Member Since 1996
Rahul Ramachandran
Senior Research Scientist, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Dr. Rahul Ramachandran is a distinguished Senior Research Scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and leads the Inter-Agency Implementation and Advanced Concepts (IMPACT) team. His research interests span a range of topics, including data science, informatics, and AI/ML. Dr. Ramachandran is the recipient of numerous accolades and honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal.
Professional Experience
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Senior Research Scientist
2012 - Present
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Principal Research Scientist
2011 - 2013
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sr. Spatial Systems Architect
2010 - 2011
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Research Scientist
2001 - 2010
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Research Associated
1998 - 2001
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Education
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Doctorate
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Masters
Current Roles
Member
Informatics Leptoukh Lecture Award Committee
Publications
Tropical Cyclone Wind Speed Estimation: A Large Scale Training Data Set and Community Benchmarking
Tropical cyclones (TCs) cause significant disruptions to infrastructure and livelihood. The scale of loss due to TCs may be mitigated by prompt and...
February 28, 2023
From Open Data to Open Science
The open science movement continues to gain momentum, attention, and discussion. However, there are a number of different interpretations, viewpoin...
May 17, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Leveraging Weather Foundation Models for Exploring the Earth System: 5 New Multi-Modal Datasets for Downstream Tasks
AI MODELS IN EARTH SCIENCE I POSTER
informatics | 15 december 2023
Rajat Shinde, Ankur Kumar, Christopher E. Phillips...
Recently, Foundation Models (FMs) have shown promising results for a wide range of vision-and-language tasks. These FMs harness the rich feature set f...
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Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance NASA’s Information Search and Discovery
AI MODELS IN EARTH SCIENCE II ORAL
informatics | 15 december 2023
Ashish Acharya, Iksha Gurung, Anish Bhusal, Vishal...
This presentation delves into the challenges and strategies associated with harnessing vast quantities of unstructured data at NASA. One such challeng...
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Foundation Models for Science: An Open Collaborative Initiative
AI MODELS IN EARTH SCIENCE II ORAL
informatics | 15 december 2023
Rahul Ramachandran, Iksha Gurung, Muthukumaran Ram...
Foundation Models (FMs), AI models designed to replace task-specific models, are increasingly being recognized for their versatility across numerous d...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2026
Member
Informatics Leptoukh Lecture Award Committee
2020 - 2020
Member
Informatics Fellows Committee
2017 - 2018
Member
Informatics Fellows Committee
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