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The CORE Fellows Program brings together individuals from diverse disciplines and sectors and equips them to collaborate and apply their skills to solve complex societal problems. The curriculum is focused on the identification and definition of use-inspired research problems and the design of sustainable solutions through close connections with end-users and communities of practice. Learn more about our curriculum here.
2023 CORE Fellows Projects
Each year the CORE Institute selects a thematic focus related to a societal grand challenge. The theme for the 2023 Institute was “Tackling Climate-Induced Challenges with AI”. See below to learn more about the 2023 CORE Fellows projects.
2023 Fellows
Adam Smith | Missouri Botanical Garden |
Aisha Yousuf | Raytheon BBN Technologies |
Alexis Will | World Wildlife Fund US Arctic Program |
Aleya Kaushik | University of Colorado Boulder |
Anthony D'Agostino | Mathematica |
Arturo Leon | Florida International University |
Brennan Bean | Utah State University |
Casey Youngflesh | Michigan State University |
Chuxuan Li | Northwestern University Earth and Planetary Sciences Department |
Daniel Howard | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
Dapeng Li | South Dakota State University |
Dawn Lehman | University of Washington |
Debzani Deb | Winston-Salem State University |
Di Shi | New Mexico State University |
Dong Liang | UMCES, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory |
Elizabeth Brown | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Elizabeth Webb | University of Florida |
Fatemeh Izaditame | University of Delaware |
Galen Treuer | Miami-Dade County |
Gamal El Afandi | Tuskegee University |
Gammon Koval | Farallon Institute |
Gang He | Department of Technology and Society, Stony Brook University |
Guillermo Velasco | CAPSUS |
Gustavo Marques | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
HATIM O SHARIF | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
Hao Wang | Rutgers University |
Hassan Moustahfid | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
Holly Josephs | Rutgers University, Department of Civil Engineering |
Inna Popova | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Ivannia Gomez Moreno | Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior |
Jake Stevens | Climastry |
Jeeyoon Jung | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
Jiaxin Du | Texas A&M University |
Jillian Grennan | UC Berkeley |
Joanta Green | United Nations Development Programme |
Jonathan Leidig | Grand Valley State University |
Josh Seltzer | Nexxt Intelligence |
Joshua Picotte | United States Geological Survey |
Julia Oliveto | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Keqi He | Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University |
Lara Munro | University of New Hampshire |
Ljuba Novi | Georgia Institute of Technology |
Mara Freilich | Scripps Institution of Oceanography / Brown University |
Maria Molina | University of Maryland at College Park |
Maria Salazar | University of Michigan |
Meredith McPherson | University of Massachusetts Boston |
Michael Marks | Analytica Consulting |
Mistoria Brown | University of Miami |
Morgan Levy | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego |
Neven Fuckar | University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute (ECI) |
Nezamoddin N. Kachouie | Florida Institute of Technology |
Nick Haring | Byron Analytics |
Nicolas Gauthier | University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History |
Omar Abbaas | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
Paige Austin | University of Utah |
Peiyuan Li | Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois System |
Pejman Tahmasebi | Colorado School of Mines |
Rasika Bhalerao | Northeastern University |
Rebecca Shaftel | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Reed Van Beveren | Environmental Policy Innovation Center |
Richard Smith | Wayne State University |
Robert Ddamulira | C.S Mott Foundation |
Roger Wang | Rutgers University |
Rose Wang | Rocky Mountain Institute |
Shreyas Jha | The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University |
Sirani Mututhanthrige Perera | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
Stephen Medeiros | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
Svitlana Tarasenko | Sumy State University |
Tess Carter | George Washington University |
Victoria Preston | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Vivek Pandit | Microsoft |
Xiaonan Tai | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
Xingpeng Li | University of Houston |
Xinyi Shen | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Ying Sun | Cornell University |
Yu Yang | California State University Long Beach |
Yueling Ma | Princeton University |
Yun Sing Koh | The University of Auckland |
Yury Garcia | University of California Davis |
Zhanxiang Hua | University of Washington Seattle |
Zhanzhao Li | The Pennsylvania State University |
Zhaoan Wang | The University of Iowa |
Zhe Wang | University of Idaho |
Zhen Cong | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
Zhiang Chen | Arizona State University |
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