People

 

Researchers | Research Assistants | Staff | Collaborators

Fellows | External Advisory Board | Past Members

 

Researchers

Sahara Ali
UNT

Andy Aschwanden
Uni. of Alaska Fairbanks, Glaciers Group

Sudip Chakraborty
UMBC

Karen Chen
UMBC  

Don Engel
UMBC

Maria Esteva
Texas Advanced Computing Center

Mark Fahnestock
Uni. of Alaska Fairbanks, Glaciers Group

Lydia Fletcher
Texas Advanced Computing Center


Md Osman Gani
UMBC

Nicholas Holschuh
Amherst College

Yiyi Huang
NASA Langley/Science Systems and Applications, Inc

Vandana Janeja  | Director & PI
UMBC

Ratnaksha Lele

UMBC

Sikan Li
TACC

Mike MacFerrin
Uni. of Colorado Boulder

Mohamed Mokbel
University of Minnesota

Mathieu Morlighem | Co-Director & Co-PI
Dartmouth

Josephine Namayanja | Executive Director
 UMBC

Sanjay Purushotham
UMBC

Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel
JPL

Sharad Sharma
UNT

Shashi Shekhar | Co-PI
University of Minnesota

Aneesh Subramanian | Co-PI
Uni. of Colorado Boulder

Bayu Adhi Tama
UMBC

Jianwu Wang | Co-PI
UMBC

Rebecca Williams
UMBC  

 

 

 

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Research Assistants

Sai Vikas Amaraneni | UMBC

Mostafa Cham | UMBC

Omar Faruque | UMBC

Subhankar Ghosh | University of Minnesota

Shanmukhi Gunda | UMBC

Nidhin Harilal | Uni. of Colorado Boulder

Muhammad Behroze Hassan | UMBC

Emam Hossain| UMBC

Yuchuan Huang | University of Minnesota

Mansa Krishna | Dartmouth

Rhoda Nankabirwa |UMBC

Francis Nji |UMBC

Olivia Patterson | UMBC

Rohan Putatunda  | UMBC

Akila Sampath | UMBC

 

Ana Uribe | UMN

Donglai Yang | Georgia Institute of Technology

Polar Informatics Graduate Fellow

Ziqi Yin | Uni. of Colorado Boulder

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Staff

Nikki Monczewski | UMBC
Communications and Operations Coordinator

Achala Denagamage | UMBC
Academic Program Specialist

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Collaborators

Donna Ruginski | UMBC

Edward Boyda | Earth Genome

Kim Young | Weston High School

Anita Komlodi | UMBC

 

Lisa Moren | UMBC

 

Ryan Zuber | UMBC

 

Eric Stokan | UMBC

 

 

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Fellows and Synergy Incentive Program (SIP)

Zhibo Zhang | UMBC

Lora Harris | UMCES

Chhaya Kulkarni | TU

Maria Janeth Molina | UMD

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External Advisory Board (EAB)

Rachel Brennan

Liping Di

Christine Kirkpatrick

Hai “Helen” Li

Anna Liljedahl

Sophie Nowicki

Beth Plale | EAB Chair

Lavanya Ramakrishnana

James Temte

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Past Members

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 Ale | UMBC
Gradate Research Assistant

Graduated December 2025

Tobi Williams | UMBC

Student worker & Data Scholar

Dr. Chhaya Kulkarni | UMBC

Graduate Research Assistant Graduated May 2025

Lee Boot | UMBC

Collaborator

Dr. Yusuke Kuwayama | UMBC

Collaborator

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

Dr. Gong Cheng
Dartmouth Senior Researcher

Dr. Alison Banwell | CUB

Senior iHARP reseacher

Suruthi Selvam | UNT 

Graduate student

Maruthi Prasanna Chellatore | UNT

Graduate Student

Rishitha Reddy Pesaladinne | UNT

Graduate Student

Taylor Goad | UMBC

Collaborator

Christopher Shuman | UMBC

Jeaime Powell | TACC Senior Researcher

Denis Felikson | Morgan State University Senior Researcher

 

Jan Lenaerts | CUB
Senior Researcher/ Former Co-PI

Rajashree (Tri) Datta | CUB Senior Researcher

Fay Cobb Payton | External Adivisory Board

Naomi Tack | Graduate Assistant UMBC

Graduated

Claire Jensen

Graduated