Tapio Schneider
Lead Principal Investigator
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTapio Schneider is a leading climate scientist and professor at Caltech who directs the Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA) to develop the first climate model that learns directly from Earth observations. With a PhD from Princeton and a career spanning Caltech, ETH Zurich, JPL, and recent roles at Google, he blends deep theoretical understanding of atmospheric dynamics and clouds with cutting‑edge machine learning and software-driven model development. His research has clarified how rainfall extremes and cloud feedbacks respond to warming, and he applies planetary-scale insights from Earth to bodies like Jupiter and Titan. As a mentor and institutional leader he has a track record of building multidisciplinary teams of scientists, applied mathematicians, and engineers to tackle practical climate prediction challenges. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between academic leadership and industry research, helping translate foundational climate physics into operational, data‑driven tools for mitigation and adaptation.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of WashingtonPhysics, Physics at The University of FreiburgDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University
Github Skills (47)
soil10
atmosphere10
in-progress10
carbon-emissions10
climate-science10
earth10
climate-change10
noaa10
canopy10
ocean10
julia10
optimization10
modeling-tool9
approximate9
inversion9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CliMA/Design-Docs
Sep 2018 - May 2021
Design Documents for the Climate Machine
Contributions:39 commits, 39 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 8 months
design-documentsclimate
tapios/CLIMA
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Climate Machine
Contributions:31 PRs, 55 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
climate
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