Prof. Pedram Hassanzadeh
Group Director, Associate Professor
pedramh@uchicago.edu
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University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
University of California at Berkeley, M.A. Mathematics
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Dr. Katie Kowal
Research Scientist, Director of AI Weather
University of Oxford, DPhil Hydrology
University of Oxford, M.Sc. Environmental Change and Management
Dr. Bing Gong
Research Scientist
gongbing@uchicago.edu
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Technical University of Madrid, Spain, Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Alex Wikner
Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow
awikner@uchicago.edu
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University of Maryland, College Park, Ph.D. Physics
Dr. Rajat Masiwal
Postdoctoral Researcher
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Ph.D. Atmospheric Science
Dr. Justin Finkel
AI for Climate DSI Postdoctoral Fellow
jfinkel@uchicago.edu
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MIT, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Postdoctoral Associate
University of Chicago, Ph.D. Computational and Applied Mathematics
Dr. Jess Wan
CSEi Postdoctoral Fellow
jesswan@uchicago.edu
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Ph.D. Earth Sciences Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, M.S. Oceanography
Dr. Jhayron S. Pérez-Carrasquilla
AI for Climate DSI Postdoctoral Scholar
jhayron@uchicago.edu
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University of Maryland, College Park, Ph.D. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Dr. Lualawi Mareshet Admasu
Postdoctoral Researcher
lualawi@uchicago.edu
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University of British Columbia, Ph.D. Atmospheric Science
Anna Asch
PhD Student (Computational and Applied Math)
aasch@uchicago.edu
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Cornell University, B.A. Mathematics
Katy Rucker
PhD Student (Geophysical Sciences)
Co-advised with Prof. Tiffany Sahw
University of California, Los Angeles, B.S. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, B.S. Mathematics
Weidong Li
PhD Student (Geophysical Sciences)
weidongli@uchicago.edu
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Tsinghua University, M.S. Hydrometeorology
Zhixing Liu
PhD Student (Geophysical Sciences)
zhixingliu@uchicago.edu
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Co-advised with Prof. Dorian Abbot
University of California, Santa Barbara, B.S. Physics, B.S. Statistics
Tina Wang
PhD Student (Computational and Applied Math)
jw2181@uchicago.edu
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University of Cambridge, Master of Mathematics (Part III)
Adam Marchakitus
Research Staff
University of Chicago, B.S. Environmental Science, B.S. Data Science
Daniel Boscu
Undergraduate Researcher
danielboscu@uchicago.edu
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University of Chicago, B.S. Computational and Applied Mathematics (expected 2028)
Mauricio Ortiz
Research Program Coordinator, AI for Climate Initiative
University of Chicago, Master of Public Policy
Madyson Miller
Program Manager for AI Weather
University of the Virgin Islands, M.S. Marine and Environmental Science
Former Members
Prof. Y. Qiang Sun
Postdoctoral fellow and research scientist (2022-2026)
Next position: Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University
Prof. Ashesh Chattopadhyay
PhD student (2017-2022)
Thesis: Theoretical and applied deep learning for turbulence
Next position: Assistant Professor of Applied Math, UC Santa Cruz
Prof. Yifei Guan
Postdoctoral fellow (2020-2024)
Next position: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Union College
Prof. Lei Wang
Postdoctoral fellow (2017-2018)
Next position: Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Purdue University
Dr. Ebrahim Nabizadeh
PhD student (2021-2022)
Thesis: Variability and dynamics of atmospheric blocking events under climate change
Next position: ML scientist at Verisk
Dr. Karan Jakhar
PhD student (2021-2025)
Thesis: Equation eiscovery and deep Learning for geophysical turbulence
Next position: AI+weather research scientict at Pravah
Dr. Sandro Lubis
Postdoctoral fellow (2019-2022)
Next position: Research scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL)
Dr. Dhruvit Patel NSF Postdoctoral fellow (2024-2025)
Next position: Founding research scientist at Silurian AI
Dr. Rambod Mojgani
Postdoctoral fellow (2021-2024)
Next position: now ML research engineer at RTX
Dr. Amin Khodkar
Postdoctoral fellow (2017-2019)
Next position: Postdoc at UCLA
Dr. Cedric Gillmann
Postdoctoral fellow (2021-2023)
Next position: Senior researcher at ETH
Dr. Maxime Maurice
Postdoctoral fellow (2021-2023)
Next position: scientist at LMD, IPSL
David Lee
MS student (2018-2020)
Thesis: Reduced-order modeling of turbulent plane Couette flow using the Green’s function method and fluctuation-dissipation theorem
Next position: USAF pilot
Moein Darman
MS student (2022-2024)
Thesis: Explainable transfer learning for turbulence closure modeling
Next position: PhD student at UC Santa Cruz
Lichuan Xu
MS student (2024-2026)
Thesis: Interpretation of convolutional autoencoders as a dimension reduction tool for 2D turbulence
Adam Subel
Undergraduate researcher (2018-2021), Rice MECH/CAAM undergraduate student
Next position: PhD student at Courant Institute (NYU). While a student at Rice, Adam won an NSF GRP Fellowship and received the Distinguished Research Excellence Award from the Rice Engineering Alumni.
Joey Lou
Undergraduate researcher (2018-2019), Rice MECH/CAAM undergraduate student
Next position: Graduate student at UC Berkeley
Sebastian Jia
Undergraduate researcher (Summer 2017), Rice MECH undergraduate student
Next position: Graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania