Elizabeth Amy McGovern is an American computer scientist and meteorologist who uses

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

to help predict

severe weather Severe weather is any dangerous meteorological phenomenon with the potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life. These vary depending on the latitude, altitude, topography, and atmospheric conditions. High ...

. She is Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor in the School of Computer Science and School of Meteorology at the

University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two territories became the ...

, where she directs the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography.

Education and career

McGovern majored in mathematics and computer science at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

, graduating in 1996. She went to the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

for graduate study in computer science, where she received a master's degree in 1998 and completed her Ph.D. in 2002. Her dissertation, ''Autonomous discovery of temporal abstractions from interaction with an environment'', was supervised by

Andrew Barto Andrew Gehret Barto (born 1948 or 1949) is an American computer scientist, currently Professor Emeritus of computer science at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Barto is best known for his foundational contributions to the field of modern co ...

. She joined the University of Oklahoma as an assistant professor of computer science in 2005. She was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and full professor in 2018. She became an adjunct faculty member in the university's School of Meteorology in 2006, and became a professor in the school in 2020. The University of Oklahoma gave her the Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professorship in 2020.

Recognition

In 2020, McGovern was named as a Fellow of the

American Meteorological Society The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is a scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences. Its mission is to advance the atmosph ...

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