Our Team
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
Dr. Jennifer Sleeman (PI; AI Simulation Group) is a Senior Machine Learning Researcher in APL’s Artificial Intelligence Group with over 20 years of experience as an AI researcher, with a focus on climate science, weather and artificial intelligence using deep learning for various weather pollution projects.
Dr. Jay Brett (Use Case Modeling, Evaluation, and Data Acquisition Groups) is a Senior Oceanographer in APL’s Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Remote Sensing Sciences Group with expertise in numerical modeling of physical and biological processes of the ocean. Dr. Brett studied physical oceanography in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program and provides ocean physical modeling expertise to the Use Case Modeling, Evaluation, and Data Acquisition groups.
Marisa Hughes (Program Manager)
David Chung (AI Simulation Group)
Chace Ashcraft (AI Simulation Group)
Anshu Saksena (AI Simulation Group)
Larry White (Use Case Modeling, Evaluation, and Data Acquisition Groups)
Caroline Tang (Duke University - APL Intern) (AI Simulation Group)
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
Dr. Anand Gnanadesikan (Co-PI; Lead of Use Case Modeling Group) is an Earth System Modeler who works on the interactions between ocean circulation and atmosphere, biosphere and cryosphere. He has worked extensively on the physics responsible for setting the magnitude of the AMOC.
Dr. Yannis Kevrekidis (Co-PI; Physics-Informed Surrogate Model Group), a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is an applied mathematician/computational engineer with forty years expertise in nonlinear dynamics, data driven modeling (machine learning, manifold learning) and multiscale modeling, with an interface between traditional modeling and ML/neural network-based modeling in physics-informed data driven models. He has extensive expertise in the machine learning of tipping points for agent-based models.
Dr. Thomas Haine (Use Case Modeling Group)
Dr. Marie-Aude Pradal (Use Case Modeling Group)
Dr. Renske Gelderloos (Use Case Modeling Group)
University of California-Davis University (UC Davis)
Dr. Grey Nearing is an Assistant Professor at UC Davis and provides expertise in the area of hydrology and machine learning.