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Abigail Azari is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Physics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. She holds a PhD in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded several prestigious fellowships including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the NASA Earth Space Science Fellowship. Her research interests focus on applying machine intelligence to scientific discovery in space science and exploration, particularly concerning planetary science and space physics. She works on addressing significant challenges in uncertainty quantification through the inclusion of physical information in models. Azari has held post-doctoral positions at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Lab and the University of British Columbia, where she was involved in data science research. She has also contributed to science policy as a Fellow at the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute. Azari's teaching includes courses on upper atmosphere space physics, where she covers fundamental plasma phenomena and their interaction with terrestrial systems.
University of Alberta • Edmonton, AB, Canada
Jointly appointed in the Departments of Physics and Electrical & Computer Engineering.
University of British Columbia • Vancouver, BC, Canada
Research and data science focus.
UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Lab • Berkeley, CA, USA
Research on space sciences.
IDA Science Technology Policy Institute • Washington, D.C., USA
Contributed to science policy initiatives.
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management