Dr. Amy McGovern is a Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor in the School of Meteorology and School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Dr McGovern is also the director and PI of the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES). Dr McGovern is a national leader in the field of AI for weather and has been working in the field since joining OU in 2005. She is the lead author on multiple highly cited publications in AI for weather, including showing how AI can be used to successfully predict high-impact weather events, developing explainable AI methods focused on weather, and showing the value of convergence research for AI in weather. Dr. McGovern received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2002 and was a senior postdoctoral research associate at the University of Massachusetts until joining the University of Oklahoma in 2005. She received her MS from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1998) and her BS (honors) from Carnegie Mellon University (1996). Dr McGovern is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
