Ruby Werman

Project: Is Climate Change Changing Clouds?

Mentors/Lab: Ian Foster, Michael Maire, Elisabeth Moyer, Rebecca Willett/RDCEP

Research Area Keywords: Biology & Environment // Image Analysis // Machine Learning

We explored how deep learning can be applicable to discover new cloud features from big satellite data. To find the new cloud features, we built a data analysis pipeline where we trained a deep neural network, extracted dimension-reduced clouds information, and then passed the compressed representation to a clustering algorithm.

Project News: Two papers arose from this research, and both were accepted to the American Geophysical Union Fall 2019 meeting: “Cloud Characterization With Deep Learning II” and “Developing Unsupervised Learning Models for Cloud Classification.”