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Researcher

Andrea Jenney

Andrea Jenney is a climate scientist whose research connects machine learning with climate emulation and tropical convection. She earned degrees at the University of Miami and Colorado State, presented an invited talk on tropical ascent, and coauthored a 2021 study of Madden–Julian Oscillation teleconnections. She coauthored ClimSim, a global dataset of 5.7 billion input-output pairs for hybrid physics and machine-learning climate research; its paper won a 2023 NeurIPS Outstanding Paper award. In 2025, she received the CFMIP Early Career Scientist Award for a presentation on the ITCZ's negative cloud radiative effect and small anvil cloud fraction. Since 2022, she is an assistant professor at Oregon State and leads balloon soundings that have informed global weather forecasts.

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Timeline

  1. 2015–2020

    Degrees in atmospheric science

    She earns a B.S. at the University of Miami in 2015, an M.S. at Colorado State in 2017, and a Ph.D. in atmospheric science at Colorado State in 2020.

  2. March 2020

    A NOAA postdoctoral fellowship

    In March 2020, she is selected for a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship while finishing her atmospheric-science Ph.D. at Colorado State. She plans to join UC Irvine's Mike Pritchard for high-resolution simulations of small-scale atmospheric temperature features and convection, with the goal of improving weather and climate simulations.

  3. December 2020

    An invited AGU presentation

    At AGU in December 2020, she presents an invited talk titled “Understanding the Response of Tropical Ascent to Warming Using an Energy Balance Framework.”

  4. 2021

    MJO teleconnections and peer review

    In 2021, she coauthors “Drivers of uncertainty in future projections of Madden–Julian Oscillation teleconnections.” The study examines why climate models differ on how tropical storm activity will affect weather over the North Pacific and North America; she submits the authors' response to peer review in May 2021.

  5. 2023

    ClimSim earns a NeurIPS award

    She coauthors ClimSim, a global dataset of 5.7 billion multivariate input-output pairs for hybrid physics and machine-learning climate research. NeurIPS names the paper an Outstanding Paper in 2023.

  6. 2025

    A CFMIP early-career award

    She receives the 2025 CFMIP Early Career Scientist Award for her presentation on factors controlling the ITCZ's negative cloud radiative effect and small anvil cloud fraction.

  7. Since 2022

    Assistant professor at Oregon State

    She joins Oregon State as an assistant professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences in 2022 and studies tropical convection and clouds. In February 2026, she leads OSU's work in the Coordinated University Sounding Program for Atmospheric River Reconnaissance. Radiosondes on the balloons measure air pressure, temperature and humidity and record wind speed from balloon position; Jenney says their data have informed global weather forecasts.

Career

  1. Since 2022Oregon State UniversityAssistant Professor

Education

  1. 2020Colorado State UniversityPhD in atmospheric science
  2. 2015University of MiamiB.S.

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Andrea Jenney. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Oregon State University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Oregon State University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Oregon State University. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Faculty A-Z | Oregon State University catalog.oregonstate.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Andrea Jenney awarded NOAA postdoctoral fellowship - Department of Atmospheric Science | Colorado State University atmos.colostate.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. AGU 2020 CPAESS Presentations | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science cpaess.ucar.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. WCD - Peer review - Drivers of uncertainty in future projections of Madden–Julian Oscillation teleconnections wcd.copernicus.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. NeurIPS 2023 Awards neurips.cc. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. CFMIP Early Career Scientist Award cfmip.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Andrea Jenney | College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences | Oregon State University ceoas.oregonstate.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. CEOAS researcher, students contribute to national weather data with balloon-launching project | OSU Today | Oregon State University today.oregonstate.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.