Colin Grudzien PhD.

Senior Data Scientist – Sofar Ocean Technologies


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Professional Experience

Jan. 2025 -
Present
Senior Data Assimilation Scientist

Sofar Ocean Technologies – Remote, San Diego, CA, USA

Jan. 2022 -
Jan. 2025
Senior Data Assimilation Scientist

Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) – Scripps Institution of Oceanography – San Diego, CA, USA

Jan. 2019 -
Dec. 2021
Assistant Professor of Statistics

University of Nevada, Reno – Reno, NV, USA

Aug. 2018 -
Dec. 2018
Visiting Researcher

Centre d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Environnement Atmosphérique (CEREA) – Champ-sur-Marne, France

Aug. 2016 -
Dec. 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) – Bergen, Norway

Oct. 2012 -
May 2016
Graduate Research Assistant

Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN) – UNC at Chapel Hill Node

June 2015 -
Aug. 2015
Graduate Research Assistant

Center for Nonlinear Studies - Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) – Los Alamos, NM, USA

Education

Aug. 2011 -
May 2016
Doctor of Philosophy Mathematics

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Chapel Hill, NC, USA

June 2008 -
May 2011
Bachelor of Science Magna Cum Laude, Mathematics & History

University of Oregon – Eugene, OR, USA

April 2006 -
June 2008
Transfer credit

Lane Community College – Eugene, OR, USA

Research Funding

Sept. 2024 -
Sept. 2026
Office of Naval Research (PI)

Multi-resolution Ensemble Assessment of Source Uncertainties in atmospheric River Evolution (MEASURE)

Sept. 2023 -
Sept. 2025
Air Force Research Laboratory (Co-PI)

Improving Predictions of Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Precipitation, Clouds, Winds and Visibility in Support of US Air Forece Weather-Sensitive Decisions

Languages

Python, Bash, Julia, R, Matlab, LaTeX Advanced proficiency
AWS CLI, C++, Fortran, HTML & CSS Basic proficiency

Core Software & Data Engineering Tools

Workflow Orchestration Airflow / Astronomer, Cylc, Cron, Slurm, PBS
Software Deployment Docker, Apptainer, pip, conda-forge
High performance computing AWS Parallel Cluster, ECS, EC2, S3, Linux
Software development Github / Co-Pilot, Augment Code, Vim
Data Models NetCDF, Zarr, Grib2, JSON, Xarray, Pandas

Weather & Climate Modelling Frameworks

WRF-GSI Advanced proficiency
MPAS-JEDI Intermediate proficiency
FV3-JEDI Basic proficiency
Model Evaluation Tools / METplus Advanced proficiency

Open Source Software Projects

Ensemble-DA-Cycling-Template

This is a Cylc-driven framework for running WRF-GSI-based / MPAS-JEDI-based ensemble DA reforecast twin experiments.

MET-tools

This is a Cylc-driven framwork for batch process NWP outputs with the Model Evaluation Tools (MET) libraries and a scientific Python stack.

DataAssimilationBenchmarks.jl

This Julia framework is designed for high-performance benchmark studies of novel ensemble DA methods.

DAPPER

DAPPER is a package for learning the implementation, and benchmarking the performance, of data assimilation (DA) methods in Python.

ADA compliant teaching workflow

Workflow for teaching mathematics and statistics with ADA web accessibility standards.

Publications

Teaching

STAT 775
Data Assimilation and Estimation Theory (Fall 2021)
STAT 757
Applied Regression Analysis (Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020)
STAT 4/645
Introduction to statistical computing (Fall 2020 / Fall 2021)
STAT 352
Probability and statistics (Spring 2021)
STAT 152
Introduction to Statistics (Spring 2020)