Abby is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the departments of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta.

Her research group aims to develop the use of machine intelligence for scientific discovery in planetary science and space physics. The group focuses on addressing outstanding challenges in uncertainty quantification and the inclusion of physical information. These challenges are broadly shared between scientific domains and our focus centers on probabilistic machine learning and inverse problems. 

Abby is also a Science Team Member of the NASA MAVEN mission to Mars where she leads machine learning research relevant to studying Mars’ space environment. Previously, she was a UBC Data Science Fellow and a post-doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley’s Space Science Lab. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan College of Engineering’s Climate and Space Department where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellow. Prior to this Abby spent several years pursuing graduate education at IDA’s Science and Technology Institute.