Ryan Mcgranaghan
Senior Data Scientist And Aerospace Engineering Scientist
Mount Rainier, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Mcgranaghan is a Senior Data Scientist and Aerospace Engineering Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory with eight years of experience applying machine learning, data assimilation, and complexity science to space and Earth science challenges. He bridges aerospace engineering and data science to advance space weather forecasting, autonomous navigation, and cloud-based ML applications, drawing on a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and a Jack Eddy postdoctoral fellowship. As a core member of NASA's Transformation to Open Science initiative, he champions reproducibility, accessibility, and cross-center collaboration to make research more inclusive and impactful. Ryan also cultivates transdisciplinary dialogue outside the lab—producing the Origins Podcast and a newsletter, The Flourishing Commons—which reflects his interest in how social science and diverse communities accelerate frontier discovery. A detail that sets him apart is his consistent focus on treating the space environment as a complex system, using network analysis and multi-scale methods to turn curiosity-driven questions into operational science.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Ph.D. Candidate, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Ph.D. Candidate at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (72)
simulations9
mechanics9
modeling-tool9
cosmology9
gamma9
modeling9
diffraction9
hydrodynamics8
finite-element-analysis8
coordinates8
python7
ocean7
multiphysics7
jupyter-book7
thesaurus6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rmcgranaghan/NSF_CHESS
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 3 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years
rmcgranaghan/Helio-KNOW
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Software and systems for improved information representation in Heliophysics
Contributions:1 review, 84 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 9 months
representationheliophysicsimprovedfinite-element-analysismultiphysics
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