James Doss-gollin
Assistant Professor at Rice University
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Doss-gollin is an Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Rice University with 11 years of experience advancing climate risk management and decision-making under deep uncertainty. He leads research on flood resilience for communities and infrastructure, combining spatiotemporal statistics, physics-informed machine learning, and probabilistic modeling to produce actionable adaptation planning tools. His work bridges academic rigor and practical impact, from updating rainfall frequency estimates to on-the-ground resilience projects in Texas. Trained at Yale and Columbia (PhD), he brings a data-driven, decision-focused teaching style that integrates earth science, data science, and policy relevance. Notably, his background includes international applied research and program work in Paraguay and Brazil, reflecting a commitment to equitable, context-aware solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Yale UniversityHigh School, High School at Wilbur Cross High School (New Haven, CT)
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Gujarati
Github Skills (135)
python10
statistics10
pandas9
dataframes9
snakemake9
manipulation9
machine-learning9
frame9
data-structures9
data-science9
data-analysis9
scikit8
julia8
latex8
data-manipulation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jdossgollin/my-papers
Mar 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:285 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
jdossgollin/conda-envs
Mar 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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