We’re celebrating NASA’s Parker solar probe entering the record books to become the fastest human made object of all time!!

AI is no-longer an academic curiosity. We’re now in the era where this transformative new tool is now making substantive contributions to both space exploration and how we protect our planet.

However, the shift from a cool demo to something we can trust requires a new level of rigor and engineering excellence.

Date: Wednesday, 16 May
Time: 12 Noon New York, 5.00 pm London, 9.00 am San Francisco
Where: trillium.tech/wormholelive

Anna works on machine learning applications for earth observation and climate research. Before her postdoc, she obtained her PhD in Physics at the University of Oxford, researching renewable energies.

Throughout her PhD, Anna developed an interest in machine learning for scientific applications, which led her to joining the Frontier Development Lab as a researcher in 2019.

She returned to the program as a faculty member, and helps lead various heliophysics and earth observation projects. She is passionate about increasing diversity in STEM and helping to empower the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists.

Tom has recently became one of the first Principal Investigators in NASA’s new Space Weather Centers of Excellence program, working with NASA, NOAA, and university partners to develop the next generation of orbital space weather forecasting models. He came to space weather research via a lifelong love of astronomy and solar physics, graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in Engineering Physics followed by a Ph.D. in Applied Physics/Astrophysics from Stanford University. Tom also founded the Space Weather Deep Learning Laboratory, the first university facility to focus on AI/ML applications to space weather prediction.He’s been a faculty member of FDL since 2021, working with teams of FDL researchers to develop advanced models for prediction of the Low Earth Orbit environment, a critical region of space that is particularly vulnerable to extreme geomagnetic storms triggered by solar eruptions.

For the past two decades, Lika has enabled the development of Heliophysics as an integrated scientific discipline from which fundamental discoveries about our universe provide direct societal benefits.

As the Lead for the Living With a Star (LWS) program for 16 years since its initiation in 2000 she made possible the flagship missions (e.g. the Solar Dynamics Observatory, Van Allen Probes, Solar Orbiter Collaboration with European Space Agency and Parker Solar Probe), many other missions, including STEREO that would revolutionize our understanding of how the Sun shapes space weather in the solar system.

She has been awarded numerous national and international awards, including the Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate, “India’s Most Powerful Women” award by Business Today, India, and the American Geophysical Union Ambassador Award.

Lika has championed the growth of FDL since 2017 and remains an indispensable voice in defining challenge areas and the approaches to solving them.