Thiri is an accomplished environmental scientist specializing in Land Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) and energy systems. Her extensive expertise includes remote sensing, ecology, biogeochemistry, and land change modeling. Currently, Thiri's research focuses on advancing methods, models, and emerging technologies in data science for processing, analyzing, and fusing heterogeneous remote sensing data, and their applications to Earth System Science and areas of societal benefit, particularly in data-scarce conflict regions. Thiri's approach involves using geospatial science and data to capture, analyze, and predict the intricacies of LCLUC at various scales, allowing for an understanding of the environmental and societal impacts of such changes through land system analysis. She has extensive experience investigating the impacts of armed conflict on land use, cropland abandonment, and socioeconomics, utilizing remote sensing, geospatial analysis, and modeling approaches. Her work has been published in over 20 peer-reviewed scientific journals. Thiri leads the CEFWG, an organization that utilizes geography and remote sensing to establish connections between environmental condition, land use, and climate change with processes of conflict, displacement, and resilience. Her research has received funding from esteemed institutions such as the European Union, the World Bank, and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thiri is currently focused on developing innovative methods to harness satellite data and artificial intelligence to investigate human rights violations and environmental crimes during conflict and resource exploration.