Greg Hakim's Bio

Greg Hakim is a leading atmospheric scientist currently adapting deep-learning models for novel research on predictability, data assimilation, sensitivity analysis and extreme events in current and historical time periods. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers and two leading textbooks on weather and dynamic meteorology. Greg serves on the advisory panel for the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and previously served on the Advisory Committee to the Geosciences Division at NSF, and the President's Advisory Committee on University Relations (NCAR). He has undergraduate degrees in Math and Atmospheric Sciences, and a PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University at Albany, State University of NY. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the Advanced Study Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Greg joined the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 1999 where he is Professor and served as Department Chair (2012-2017).