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Sydney Jenkins
Undergraduate, The University of Chicago
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
I helped develop a machine learning algorithm for identifying different cloud classes based on satellite images. We hope to use our model to better understand trends in cloud cover, which plays a critical role in climate change.
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.”