Casey (Haoran) Shi is an anthropological archaeologist whose research explores how human societies build, maintain, and transform their technological relationships with uncertain environments. Trained in anthropology and geosciences, he brings together ethnography, geoarchaeology, remote sensing, and computer vision to study water management, land use, and cultural heritage in Central Asia and the Chinese borderlands. A parallel line of his research connects computational methods in archaeology to ancient technologies, asking how they both rely on tinkering, improvisation, and often makeshift solutions. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.