Ali Abdolali
Senior Scientist Physical Oceanographer at University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Abdolali is a Senior Scientist and Physical Oceanographer with eight years of professional experience bridging government agencies (NOAA, ERDC) and academia to advance earth system and coastal modeling. He has led development of coupled wave, surge, and tsunami models, contributing pioneering methods for tsunami early warning and acoustic gravity wave detection. Ali has authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers in top journals like Nature and Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and his work on WAVEWATCH III includes core computational enhancements such as domain decomposition and memory-tracking for large-scale production models. Based in College Park, MD, he holds a PhD in Coastal and Harbor Engineering and maintains active research affiliations with UMD and ESSIC. His track record combines hands-on code contributions to a widely used open-source wave model with operational science roles that translate advanced theory into practical hazard prediction systems. Colleagues describe him as a scientist who consistently turns complex fluid dynamics into robust, deployable modeling tools.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Coastal and Harbor Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Coastal and Harbor Engineering at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre
Persian, English
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NOAA-EMC/WW3
Jun 2018 - Aug 2022
WAVEWATCH III
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:236 reviews, 81 commits, 199 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ali's contributions primarily focused on the development and maintenance of the WAVEWATCH III (WW3) model, specifically within its core computational aspects. Their commits involved integrating new features, such as domain decomposition for unstructured implicit schemes using PDLIB and ParMetis. The user also updated existing functionalities, implemented new pre-processors, and added memory usage tracking options. Furthermore, they introduced changes to the software versioning.
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aliabdolali/WW3
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
WAVEWATCH III
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 1 month
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