Seminars

Abstract forthcoming - please watch this space!

Bio: Haruko Wainwright is an assistant professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her BEng in Engineering Physics from Kyoto University, Japan in 2003; her MS in nuclear engineering in 2006, her MA in statistics in 2010 and PhD in nuclear engineering in 2010 from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining MIT, she was a Staff Scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an adjunct professor in Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on environmental informatics, aiming to improve understanding and predictions in Earth and environmental systems through mechanistic modeling and machine learning.