Yara Mohajerani
Risk Analytics Specialist at WSP
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYara Mohajerani is a founder and climate-tech entrepreneur with nine years of experience building data-driven tools for climate risk and geospatial analysis, including TerraScen and TerraTab. She holds a PhD in Earth System Science from UC Irvine and blends rigorous academic research in glaciology and spatial-temporal statistics with hands-on software and agent-based modeling implementation. Yara has led startups and consulting engagements for major Canadian financial institutions, and previously co-founded ML-driven consumer analytics and climate startups, demonstrating both product leadership and technical depth. She maintains active ties to academia as a UW Data Science Affiliate and former postdoc/adjunct, and her background in physics and optics informs a quantitative, instrumentation-minded approach to problem solving. An underrated strength is her experience translating complex research into practical, auditable tools for decision-makers in finance and policy.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction Physics, Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction Physics at University of TorontoA.Y. Jackson S.S.University of California, Irvine
English, Persian
Github Skills (22)
convolutional-neural-networks9
geodesy9
gravity8
geoscience8
computer-vision7
deep-learning6
unsupervised-learning6
machine-learning6
python5
temporal4
statistics4
clustering4
spatial3
ipython2
sustainability2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yaramohajerani/dynamic_mascons
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 41 commits, 71 pushes in 4 months
yaramohajerani/spatial-climate-ABM
Jul 2025 - May 2026
Spatial economic agent based model for climate risk
Contributions:21 PRs, 96 pushes, 12 branches in 10 months
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