Abigail R. Azari
About
Abigail R. Azari’s is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii and an assistant professor jointly at the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta. Azari’s research focuses on scientifically informed machine learning for planetary science and space physics. Her work advances knowledge of the space environments surrounding planets, including Mars and Saturn. Azari regularly participates in multi-national space missions as a machine learning and domain science expert. She is broadly interested in solving shared methodological challenges within machine learning for the Earth and space sciences to enable scientific discoveries.
Awards
- Data Science Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 2023
- Outstanding Doctoral Research, University of Michigan, 2020
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, 2020
- Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation, 2016
- Earth and Space Science Fellow, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2015
Relevant Publications
- Azari, A. R., Abrahams, E., Sapienza, F., Halekas, J., Biersteker, J., Mitchell, D. L., et al. (2024). “A virtual solar wind monitor at Mars with uncertainty quantification using Gaussian processes.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation.
- Azari, A. R., Abrahams, E., Sapienza, F., Mitchell, D. L., Biersteker, J., Xu, S., et al. (2023). “Magnetic field draping in induced magnetospheres: Evidence from the MAVEN mission to Mars.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
- Azari, A., Biersteker, J. B., Dewey, R. M., Doran, G., Forsberg, E. J., Harris, C. D. K., … Ruhunusiri, S. (2021). “Integrating Machine Learning for Planetary Science: Perspectives for the Next Decade.” Bulletin of the AAS, 53(4).
- Azari, A. R., Lockhart, J. W., Liemohn, M. W., and Jia, X. (2020) "Incorporating Physics Knowledge in Machine Learning for Planetary Space Physics". Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences.
- Azari, A. R. (2020) "A Data-Driven Understanding of Plasma Transport in Saturn’s Magnetic Environment". Ph.D. Thesis. University of Michigan.