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Earth Signals and Systems Group

Informatics and Intelligent Systems for Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science

People

Sai Ravela, Director —
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Stochastic Processes,  Estimation, Control, Optimization, Learning and Inference, Autonomous Observatories, Computational Intelligence — with application to Earth, Planets, Climate, and Life

Visiting Scientists and Postdoctoral Associates


Dr. ​William Rodi — Seismology, Uncertainty, and Inversion.
Dr. Michael Barbehenn, Ecological Informatics, and Statistical Inference.

Dr. Anamitra Saha — Flood Extremes and Climate, Physically-driven Machine Learning

Dr. Jiangchao Qiu  – Hydrological and Hydrodynamic Simulation, Compound Hydrometeorology Extremes Analytics, Natural Hazards, and Climate

Dr. Marzieh Mirhoseini — ML-Physics approaches to Model Reduction and Uncertainty Quantification

Dr. Samiya Alkhairy, Estimation & Control, Analytic Methods.

Graduate Students


Lubna AlBarghouty (Course XII), Nuclear Explosion Monitoring and Informative Inference

Goran Zivanovic (Course VI), Exoplanet Detection and Machine Learning

Jae Deok Kim (Course XII, MIT-WHOI Joint Program), Electromagnetic Geophysics, Geothermal Energy and Machine Learning

Ken Yan

Kenneth Gee

Samson Mercier

Undergraduate Students


Thelonious (Theo) Cooper (Course VI), Embedded Systems for Autonomy, Music Recognition

Ziwei (Grace) Jiang (Course VI), Image Recognition Architectures, Distributed Image Recognition

Tyrin-Ian Todd (Course VI) — Informative Learning for Mapping

​High-School Students


Administrative Staff

  • Jaga Purevsuren, Senior Financial Assistant
  • Alma Pellecer, Administrative Assistant

Collaborators

  • Andreas Prein, NCAR
  • Delaine Reiter, Applied Research Associates
  • Dagoberto Pulido IPN, Mexico
  • Dennis Bernstein, Adaptive Control, University of Michigan
  • Auroop Ganguly, Machine Learning and Sustainability, NEU
  • Sara Seager, Machine Learning and Exoplanets, MIT
  • Dirk Smit, Machine Learning and Super-resolution, Shell
  • Brent Minchew, Glacier/Ice Observation
  • Paul O Gorman, Atmospheric Dynamics, and Learning
  • Kerry Emanuel, Hurricane Risk
  • John Marshall, Ocean Modeling and Fluid Laboratory
  • Tom Reynolds and Fulvio Fabrizi, Machine Learning and Long-Range Forecasting, Lincoln Laboratory
  • Balu Nadiga, Dynamics and Machine Learning, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Ziwei Li  — Predictability and Learning

Phd Committee

  • Ammar Alali (EAPS)
  • Aarti Dwivedi (EAPS)
  • Shiqing Liu (CEE)
  • Rachel Price (Aero-Astro)
  • Lubna AlBarghouty — Research Advisee
  • Goran Zivanovic (EECS) — Research Advise
  • Gregory Ely (EAPS) 
  • Zhuchang Zhan (EAPS)
  • Elizabeth Basha (EECS)
  • Nishant Yadav (Northeastern U)

