People

Researchers


Sahara Ali

Sahara Ali
UNT

Andy Aschwanden

Andy Aschwanden
Uni. of Alaska Fairbanks, Glaciers Group


Karen ChenKaren Chen
UMBC

Don Engel

Don Engel
UMBC

Maria Esteva

Maria Esteva
Texas Advanced Computing Center


Mark Fahnestock

Mark Fahnestock
Uni. of Alaska Fairbanks, Glaciers Group

Lydia FletcherLydia Fletcher
Texas Advanced Computing Center

Nicholas HolschuhNicholas Holschuh
Amherst College

Yiyi HuangYiyi Huang
NASA Langley/Science Systems and Applications, Inc

Vandana Janeja

Vandana Janeja | Director & PI
UMBC


Ratnaksha Lele

Ratnaksha Lele

UMBC

Sikan Li
TACC

Mike MacFerrin

Mike MacFerrin
Uni. of Colorado Boulder


Mohamed MokbelMohamed Mokbel
University of Minnesota

Mathieu MorlighemMathieu Morlighem | Co-Director & Co-PI
Dartmouth

Josephine Namayanja

Josephine Namayanja | Executive Director
 UMBC



Shashi Shekhar

Shashi Shekhar | Co-PI
University of Minnesota

Aneesh SubramanianAneesh Subramanian | Co-PI
Uni. of Colorado Boulder


Jianwu WangJianwu Wang | Co-PI
UMBC

 

 

 


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Research Assistants



Subhankar Ghosh

Subhankar Ghosh | University of Minnesota

Shanmukhi Gunda

Shanmukhi Gunda | UMBC

Nidhin Harilal

Nidhin Harilal | Uni. of Colorado Boulder


Emam Hossain

Emam Hossain | UMBC

Yuchuan Huang

Yuchuan Huang | University of Minnesota


Mansa Krishna

Mansa Krishna | Dartmouth

Francis Nji

Francis Nji |UMBC


Rohan Putatunda

Rohan Putatunda  | UMBC

Akila Sampath

Akila Sampath | UMBC



 

Ana Uribe | UMN

Donglai Yang

Donglai Yang | Georgia Institute of Technology

Polar Informatics Graduate Fellow

Ziqi Yin

Ziqi Yin | Uni. of Colorado Boulder


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Staff


Nikki Monczewski

Nikki Monczewski | UMBC
Communications and Operations Coordinator

Achala Denagamage

Achala Denagamage | UMBC
Academic Program Specialist

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Collaborators

Edward Boyda

Edward Boyda | Earth Genome

Kim Young

Kim Young | Weston High School


Anita Komlodi

Anita Komlodi | UMBC

 

Lisa Moren | UMBC

 

Ryan Zuber | UMBC


 

Eric Stokan | UMBC

 

 



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Fellows and Synergy Incentive Program (SIP)


Zhibo Zhang

Zhibo Zhang | UMBC

Lora Harris | UMCES

Chhaya Kulkarni | TU


Maria Janeth Molina | UMD


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External Advisory Board (EAB)


Rachel Brennan

Rachel Brennan

Liping Di

Christine Kirkpatrick

Christine Kirkpatrick


Hai "Helen" Li

Hai “Helen” Li

Anna Liljedahl

Sophie Nowicki

Sophie Nowicki


Beth Plale

Beth Plale | EAB Chair

Lavanya Ramakrishnana

Lavanya Ramakrishnana

James Temte

James Temte


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Past Members


Preety Dagar

Preety Dagar

Visiting Scholar

PhD Scholar at Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI), New Delhi

Visiting Dates: February 6, 2023 – March 20, 2023

Dr. Tolulope AleDr. Tolulope Ale | UMBC
Gradate Research Assistant

Graduated December 2025

Tobi Williams

Tobi Williams | UMBC

Student worker & Data Scholar

Dr. Chhaya Kulkarni

Dr. Chhaya Kulkarni | UMBC

Graduate Research Assistant Graduated May 2025


Lee Boot

Lee Boot | UMBC

Collaborator

Dr. Yusuke Kuwayama

Dr. Yusuke Kuwayama | UMBC

Collaborator

Dr. Maloy Kumar Devnath

Dr. Maloy Kumar Devnath | UMBC
Graduate Research Assistant 
Graduated December 2025

Dr. Gong Cheng

Dr. Gong Cheng
Dartmouth Senior Researcher


Dr. Alison Banwell

Dr. Alison Banwell | CUB

Senior iHARP reseacher

Suruthi Selvam

Suruthi Selvam | UNT 

Graduate student

Maruthi Prasanna Chellatore

Maruthi Prasanna Chellatore | UNT

Graduate Student

Rishitha Reddy Pesaladinne

Rishitha Reddy Pesaladinne | UNT

Graduate Student


Taylor Goad

Taylor Goad | UMBC

Collaborator

Christopher Shuman

Christopher Shuman | UMBC

Jeaime Powell

Jeaime Powell | TACC Senior Researcher

Denis Felikson

Denis Felikson | Morgan State University Senior Researcher


 

Jan Lenaerts | CUB
Senior Researcher/ Former Co-PI

Rajashree (Tri) Datta

Rajashree (Tri) Datta | CUB Senior Researcher

Fay Cobb Payton

Fay Cobb Payton | External Adivisory Board

Naomi Tack

Naomi Tack | Graduate Assistant UMBC

Graduated


Claire Jensen

Claire Jensen

Graduated