MS Data Science · Columbia · Dec 2026

VaishnaviKannan

Climate & Weather Machine Learning

Climate data, made trustworthy. I build weather and climate ML models, from monsoon forecasting to climate-model emulation, alongside applied AI and production analytics.

Columbia University · New York, NY

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Vaishnavi Kannan smiling by the waterfront

Current research

NeurIPS 2026 TCCML paper on Prithvi-WxC · ML climate-model emulation with NASA GISS

First-author S2S monsoon manuscript in prep

Research & work with

Columbia University

NASA GISS

IRI

Fulton Ring

Holland America Line

E2Open

Saama

Selected results

Numbers that hold up.

~47%

of apparent forecast skill traced to a data leak — then fixed

11+

U-Net ablation variants; best model ~3× the baseline's skill (RPSS 0.039 vs 0.012)

3–4%

WAPE on a shipped voyage-level revenue forecast

NeurIPS

2026 TCCML workshop paper on Prithvi-WxC latents

Research

Selected research.

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S2S Monsoon

IRI for Climate and Society, Columbia

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Prithvi-WxC

Columbia Climate School

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GISS Emulator

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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Fulton Ring

Fulton Ring (climate-data startup)

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Industry

Shipped in production.

Full experience →

Holland America Line

Business Strategy & Performance Analytics Intern

Jun 2026 — Aug 2026

3–4%

WAPE vs. actuals

E2Open

Data Science Analyst — PMO Division

Aug 2024 — Aug 2025

3d → hrs

Reporting turnaround

People+ai

AI/ML Engineer (part-time)

Aug 2024 — Mar 2025

RAG

Cited answers

Saama Technologies

Data Science Intern

Feb 2023 — Dec 2023

93%

GBM accuracy