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

Google

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.

Pictures of Charlotte at her Summer internship.
In the summer of 2025 she will return as a full-time engineer.

Randy performs innovative research improving weather forecasting.
He is works at the intersection of satellite meteorology and deep learning.

[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 ScientistAtmospheric Data Scientist

Tomorrow.io

Vanessa Przybylo

Lead Data Scientist

National Grid

Tobias Schmidt

Meteorologist and Software Developer

Cascade Trading

Deianna Madlambayan

Evaluator

Urban Indian Health Institute

Chad Wiley

Space Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman

Charlotte Cabrera

Software Engineer

Google

Haley Perez

Software Engineer

ASRC Federal

Vincent Ferrera

Student

University of Delaware

Conner Flansburg

Software Engineer

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Josh Friesen

Student

Fresno Pacific University

Kayla Hoffman

Industry Collaborator

San Jose State University

Noah Lang

Graduate Student

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kaelia Okamura

Graduate Student

University of Southern California

Raven Reese

Graduate Student

Texas State University

Jordan Robinson

Student

Rhodes College

Colin Willingham

Graduate Student

University of Oklahoma

Joshua Pan

Graduate Student

Penn State University

Michael Yu

Graduate Student

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Alex Nozka

Graduate Student

University of Oklahoma

Chris Cepin

Student

North Carolina State University

Christopher Germano

Student

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Trevor Harms

Student

Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Michael Gray

Postdoctoral Scholar

North Carolina State University

Evan Krell

Staff

Navel Research Laboratory

Anna Lowe

Consultant

Freelance

Tiffany Le

Software Engineer

The Department of Defense

Alberto Liu

Student

University of Oklahoma

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

Dr. Kiri Wagstaff

Government and Academia

Jet Propulsion Laboratory & Oregon State University

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

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Academic Partners

15

Private and Government Partners

75+

Students Mentored

70+

Publications

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