Pedram Hassanzadeh

Professor at UChicago: Climate physics, AI+science, extreme weather & turbulence

Chicago, Illinois, United States

About

Associate Professor at The University of Chicago and Director of the AI for Climate (AICE) Initiative at the Data Science Institute (https://datascience.uchicago.edu/research/aice-ai-for-climate/). Geophysical Sciences + Computational and Applied Math + Data Science Institute. PI of the Climate Extreme Theory and Data (CeTD) Group. Working at the intersection of extreme weather, scientific machine learning, climate change, and turbulence, using theory, AI, observations, and computer modeling to understand and predict changes in future extreme weather events in a warming world. https://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/pedram-hassanzadeh/

Experience

  • Associate Professor at University of Chicago
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Department of Geophysical Sciences, AI for Climate (AICE) Initiative, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Data Science Institute

  • Rice University (7 yrs 7 mos)
    • Associate Professor
      Jul 2023 - Jan 2024 · 7 mos

    • Assistant Professor
      Jul 2016 - Jun 2023 · 7 yrs

      PI: The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group

  • Ziff Environmental Fellow at Harvard University
    Sep 2013 - Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Graduate Student Researcher at UC Berkeley
    Aug 2008 - May 2013 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    Jun 2012 - Aug 2012 · 3 mos