Eleventh Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2023)

Workshop Co-conveners

• Forrest M. Hoffman is a Distinguished Computational Earth System Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. As a resident researcher in ORNL’s Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) and a member of ORNL’s Computational Sciences & Engineering Division (CSED), Forrest develops and applies Earth system models (ESMs) to investigate the global carbon cycle and feedbacks between biogeochemical cycles and the climate system. He applies data mining methods using high performance computing to problems in landscape ecology, remote sensing, and large-scale climate data analytics. He founded the workshop series on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS) in 2009 and has served as lead convener for all prior workshops. Forrest is also a Joint Faculty Professor in the University of Tennessee’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in nearby Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

• Jitendra Kumar is a computational hydrologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Joint Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. He conducts research at the intersection of high performance computing, environmental and Earth sciences, and systems analysis and data mining. His research entails data mining, large-scale global optimization, computational hydrology and hydrogeology, landscape ecology, remote sensing, and development of parallel algorithms for large-scale supercomputers.

• Kaixu Bai is an Associate Professor in the School of Geographic Sciences at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. He applies big data analytics for missing value imputation and data fusion to advance environmental monitoring and management. As an atmospheric scientist, he uses remote sensing data to study aerosols, air quality, climate, and meteorology, and he performs multisensor data fusion and machine learning to enhance data for modeling and analysis.

• Venakta Shashank “Shashi” Konduri is a remote sensing scientist working for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), which is operated by Battelle. He is interested in studying the structure, composition and environmental drivers of vegetation distribution over large spatiotemporal scales using remote sensing data and machine learning methods. In collaboration with scientists at reputed government agencies, such as NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the US Forest Service, he has developed and deployed spatiotemporal data mining methods for improved understanding of plant structure and composition and predictive modeling of vegetation productivity.

Program Committee

• Kaixu Bai (East China Normal University, Shanghai, CHINA)
• Udit Bhatia (IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, INDIA)
• Bjørn-Gustaf J. Brooks (Living Carbon, San Francisco, California, USA)
• Gustau Camps-Valls (Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, Valencia, SPAIN)
• Nathan Collier (Computational Earth Sciences Group, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division and Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Auroop R. Ganguly (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
• William W. Hargrove (Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA)
• Forrest M. Hoffman (Computational Earth Sciences Group, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division and Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Jian Huang (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee USA)
• Soo Kyung Kim (PARC, a Xerox Company, Palo Alto, California, USA)
• Venakta Shashank “Shashi” Konduri (National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
• Jitendra Kumar (Terrestrial Systems Modeling Group, Environmental Sciences Division and Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Vipin Kumar (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
• Kuldeep Kurte (Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• Zachary L. Langford (Cyber & Applied Data Analytics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• Miguel D. Mahecha (Remote Sensing Center for Earth System Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, GERMANY)
• Jiafu Mao (Terrestrial Systems Modeling Group, Environmental Sciences Division and Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Murali Gopalakrishnan Meena (Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility,Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• Richard T. Mills (Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulations, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA)
• Steven P. Norman (Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA)
• Bharat Sharma (Ecosystem Processes Group, Environmental Sciences Division and Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Sarat Sreepathi (Computer Science & Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Vamsi Sripathi (Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA)
• Karsten Steinhaeuser (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
• TJ Vandal (NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA)
• Min Xu (Computational Earth Sciences Group, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division and Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Cheng-En Yang (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA)