Ned Bair
Chief Scientist, Portfolio Manager, Earth Intelligence at Leidos
Mammoth Lakes, California, United States
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Top SchoolNed Bair is Chief Scientist and Portfolio Manager for Earth Intelligence at Leidos and a Technical Fellow with a research appointment at UC Santa Barbara, blending operational program leadership with deep cryospheric science. He directs multidisciplinary teams on geospatial intelligence, remote sensing, numerical weather prediction, and cold-regions mobility, translating research into climate and defense solutions for agencies like NASA, NOAA, and USACE. A PhD-trained researcher who began as a ski patroller installing mountain weather stations, he brings hands-on field experience to high‑impact sensor fusion, data assimilation, and spectral unmixing work that has attracted national media attention. He has led or co-investigated over $14M in awards, built full-stack weather-data systems on AWS through his consulting practice, and consistently bridges academic research with operational deployment.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
St. Stephen's and St. Agnes SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Science and Management, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Science and Management at University of California, Santa BarbaraBachelor's Degree, Economics, magna cum laude, Bachelor's Degree, Economics, magna cum laude at Bowdoin College
Github Skills (18)
snow10
inversion9
energy9
cert8
security7
dns6
parallel6
encrypt6
certificate5
acme5
letsencrypt5
ssl5
snowpack2
water2
equivalent2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
edwardbair/ParBal
Oct 2017 - Jul 2022
Parallel energy balance model
Contributions:2 releases, 48 commits, 41 pushes in 4 years 10 months
parallelenergybalanceenergy-balance-model
edwardbair/SPIRES
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Snow property inversion from remote sensing (SPIReS)
Contributions:2 releases, 196 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years
inversionremote-sensingsnowsensing
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