Maike Sonnewald
Assistant Professor at University of Washington
United States
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Top SchoolMaike Sonnewald is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Davis who develops AI methods that deliver actionable insights for climate, ocean, and fisheries management, blending machine learning with domain expertise in ocean and atmospheric systems. With over a decade of experience spanning MIT postdoctoral work to research roles at Princeton, NOAA, and affiliations at the University of Washington, she leads the Computational Climate and Ocean Group to translate AI innovations into trustworthy, operational tools for environmental decision-making. Her research uniquely combines physical oceanography and complex-systems PhD training with rigorous methods for AI verification and reliability in high-stakes settings. Passionate about open science, she champions open-source data science approaches to make climate-smart tools accessible to practitioners and policymakers.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Complex Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Complex Systems at University of Southampton
Github Skills (17)
opcodes8
climate-model7
python6
topological-data-analysis6
dimensionality-reduction6
climate-science5
visualization5
projection5
uniform4
machine-learning4
manifold4
oceanography4
ocean-modelling4
automatic-differentiation3
approximation3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
maikejulie/thesisPublic
Jun 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
maikejulie/publications
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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