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Mar 15, 2026 Our Applied Optics paper on leveraging deep-learning foundation models for optical turbulence ($C_n^2$) estimation under data scarcity was selected as an Editor’s Pick.
Mar 06, 2026 Gave an invited seminar, “AI/ML-driven modeling of atmospheric turbulence for weather, energy, and defense applications,” at Johns Hopkins University.
Nov 19, 2025 Invited seminar at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on AI/ML-driven modeling of atmospheric turbulence.
Sep 01, 2025 With D. Roy Sarkar, L. Manuel, and S. Goswami (JHU / UT-Austin), our team ranked 5th of 40 in the NASA & DNV UQ Challenge on optimization under uncertainty.
Jun 01, 2025 Max Pierzyna won the Best Student Poster Award at the AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence.
May 01, 2025 Bowen Li successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, Dunkelflaute events — characterization, prediction and future projection (TU Delft).
Apr 08, 2025 Released JAX-ALFA (Atmospheric LES For All) — a JAX-based large-eddy simulation framework for atmospheric boundary-layer flows, with documentation.
Oct 01, 2024 Max Pierzyna won the Best Student Paper Award at the Optica Imaging Congress.
Sep 01, 2024 New award: Assessing climate exposure and financial impacts at the census-tract level in New York State — NYS Department of Financial Services ($1.6M, PI).
Aug 01, 2023 Max Pierzyna won the Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Remote Sensing.
Apr 01, 2023 Joined the University at Albany (SUNY) as Professor of Empire Innovation in the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and the Department of Environmental & Sustainable Engineering.