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Panelist FICO XPRESS Innovation Day San Francisco, CA
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models Poster at ICLR
The Water Table Model (WTM) (v2.0.1): coupled groundwater and dynamic lake modelling Published at Geoscientific Model Development
Outstanding Paper Finalist (BIG-bench) TLMR None
Featured Paper (BIG-bench) TLMR None
Presentation AGU Fall Meeting Washington, DC
Invited Workshop CSDMS Annual Meeting Montclair, NJ
Apportioning sources and estimating fluxes of contaminants along a tributary of the Thames river with an inverse modelling strategy Accepted at Science of the Total Environment
Using convex optimization to efficiently apportion tracer and pollutant sources from point concentration observations Accepted at Water Resources Research
Invited Talk Seminar Imperial College London
Apportioning sources and estimating fluxes of contaminants along a tributary of the Thames river with an inverse modelling strategy Preprint at EarthArXiv
Invited Talk TBD Oxford, UK
Using convex optimization to efficiently apportion tracer and pollutant sources from point concentration observations Preprint at EarthArXiv
Panelist CSDMS Annual Meeting Boulder, CO
Invited Workshop CSDMS Annual Meeting Boulder, CO
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models Accepted at TLMR
Invited Talk CMU Engineering and Policy Seminar Pittsburgh, PN
Invited Talk UN Economic Commission for Europe Global Forum for Geography and Statistics Virtual
Teacher ESA Short Course on Mathematical Programming in Ecology Virtual
Mentor MIT Summer Geometry Initiative Virtual
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models Preprint at arXiv
Advances in hexagon mesh-based flow direction modeling Published at Advances in Water Resources
Panelist Workshop on the Science of Scientific-Software Development and Use Virtual
Using big data to study and improve scientific software Preprint at Workshop on the Science of Scientific-Software Development and Use
Ten simple rules on writing clean and reliable open-source scientific software Published at PLOS Computational Biology
Finding Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility Published at Polar Record
Coupled groundwater and dynamic lake modelling using the Water Table Model (WTM) Preprint at Water Resources Research
Invited Talk Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley, CA
Invited Talk CMU Electrical and Computer Engineering Pittsburgh, PN
Invited Talk Flatiron Institute New York, NY
Gerrymandering and Compactness: Implementation Flexibility and Abuse First View at Political Analysis
Fill-Spill-Merge: Flow routing in depression hierarchies Accepted at Earth Surface Dynamics
2nd Place SC20 ACM Research Competition Global

