Abigail Azari

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science - Physics
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept

Pronouns: she/her

Personal Website: https://abbyazari.github.io/

Contact

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science - Physics
Email
aazari@ualberta.ca

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
Email
aazari@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Machine Learning Bayesian Statistics Space Physics Planetary Science Planetary Magnetospheres Space Environments Space Plasmas Photonics and Plasmas


About

I am an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the departments of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta and a research Fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.

See my research website for more information (including student opportunities) and Google Scholar for my publications. 

Education

PhD, University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science, 2020
Funded through a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, and a Rackham Merit Fellowship.

MS, University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science, 2017

BA, Smith College, Physics, 2013

Selected Professional Experience

Research Fellow, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, Current

Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Current

Post-Doctoral Researcher & Data Science Fellow, University of British Columbia, 2023 - 2025

Post-Doctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Lab, 2020 - 2023

Science Policy Fellow, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, 2013 - 2015

I also held various undergraduate research positions prior to 2013 at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory/DIII-D National Fusion Facility, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Colorado School of Mines. 

Research Students

Currently accepting undergraduate students for research project supervision.

Open positions (including directions for how to apply) are online at abbyazari.github.io/join.