EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE & STAFF
Executive Committee
Pierre Gentine
Director, LEAP; Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Departments of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
Tian Zheng
Deputy Director, Chief Convergence Officer & Education Director, LEAP; Professor of Statistics, Columbia University; Affiliate Member of the Data Science Institute
Molly Lopez
Managing Director
Viviana Acquaviva
Institutional Integration Director, LEAP; Professor of Physics, CUNY NYC College of Technology and CUNY Graduate Center
Reginald Blake
Research Translation Director, LEAP; Associate Provost and Dean of Curriculum and Research at New York City College of Technology; Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center; Co-Director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Earth System Sciences
Vanessa Burbano
Corporate Engagement Director, LEAP; Donald C. Waite III Associate Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, Columbia University
Courtney D. Cogburn
Chief Broadening Participation Officer & Knowledge Transfer Director, LEAP; Associate Professor of Social Work at Columbia University; Affiliate Member of the Data Science Institute
Gregory Elsaesser
Geoscience Director, LEAP; Research Scientist, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University / NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Kara Lamb
AI + Compute Director; Associate Research Scientist, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
David Lawrence
NCAR Model Development Liaison, LEAP; CESM Chief Scientist, NCAR
Robert Pincus
Data Director, LEAP; Research Professor, Ocean + Climate Physics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO); Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics + Applied Physics, Columbia University
Rose Yu
Data Science Director, LEAP; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego
Research Staff
pending
Staff Associate: Data + Computing
Sarika de Bruyn
Manager of Data + Computing
Isabella Lu
Data + Computing Intern
Administrative Staff
Catherine Cha
Assistant Director of Communications + Knowledge Transfer
Nicole Kam
Climate Data Science Education + Outreach Intern
Robert Carnival
Coordinator of Finance and Operations
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