Professor Dale Durran is named the 2026 NVIDIA Research Faculty Fellow for his contributions to research collaboration on AI for Earth system prediction! Prof. Durran has a 25% appointment at NVIDIA as a principal research scientist, with “a research focus on deep learning earth-system modeling for sub-seasonal and seasonal forecasting, forecast ensembles, and generative methods for fine-scale modeling of convective precipitation and other mesoscale fields.”
The above image is Prof. Durran at NVIDIA’s 2026 GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in San Jose, CA.
Read more about this recognition on the UW College of the Environment news.