Travis O'brien
Associate Professor
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolTravis O'Brien is an atmospheric physicist and climate model developer with 12 years of research and academic experience, now an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington and Visiting Faculty at Berkeley Lab. He has authored or co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles on extreme weather and climate change and led an internationally recognized program on climate and atmospheric processes. Travis combines hands-on model development—creating novel analytic and computational methods for clouds, rainfall, and probability distributions—with teaching and mentoring dozens of graduate and undergraduate students using universal-design and active-learning approaches. He also brings substantive service experience, from media engagement on impactful weather to elected faculty governance. Trained in physics and geosciences (PhD, UC Santa Cruz), he blends rigorous quantitative skills, practical software development for atmospheric models, and collaborative leadership across national lab and university settings.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
1st Dan Tae Kwon Do, 1st Dan Tae Kwon Do at Song's Martial Art InstituteUniversity of California Santa CruzEl Dorado High School
French
Github Skills (34)
pandas9
algorithms9
python9
fortran9
dask9
snl-applications9
netcdf9
earth-science9
numpy8
weather7
climate-science7
exascale7
documentation-generator6
climate-model6
multidimensional-arrays5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
IU-Atmospheric-Sciences-Group/climate_conda_environment
Jun 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 10 months
LBL-EESA/fastkde
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
Contributions:20 releases, 3 reviews, 123 commits in 9 years
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