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| I studied computer vision and robotics at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and wrote a doctoral
dissertation on multiscale representations of images. As a graduate
student, I became interested earth’s sustainability and
therefore joined the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at
MIT as a post-doc to research state estimation for dynamical systems.
I continue at MIT as a research scientist (2004 - present),
conducting research in earth systems and computational vision. My enduring research
interest is to design and use methods that can answer queries about
the behavior of stochastic spatio-temporal processes. To do so, I
broadly study estimation, control, decision and information theories.
Currently, I focus on earth systems estimation, specifically
to design algorithms that overcome the problems of
nonlinearity, dimensionality and uncertainty that is
characteristic of earth problems and a real barrier to effective
predictability. You can read about specific research topics on this subject and others here.
Some of my research has made it out of academia,
specifically to a company (WindRisk Tech) I co-founded
in 2005. I served as a board member for Sustainable-step New England (2000-2002).
I remain active in the environmental community, and present the (my)
latest understanding of Climate and
Sustainability to communities throughout New England.
I love to fly (airplanes),
play the flute, and garden. I hail from New Delhi and I am married to
Julie Marquardt from Connecticut. |
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