Dr. Pedram Hassanzadeh

Director, Associate Professor

Department of Geophysical Sciences
Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
Director: AI for Climate (AICE) Initiative, Data Science Institute
PI of the CSSI-GW Project
Co-PI of the DataWave Project
Associate Editor, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (AGU journal)
Co-editor, Weather and Climate Dynamics (EGU journal)
Editorial Board, Environmental Research: Climate

Email: pedramh@uchicago.edu
Twitter: @turbulentjet

CV: Hassanzadeh_CV_2022
Math Genealogy of our group

Education & Appointments:

Director: AI for Climate Initative (AICE), DSI, 2024-present
Affiliate Faculty, Data Science Institute (DSI), University of Chicago, 2024-present
Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Chicago, 2024-present
Associate Professor (with tenure), Rice University, 2023
Assistant Professor, Rice University, 2016-2023
Visiting Staff: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, WHOI, 2016-present
Faculty Associate: Baker College, Rice University, 2017-2023
Associate: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 2015-2016
Ziff Environmental Fellow: Center for the Environment, Harvard University, 2013-2015
PhD: Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2013
MA: Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 2012
Fellow: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, WHOI, 2012
MS: Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2007
BS: Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, 2005

Honors & Awards:

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2021
Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR), 2020
Early-Career Research Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program, 2018
Ziff Environmental Fellowship, Harvard University Center for the Environment, 2013–2015
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2012
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2009–2011
Outstanding Preliminary Examination Award, ME Department, UC Berkeley, 2009
Jonathan Laitone Memorial Scholarship, ME Department, UC Berkeley, 2009
International Graduate Student Award, University of Waterloo, 2005–2007

Dr. Qiang Sun

Research Scientist

qiangsun@uchicago.edu
Google scholar

Princeton/GFDL, Postdoctoral Researcher
Penn State University, Ph.D. Atmospheric Science

Dr. Hamid Pahlavan

Research Scientist

pahlavan@uchicago.edu
Personal website
Google scholar

Jointly advised by Dr. Joan Alexander at NWRA
University of Washington, Seattle, Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington, Seattle, M.S. Atmospheric Sciences

Dr. Alex Wikner

Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow

awikner@uchicago.edu
Google scholar

University of Maryland, College Park, Ph.D. Physics

Dr. Katie Kowal

Research Scientist

katiekowal@uchicago.edu
LinkedIn

University of Oxford, DPhil Hydrology
University of Oxford, M.Sc. Environmental Change and Management
Lewis & Clark College, B.A. Physics and Political Science

Dr. Rajat Masiwal

Postdoctoral Researcher

rajatm@uchicago.edu

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Ph.D. Atmospheric Science

Dr. Bing Gong

Research Scientist

gongbing@uchicago.edu
Google Scholar

Technical University of Madrid, Spain, Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Justin Finkle

Postdoctoral Fellow

jfinkel@uchicago.edu
Personal website
Google scholar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Postdoctoral Associate
University of Chicago, Ph.D. Computational and Applied Mathematics

Dr. Jess Wan

Climate Systems Engineering Initiative (CSEi) Postdoctoral Fellow

jesswan@uchicago.edu
Personal website
Google scholar

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Ph.D. Earth Sciences, 2025
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, M.S. Oceanography, 2021
Cornell University, B.S. Environment & Sustainability, 2020