Alum

  1. Prof. Joaquin Salas — Computer Vision and Sustainability.
  2. Madeline Loui (Course XVI/VI) Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Inundation Mapping
  3. Adebekun, Fiyifolu O.;  Learning Dynamics from Data
  4. Ali, Salem J.
  5. Diego Luca Gonzalez Gauss, Machine Learning and Extreme Floods
  6. Amro Alshareef, Barrier Films, Medical Devices, Unmanned Aircraft Systems
  7. Vivian Ngyuen, Image Recognition for Animal Biometrics and Conservation
  8. Bowman, Scott G.
  9. Tasmeem Reza (Course XVIII-C), Analytic Methods for Estimation and Control
  10. Chen, Ashley
  11. Chew, Juliana L. — Flood Detection
  12. Clarke, Shanelle G.
  13. Cooper, Thelonious A.
  14. Edison, Jacob C.– Hybrid Engine Design
  15. Feldman, Rose G.
  16. Gomez-Paz, Paco J.
  17. Horne, Kyra
  18. Ismail, Elyud S.
  19. Jamee, Mehrab S.
  20. Jiang, Ziwei
  21. Margolis, Gabriel B.– Bayesian Deep Learning; MIT
  22. Marks, Boaz J.– Tiltrotor Dynamics and Control
  23. Mloduchowski, Tomasz B.
  24. Mohamed, Amy I.
  25. Mohammed Salim, Abdulazeez O.
  26. Reilly, Sonia M.
  27. Reza, Tasmeem
  28. Suarez, David R.
  29. Sun, Tingxiao
  30. Thakur, Nandini S.
  31. Tian, Grace Y.; (Course XVIII),  Analytic Methods for Estimation and Control
  32. Trivedi, Mihir
  33. Wheatley, Caitlin K.
  34. Wolfenberger, Katelyn M.; Mechanical Engineering, Research Associate
  35. Xu, Iris
  36. Yamaguchi, Erina
  37. Yang, Christopher M.
  38. Yang, Emily P.
  39. Aarti Dwivedi– Full Waveform Inversion and Machine Learning
  40. Nishant Yadav (NEU, CEE)
  41. Zhuchang Zhan (EAPS)
  42. Dongjoon Lee, Research Assistant  — Hybird UAS Design, Dynamics 
  43. Abdelazeez Salim, Research Assistant — Adaptive Control
  44. Ammar Alali, Research Assistant  — Energy Systems and Learning
  45. Elizabeth Basha, EECS => University of the Pacific
  46. Kshitij Bakliwal, Purdue University
  47. Timothy Langlois, Lincoln Laboratory, Cornell, Adobe
  48. Clea Denamiel, Post-Doctoral Research Associate
  49. Sara Davila, Research Intern — Climate Risk
  50. Emily Pitts, EECS
  51. Joshua Runge, EECS
  52. Fernando Shao, Mathematics=> Stanford, Oxford
  53. John Williams, EAPS
  54. Jeff Castillo, Aero Astro, Research Associate
  55. James Duyck, Math and Computer Science (Research Associate) => CMU => Google
  56. Chelsea Finn, EECS (Research Associate)=> Berkeley=> Google=>Stanford
  57. Alex Grossman, Research Assistant  — Learning Long-Range Weather Prediction and Causal Discovery
  58. Elyud Ismail, Mechanical Engineering, Research Associate
  59. Samiya Al Khairy, Postdoctoral Researcher — Information Theoretic Inference
  60. Amira Malik, Research Assistant  — Stratoro Dynamics and Control
  61. Joshua Mitteldorf, Visiting Scientist
  62. Meghana Ranganathan, Graduate Advisee
  63. Nick Roberts, Aero Astro, Research Associate
  64. Christoph Schultheiss, Research Assistant => ETH
  65. Yuvraj Sehgal, Pilot 
  66. Hans Seybold, Post-Doctoral Research Associate => ETH
  67. Piyush Tagade, Post-Doctoral Research Associate => Samsung India
  68. Navi Tansaraviput, Researh Assistant
  69. Margaret Trautner, Research Assistant  — Neural System Dynamics and Optimization; Caltech
  70. Mihir Trivedi, Research Assistant  — SkyCandy Ensemble Control 
  71. Randy Westlund, Systems Engineer

Thanks

The people who directly or indirectly have influenced the development of ESSG

  • Prof. Maria Zuber, VP of Research
  • Prof. Rob van der Hilst, Chair of the Department
  • Prof. Kerry Emanuel, Atmospheric Dynamics
  • Prof. John Marshall, Oceanography
  • Prof. Jon How, Aero-Astro
  • Prof. Dennis McLaughlin, Hydrology
  • Prof. Youssef Marzouk, Director, Center for Computational Engineering
  • Prof. Laurent Demanet, Director, Earth Resources Laboratory
  • Prof. Bill Freeman, Computer Vision
  • Prof. Alan Willsky, Stochastic Systems
  • Prof. Allen Hanson, Computer Vision 
  • Prof. Bruce Croft, Information Retrieval
  • Prof. Rod Grupen, Robotics
  • Prof. M J S Rangachar, Electrical and Communication Engineering

Acknowledgment


ESSG is funded in part by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Climate Grand Challenges program, Liberty Mutual, Office of Naval Research (ONR), the AFOSR Data-Driven Dynamic Application Systems (DDDAS) Program, the National Science Foundation (NSF), Lincoln Laboratory, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division (NUWC), the Seaver Intitute, MIT’s MISTI and ESI programs.