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Dr. Robert Redmon

Robert Redmon

Dr. Robert Redmon is a senior scientist with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) where he serves as the Director of the NOAA Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI, noaa.gov/ai). He is also the lead for the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Science Center. In 2020, he received a Department of Commerce Gold Medal and a NOAA Administrator’s Award. He is a graduate of the 2021 NOAA Leadership Competencies Development Program (LCDP) class XI “Transformers”. He has authored or co-authored over 65 publications on Earth and space science topics.

Rob received a D.B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computational Mathematics from the University of California, Riverside in 1998, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2000 and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2012. He received the Goodrich Aerostructures engineering scholarship (1993-1998), and held an Arthur J. Schmitt Leadership Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame (1998-2000). As continuous learning is a core personal value, he is currently pursuing a Stanford Professional AI Program Certificate.

He joined NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Solar and Terrestrial Physics group as a physical scientist in 2003. His professional activities have included developing radar systems for ionospheric sounding; facilitating information exchange through the World Data Service; studying auroral processes, and magnetic fields at LEO and GEO; calibrating space-borne instruments; and investigating satellite anomalies; all across a variety of platforms including the NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), DOD Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), and Meteorological Operational (Metop) constellations.


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