Eleventh Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2025)

Workshop Co-conveners

• Forrest M. Hoffman is a Distinguished Computational Earth System Scientist and the Group Leader for the Integrated Computational Earth Sciences Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He develops and applies Earth system models (ESMs) to investigate global biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks between biogeochemical cycles and the Earth system. Forrest leads community model benchmarking activities and the development of the International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) and International Ocean Model Benchmarking (IOMB) packages. Forrest also leads development and deployment of a next generation Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) distributed data infrastructure in the US. In addition, Forrest applies data mining and machine learning methods using high performance computing to problems in landscape ecology, ecosystem modeling, remote sensing, and large-scale Earth science data analytics. Forrest is also a Joint Faculty Member in the University of Tennessee’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in nearby Knoxville, Tennessee, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

• 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. Jitendra is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

• Justin Jay Hnilo is the Program Manager for the Data Management Program within the Biological and Environmental Research’s (BER’s) Earth and Environmental System Sciences Divison (EESSD) in the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

Program Committee

• Kaixu Bai (East China Normal University, Shanghai, CHINA)
• Udit Bhatia (IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, INDIA)
• Bjørn-Gustaf J. Brooks (Carbon Solutions, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA)
• Gustau Camps-Valls (Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, Valencia, SPAIN)
• Nathan Collier (Integrated Computational Earth Sciences Group, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, 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 (Retired, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA)
• Forrest M. Hoffman (Integrated Computational Earth Sciences Group, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, 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, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Vipin Kumar (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
• Zachary L. Langford (Databricks Inc., San Francisco, California, USA)
• Russell Limber (Bredesen Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 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, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Elias Massoud (Integrated Computational Earth Sciences Group, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Murali Gopalakrishnan Meena (Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 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, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Shijie Shu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA)
• Sarat Sreepathi (Integrated Computational Earth Sciences Group, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Vamsi Sripathi (Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA)
• Karsten Steinhaeuser (AeroVironment, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
• TJ Vandal (Zeus AI, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
• Min Xu (Integrated Computational Earth Sciences Group, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)
• Cheng-En Yang (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA)