructure, and issues of inequities in urban spaces. As I learned more about human trafficking, particularly sex trafficking, and the relative paucity of quantitative analysis in this area I realized that this was both a tremendous problem in the U.S. and one in which many of my data analytic techniques could potentially be helpful for. But this is not an area someone like me – an engineer and data scientist with no formal training in addressing trafficking – can successfully work in without a very strong interdisciplinary team with team members that have deep domain knowledge and experience. I’m happy to play a small role in helping to better understand and address human trafficking.

If you are in the United States and you need help or you want to learn more about human trafficking:

Call: 1 (888) 373-7888
National Human Trafficking Hotline
SMS: 233733 (Text “HELP” or “INFO”)
Hours: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Languages: English, Spanish, and 200 more languages
Website: humantraffickinghotline.org

 

humantrafficking@umich.edu

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