Pedram HassanzadehAssociate Professor

Research Focus:

extreme weather, scientific ML, climate change, fluid dynamics

Email:

pedramh@uchicago.edu

Biography

I am an associate professor at the Department of Geophysical Sciences and Committee of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Before joining UChicago, I was a tenured associate professor at Rice University. I received my Ph.D. (geophysical turbulence) and M.A. (applied mathematics) from UC Berkeley in 2013 and was a Ziff Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences from 2013 to 2016. I received a CAREER Award from NSF in 2021 and a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research in 2020.

I lead the Climate Extremes Theory and Data (CeTD) group focused on integrating theory, simulations, observations, and machine learning techniques to understand the dynamics and future changes of extreme weather events in a changing climate. I also lead the Data Science Institute’s AI for Climate (AICE) Initiative, which is focused on inter-disciplinary integration of AI with fundamental domain knowledge to accelerate and transform climate research with a focus on both scientific advances and societal impacts.

Open positions:

• Postdoctoral Scholar- AI weather emulators for geoengineering
• Postdoctoral Scholar - Climate Extremes, Dynamics and AI