Team
Pioneering AI and Earth Systems Science
NSF AI2ES is dedicated to multi-disciplinary research, creating new trustworthy AI methods in weather and oceanography while enhancing workforce skills to drive innovation and integrity in our initiatives.
Alumni Highlights
Our alumni leave NSF AI2ES and do amazing things in private industry, the government sector, and academia. Take a look!
Charlotte Cabrera
Software Engineer
“The communication and technical skills I learned while working for [NSF] AI2ES helped me collaborate with researchers from a wide array of expertise at Google.“
– Charlotte
Charlotte previously worked as an NSF AI2ES undergraduate research assistant. She worked on advanced ML methods for visibility estimation. At Google, Charlotte will be writing libraries and infrastructure as code to facilitate AI research. Her work from her Google internship is used by medical researchers to this day.
“[NSF] AI2ES gave me the skills to transition smoothly into industry where I get to leverage my new expertise in AI with the new and exciting frontier of weather forecasting with AI.“
– Randy
I will be helping enhance worldwide weather forecasting using tomorrow.io’s own microwave sounders. These microwave sounders take pictures of the world in the microwave spectrum to see deeper into clouds and precipitation as well as giving information on profiles of temperature and humidity. The goal of tomorrow.io is to have sub-hourly updates from a fleet of these sounders to enable better forecasts.
Randy Chase
Atmospheric Data Scientist
tomorrow.io
If you are an NSF AI2ES alumni and want to be featured, contact Mel or Susan!
Postdoctoral Scholars, Graduate Students, and Undergraduates
Our postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers. Thank you for your fantastic contributions!
Akansha Singh Bansal
Data Scientist
Bayer’s Crop Science R&D Division
Lauriana Gaudet
Staff Applied Meteorological Scienstist
The Weather Company
Maria Madsen
Climate Scientist
Salient
Jason Stock
Postdoctoral Appointee
Argonne National Laboratory
Monique Shotande
Applied Postdoctoral Fellow
Moffitt Cancer Center
Antonio Mamalakis
Assistant Professor
University of Virginia
Laura McGee
Research Physical Scientist
NOAA
Amanda Murphy
Dataflow Analyst
RedLine Performance Solutions, LLC
Randy Chase
Atmospheric Data Scientist
Tomorrow.io
Vanessa Przybylo
Data Science Manager
National Grid
Tobias Schmidt
Research Associate
Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory (CSSL)
Deianna Madlambayan
Evaluator
Urban Indian Health Institute
Chad Wiley
Space Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman
Charlotte Cabrera
Software Engineer
Haley Perez
Software Engineer
ASRC Federal
Vincent Ferrera
Research Assistant
University of Maryland
Conner Flansburg
Software Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Josh Friesen
Senior Robotics Software Engineer
Locus Robotics
Kayla Hoffman
Student
San Jose State University
Noah Lang
Graduate Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kaelia Okamura
Software Engineer
ServiceNow
Raven Reese
Graduate Student
Texas State University
Jordan Robinson
Graduate Research Assistant
Texas A&M University
Colin Willingham
1st Assistant Emergency Management Coordinator
Grayson County
Joshua Pan
Graduate Student
Penn State University
Michael Yu
Graduate Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alex Nozka
DevOps Engineer
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Chris Cepin
Student
North Carolina State University
Christopher Germano
Graduate Student
Florida State University
Trevor Harms
Student
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Michael Gray
Postdoctoral Scholar
North Carolina State University
Evan Krell
Postdoctoral Researcher
Naval Research Laboratory
Anna Lowe
Consultant
Freelance
Tiffany Le
Software Engineer
Tinker Air Force Base
Alberto Liu
Software Developer
Paycom
Max Sasser
Teacher
ESS and Sylvan Learning
Luke Terry
Associate
Rockwell Automation
Jay Rothenberger
Advanced AI Engineer
Honeywell
William McGovern-Fagg
Certified Flight Instructor
Andrew Justin
Raytheon
Ashley Marines
Graduate Research Assistant
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi
Nicolas “Nico” Gordillo
Graduate Student
Colorado State University
Yoonjin Lee
Research Scientist
Seoul National University
Hue Dinh
Collaborator
Charles “Chuck” White
Research Scientist
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
Hunter Smith
PhD Student
University of California, Santa Barbara
External Advisory Board
Our prior advisory board members. Thank you for your time and service!
Dr. Bill Gail
Private Industry
Global Weather Corporation
Dr. Nicol Turner Lee
Non-Profit
The Brookings Institution
Jim Stear
Private Industry
Chevron Energy Technology Company
Team Members
Our prior team members. Thank you for your support!
Sid Boukabara
Government Collaborator
NASA
Jerald “Jerry” Brotzge
Collaborator
Western Kentucky University
Waylon Collins
Government Collaborator
National Weather Service
Christopher D. Wirz
Associate Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Marie McGraw
Climate Insight Scientist
Jupiter Intelligence
Ryan Lagerquist
Principal Atmospheric Scientist
MyRadar
Chuck Anderson
Professor
Colorado State University
Elizabeth Barnes
Professor
Boston University
Mariana Cains
Scientific Liaison
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
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Students Mentored
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