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Last updated 2025 May
The Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in Polar Regions (iHARP) announced its first collaboration opportunity with its Researchers through fellowships or a Synergy Incentives Program (SIP) in April 2024. After an extensive review of applications and proposals, two (2) Polar Informatics Graduate Fellows, one (1) Polar Informatics Visiting Research Fellows, and one (1) SIP recipient were selected
2024 Awardees
Polar Informatics Graduate Fellows
Polar Informatics Graduate Fellow is a Graduate Student who is co-mentored by an experienced researcher from Polar Science and Data Science. The student will bring in experience from the two disciplines of data science or AI and polar science.
Polar Informatics Visiting Research Fellow
Polar Informatics Visiting Research Fellow is a Researcher who will work with iHARP researchers as a visiting researcher at an iHARP participating institution. They may also mentor graduate students and undergraduate scholars through continued partnership beyond their visit.
Dr. Zhibo Zhang (UMBC)
Project Title: Exploring ML-based cloud masking and cloud top height retrieval in polar regions using PACE HARP-2 multi-angular observations
Collaborating with Dr. Jianwu Wang
Synergy Incentives Program (SIP) Proposals
iHARP-SIP is designed to bring interdisciplinary teams working together to strengthen links to HDR ecosystem towards identifying collaboration opportunities and leveraging distinct strengths via cross-institute coordination, communication, and new research seeding.
Project Title: Causality-at-Scale for Polar Regions (CSPR)
Project Team Members: Dr. Sahara Ali, Dr. Aneesh Subramanian, Ms. Sikan Li