Season 3 – Episode 2: Dr. Amy McGovern

Our next episode of All Thinks Considered features our friend, Dr. Amy McGovern.

Dr. McGovern is the Director and PI for the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography. Changes in weather patterns, oceans, sea level rise, and disaster risk amplify the need for accelerated AI research in the environmental sciences. AI2ES is a convergent, multi-sector NSF Trustworthy AI institute led by the University of Oklahoma that brings together researchers in AI, atmospheric science, ocean science, and risk communication to create novel trustworthy AI techniques that improve our ability to understand, predict, and communicate high-impact weather.

Dr. McGovern’s Education:

>>Ph.D. in Computer Science (May 2002), University of Massachusetts Amherst.

>>M.S. in Computer Science (1998), University of Massachusetts Amherst

>>B.S. (Honors) in Math and Computer Science (minor: Spanish, 1996), Carnegie Mellon University