People
LEAD PERSONNEL

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

Galen McKinley
Deputy Director, LEAP; Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Affiliate Professor, Earth and Environmental Engineering

Tian Zheng
Chief Convergence Officer & Education Director, LEAP; Professor & Chair of the Department of Statistics, Columbia University; Affiliate Member of the Data Science Institute

Courtney D. Cogburn
Chief Equity Officer & Knowledge Transfer Director, LEAP; Associate Professor of Social Work at Columbia University; Affiliate Member of the Data Science Institute

Ryan Abernathey
Data & Computation Director, LEAP; Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Affiliate Member of the Data Science Institute

Laure Zanna
Geoscience Director, LEAP; Professor of Mathematics & Atmosphere/Ocean Science at the Courant Institute of NYU; Affiliate Member of the Center for Data Science at NYU

Carl Vondrick
Data Science Director, LEAP; Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University

Michael Pritchard
Institutional Integration Director, LEAP; Associate Professor of Earth Systems Science at University of California at Irvine

David Lawrence
NCAR Model Development Liaison, LEAP; Senior Scientist and Section Head at NCAR

Vanessa Burbano
Corporate Engagement Director, LEAP; Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Management at Columbia Business School, Columbia University
STAFF

Molly Lopez
Managing Director

Catherine Cha
Sr. Manager of Communications and Knowledge Transfer

Jihae Moon
Associate Director of Programs

James Lu
Manager of Finance and Operations

Julius Busecke
Manager of Data and Computing

Wayne Chuang
Integration Engineer
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