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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 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

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+
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