PhD Computational Science
UC Berkeley

MS Computer Science
UC Berkeley
BusTr: predicting bus travel times from real-time traffic Published at ACM SIGKDD 2020
Invited Lecturer OpenGeoHub Summer School Wageningen, Netherlands
Finding hierarchies in depressions and morphological segmentations Published at Earth Surface Dynamics
BusTr: Predicting Bus Travel Times from Real-Time Traffic Preprint at arXiv
Depression Hierarchies Published at Earth Surface Dynamics
Fill-Spill-Merge: Flow routing in depression hierarchies Preprint at Earth Surface Dynamics
Gerrymandering and Compactness: Implementation Flexibility and Abuse Accepted at Political Analysis
Fill-Spill-Merge Preprint at Earth Surface Dynamics
Invited Talk Santa Fe Institute Santa Fe, NM
Outstanding Presentation Award AGU None
Cryosphere Innovation Award AGU None
Invited Talk U. Minnesota Department of Geography, Environment, and Society. Minneapolis, MN
Rescal-snow: Simulating snow dunes Published at Journal of Open Source Software
Finding hierarchies in depressions and morphological segmentations Preprint at Earth Surface Dynamics
Depression Hierarchies Preprint at Earth Surface Dynamics
Best Practices for Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in Data Science: Report from the BIDS Best Practices in Data Science Series Preprint at SocArXiv
Optimal orientations of discrete global grids and the Poles of Inaccessibility Published at Intn'l J. of Digital Earth
Accelerating a fluvial incision and landscape evolution model with parallelism Published at Geomorphology
Keynote Speaker JRC Workshop on Benchmarking Global Digital Elevation Models Ispra, Italy
1st Prize MCED Award for Innovative Contributions to Ecological Modelling Global
Presenter Geomorphometry 2018 Boulder, CO
Best Student Paper Geomorphometry 2018 Boulder, CO
Fellow Berkeley Institute for Data Science Berkeley, CA
Participant Second Workshop on Conceptualizing a Geospatial Software Institute Chicago, IL
Software Carpentry Instructor Berkeley Institute for Data Science Berkeley, CA
Mentor CU Boulder GPU Hackathon Boulder, CO
Accelerating a fluvial incision and landscape evolution model with parallelism Preprint at arXiv
Gerrymandering and Compactness: Implementation Flexibility and Abuse Preprint at arXiv
Invited Talk Pacific Northwest National Lab’s “Computing at PNNL” Seminar Richland, WA
Mentor BNL KNL Hackathon Upton, NY
Mentor ORNL OpenACC Hackathon Knoxville, TN
Invited Talk LBNL Terrestrial Biogeochemistry Group Berkeley, CA
Presenter FOSS4G Boston, MA
65 Million Years of Change in Temperature and Topography Explain Evolutionary History in Eastern North American Plethodontid Salamanders Published at American Naturalist
Parallel Non-divergent Flow Accumulation For Trillion Cell Digital Elevation Models On Desktops Or Clusters Published at Environmental Modelling and Software
Most Innovative Project TOM Berkeley Makeathon Berkeley, CA
Parallel Non-divergent Flow Accumulation For Trillion Cell Digital Elevation Models On Desktops Or Clusters In-press at Environmental Modelling and Software
65 Million Years of Change in Temperature and Topography Explain Evolutionary History in Eastern North American Plethodontid Salamanders In-press at American Naturalist
Parallel Non-divergent Flow Accumulation For Trillion Cell Digital Elevation Models On Desktops Or Clusters Preprint at arXiv
Parallel Priority-Flood Depression Filling For Trillion Cell Digital Elevation Models On Desktops Or Clusters In-press at Computers & Geosciences
A Pipeline Strategy For Crop Domestication Published at Crop Science

MS Evolutionary Ecology
U Minnesota
Virtual Division Winner NASA Space Apps Challenge Global
Fellow DoE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship USA
Invited Speaker New Roots For Ecological Intensification Conference Estes Park, CO
MyFutureClimate featured in Tech.MN
The Reflective Plant Breeding Paradigm: A Robust System of Germplasm Development to Support Strategic Diversification of Agroecosystems Published at Crop Science
Invited Speaker Twin Cities Climate Hack Minneapolis, MN
Invited Speaker Twin Cities Climate Hack Minneapolis, MN
First Place Hack4Good Global Climate Challenge Global
3rd Place High Tech Division (for OMG Transit) Minnesota Cup Minneapolis, MN
Finalist Knight Green Line Challenge St. Paul, MN
Best Use of Public Data National Day of Civic Hacking Minneapolis, MN
Code for Good Prize National Day of Civic Hacking Seattle, WA
Presenter Data Services Accelerator Demo Day Santa Clara, CA
Fellow NSF Graduate Research Fellowship USA
Winner Beta.MN Start-Up Competition Minneapolis, MN
Selected for the Intel Labs' Innovation Pipeline Portland, OR
Invited Speaker Seminar St. Paul, MN
Ignite Presenter ESA 2013 Minneapolis, MN
Presenter ESA 2013 Minneapolis, MN
Panelist House of Genius Minneapolis, MN
Presenter MinneDemo Minneapolis, MN
Invitee Champions of Change The White House
ESRI Innovation Award National Day of Civic Hacking Minneapolis, MN
An efficient assignment of drainage direction over flat surfaces in raster digital elevation models Published at Computers & Geosciences
Priority-flood: An optimal depression-filling and watershed-labeling algorithm for digital elevation models Published at Computers & Geosciences
Glacial sensors featured in BBC