Saeed Moghimi
NOS Storm Surge Modeling Team Lead at NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaeed Moghimi is a Ph.D.-trained coastal oceanographer and engineering leader with over a decade of experience building operational Earth system and storm surge forecasting systems for NOAA. As NOS Storm Surge Modeling Team Lead he scaled a team from 4 to 30+, led migration of legacy models to cloud and HPC platforms, and pioneered AI/ML-driven bias correction and probabilistic surge methods that materially improved forecast accuracy. He integrates hydrology, atmosphere, waves, and sediment dynamics into coupled operational models and has driven CI/CD, DevOps, and Agile practices across scientific teams. Saeed’s background spans academic research, international fellowships, and large-scale engineering projects, giving him rare expertise at the intersection of high-performance scientific computing, operational forecasting, and coastal resilience planning. Notably, he directed the first large-scale application of Neural Operator deep learning for surge bias reduction within NOAA’s operational pipeline.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Fellowship, physical oceanography, Fellowship, physical oceanography at Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock, GermanyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Civil Engineering - hydraulics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Civil Engineering - hydraulics at Tarbiat Modares UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Civil Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology
English, German, Persian
Github Skills (24)
atmosphere9
wave9
ocean9
ice8
hydrology8
power-systems8
modeling-tool8
ufs5
python5
cap4
unstructured4
noaa3
environmental3
netcdf3
modeling2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
moghimis/pynmd
Aug 2016 - Nov 2021
Python tools for nearshore applications
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
python-toolspython
moghimis/bibtex
Oct 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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