Selected Summer Schools
URSSI Summer School in Open Science and Research Software Engineering at UIUC
School: CIML Summer Institute
Course: URSSI 2024 Summer School
Location: Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Date: summer, 2024
- Software design and modularity
- Collaborative development with Git/GitHub
- Software testing in Python
- Peer code review
- Packaging and distributing Python software
- Documentation and licensing
- Reproducibility and open science practices
- Release and deployment best practice
- Use of open tools and open results
Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP)
School: Momentum Bootcamps
Course: Climate Data Science Course Outline
Location: New York, NY, USA
Date: Winter, 2024
- Exploring and Accessing Climate Data
- Computing Climate Statistics and Diagnostics
- Interactive Data Visualization
- Machine Learning on Spatio‑Temporal Climate Data
- Reproducible Computing and Cloud Collaboration
Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Machine Learning (CIML) Summer Institute
School: CIML Summer Institute
Course: CIML 2023 Summer Institute Course Outline
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Date: summer, 2023
- Machine Learning (ML) workflows on High‑Performance Computing
- High-Performance Computing and parallel computing concepts
- Batch job scheduling and data management on HPC
- GPU computing, containerization, and environment provisioning
- Scalable ML and deep learning techniques (including LLM inference)
- Team-Based Training Projects
The LeaderShape Institute
School: LeaderShape
Location: Cascade, ID, USA
Date: summer, 2023
- Working in High‑Performance Teams
- Dealing with Change and Chaos
- Ethical Decision‑Making
- Self-efficacy and Leadership Confidence
- Understanding Personal Values and the Values of Others
- Vision Creation & Leading with Integrity
- Resilience and Managing Uncertainty
Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Environmental Science
School: TAI4ES 2022 Summer School
Course: TAI4ES Hackathon
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Date: summer, 2022
- Foundations of Trustworthy AI
- Explainable AI (XAI)
- Robustness Evaluation
- Ethics & Trust Integration
- Trust‑a‑Thon Practical Experience
Community Terrestrial Systems Model (CTSM)
School: CTSM 2022 Tutorial
Repository: CTSM GitHub Repository
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Date: Winter, 2022
- Setting up and running CTSM simulations
- Using container-based environments for reproducible experimentation
- Visualizing and analyzing model outputs
- Modifying and customizing code
- Applying reproducible workflows with cloud and version control
Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF)
School: WRF 2022 Tutorial Winter
Repository: WRF GitHub Repository
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Date: Winter, 2022
- Compiling and installing WRF & Weather Preprocessing System from source
- Configuring and running real‑data and idealized case studies
- Creating nested domains and setting up multi-scale simulations
- Selecting and implementing physics and dynamics schemes
- Post‑processing output and visualizing results