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Negin Sobhani

Negin Sobhani, Ph.D.

Machine Learning for Weather, Air Quality & Climate Modeling 🌎 | Geospatial AI/ML & Data Science | Bridging HPC, AI/ML, Weather & Climate Modeling at NSF-NCAR


About me

I'm a computational scientist at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF-NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. My work lives at the intersection of atmospheric science, HPC, and AI/ML.

Currently serving as the Technical Lead of the NSF-NCAR Community AI Ecosystem initiative, I coordinate eight labs and 50+ stakeholders to build unified geospatial AI/ML infrastructure for Earth system science.

My background spans numerical weather prediction, distributed GPU training, performance optimization on HPC/Cloud architectures, and building scalable data workflows for large geospatial datasets. I'm passionate about open science and fostering community-driven computational geoscience.

I'm an active open-source contributor and technical leader in the Pangeo ecosystem, serving as a core contributor to Xarray, CuPy-Xarray, and Pythia. I enjoy teaching and have delivered tutorials at SciPy, ESDS, and NCAR on topics ranging from scalable geospatial data analysis to distributed AI/ML workflows.

I hold a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Iowa, where my research focused on atmospheric chemistry modeling, performance analysis, and optimization of weather and air quality models.


Interests

Scientific Machine Learning HPC & GPU Computing Distributed Training Weather & Climate Modeling Scalable Geospatial Data Open-Source Scientific Software Performance Optimization Pangeo Ecosystem