Summary
Adrienne Hoarfrost is an environmental microbiologist, oceanographer, and deep learning scientist who combines 11 years of academic and applied experience to develop ML and deep learning tools for high-dimensional, low-sample-size biological problems across marine, Earth, and space sciences. As an Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia and former NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, she leads interdisciplinary work at the intersection of microbial dark matter, ocean carbon cycling, and AI-driven modeling. She co-founded Fathom Carbon to translate science into scalable, transparent ocean carbon removal solutions and has built open-source modeling platforms for GeneLab and CRISP to enable AI for long-duration spaceflight. Adrienne’s strength is pairing field, experimental, and computational expertise to communicate across disciplines and craft practical, principled solutions to climate and astrobiology challenges. Unusually, her work spans from shipboard enzyme assays to self-supervised models that seek a “universal language of life,” reflecting a rare blend of hands-on ecology and cutting-edge machine learning.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology - Geobiology, Bachelor's degree, Biology - Geobiology at Dartmouth College
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Marine Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Marine Sciences at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill