Yara Mohajerani
Founder at Pluripotent Technologies
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, 3.89/4.00, Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction, Physics, 3.89/4.00 at University of TorontoA.Y. Jackson S.S.Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Earth System Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine
English, Persian
Github Skills (33)
harmonic8
geodesy8
coefficients8
gravity8
introspection6
satellite6
self-organizing-map6
sports-data6
surface5
imagery5
satellite-imagery5
temporal5
statistics4
classification4
python4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yaramohajerani/GL_learning
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
yaramohajerani/yaramohajerani
Aug 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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