AI-assisted forecasting
Investigating how machine learning can support weather prediction while keeping uncertainty, evaluation, and operational usefulness in view.
- Weather prediction
- Uncertainty-aware evaluation
- Human-centered forecasting
Building systems that learn, scale, and behave (mostly).
I’m Howard Hottinger, a Computer Science PhD student working at the intersection of machine learning, weather, and real-world systems.
$ profile --statusname: Howard Hottingerrole: PhD Student, Computer Sciencefocus: Machine Learning, Weather, AI Systemsstatus: building, testing, learning$ tail -n 5 current.log09:15 preparing the next experiment09:17 checking the data pipeline09:19 evaluating model behavior09:22 writing up results09:24 iterating
Research focus
Machine learning systems
Building reliable training and evaluation workflows for data-intensive scientific problems.
- Reproducible experiments
- Scalable data workflows
- Model diagnostics
Research tooling
Turning repetitive research tasks into practical tools that make complex work easier to run, inspect, and trust.
- Data pipelines
- Experiment tracking
- Workflow automation
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AI-assisted weather forecasting
Exploring machine-learning approaches to weather prediction, with an emphasis on rigorous evaluation and practical forecasting value.
Machine learningWeatherEvaluationResearch systems
In development
Reproducible research workflows
Practical tooling for moving from raw scientific data to repeatable experiments and inspectable results.
Data pipelinesAutomationExperiment tracking
Ongoing
Model evaluation and diagnostics
Evaluation practices that make model comparisons clearer, more honest, and more useful than a single headline metric.
DiagnosticsError analysisModel comparison
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About Howard
Research should be rigorous—and useful in the real world.
I enjoy building things that turn complicated ideas, messy data, and long-running experiments into systems people can understand and use.
More about me$ whoamirole: researcher & builderbased_in: Virginia + North Dakotacoffee: yescurrently: iterating
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