Sean Freeman
Assistant Professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolSean Freeman is an Assistant Professor of Atmospheric and Earth Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville with a decade of experience studying clouds and storms through numerical modeling, data science, and observations. He earned his MS and PhD at Colorado State University after a BS in Meteorology and Computer Science from Florida State, blending strong computational skills with atmospheric expertise. A former postdoc and long-time member of Sue van den Heever’s Cloud Processes Group, Sean has hands-on experience with field campaigns, aircraft data, and high-performance computing from managing research clusters to mentoring students in scientific programming. He is a core developer on the tobac project, signaling active engagement in open-source tools for cloud microphysics and model analysis. Based in Huntsville, he combines academic research, software development, and practical measurement experience to bridge theory and operationally relevant understanding of convective systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Meteorology and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Meteorology and Computer Science at Florida State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Atmospheric Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Atmospheric Science at Colorado State UniversityN/A, Gatton Academy Student, N/A, Gatton Academy Student at Western Kentucky University
Github Skills (66)
meteorology10
gcp10
oceanography10
shapely10
model-driven9
atmosphere9
weather9
querying9
unidata8
panda3d8
python8
forecasting8
particle8
datasets7
netcdf7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RAMSmodel/RAMS
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
RAMS model source code
Contributions:2 releases, 14 reviews, 14 commits in 1 year 9 months
ramsjava
freemansw1/tobac
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Tracking and object-based analysis of clouds
Contributions:13 PRs, 366 pushes, 88 branches in 3 years 2 months
cloudgcpcloudstracking
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