Dr. Abigail Azari

Biography

Abigail Azari is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, jointly appointed in the Departments of Physics and Electrical & Computer Engineering. She holds the CIFAR AI Chair and is a research fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. Azari's research focuses on leveraging machine intelligence for scientific discovery in space science and exploration, particularly in planetary science and space physics. Her work aims to address challenges in uncertainty quantification and the integration of physical information into machine learning models. She completed her PhD in Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science from the University of Michigan in 2020, during which she was the recipient of several prestigious fellowships, including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the NASA Earth Space Science Fellowship. Prior to her current position, Azari was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory and has also held research positions at notable institutions such as the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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