IMSS

Physics-informed transformers for snow water equivalent forecasting and machine learning for coral bleaching recovery prediction.

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Published Papers

Hybrid Physics-Informed Transformers vs. Traditional Machine Learning for Operational Snow Water Equivalent Forecasting

Brandon Yee, Mihir Tekal, Upmanu Lall

Accepted to ICLR 2026 FM4Science

ICLR 2026 FM4Science (OpenReview)GitHub (SWE Prediction)

Predicting Coral Bleaching Recovery Using Machine Learning

Brandon Yee, Mihir Tekal, Sreehari Vijaybhaskar, Daniel Rittschof, Ty Roach

Presented at MIT-IEEE Undergraduate Research Technical Conference 2025 • 1st Place Lightning Talks

GitHub (Coral Recovery)

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Team

Mihir Tekal

Research Director

Yee Collins Research Group

Brandon Yee

Lead Researcher

Yee Collins Research Group

Upmanu Lall

Director

Columbia Water Center

Daniel Rittschof

Professor

Duke Nicholas School of the Environment

Ty Roach

Visiting Scholar

Duke Nicholas School of the Environment

Shakeel Abdulkareem

Researcher

Yee Collins Research Group

Lucas Wang

Researcher

Yee Collins Research Group

Sreehari Vijaybhaskar

Researcher

Yee Collins Research Group

Dou Lai

Researcher

Yee Collins Research Group

Rahil Patel

Researcher

Yee Collins Research Group

Sungbeen Lee

Researcher

Yee Collins Research Group

Jamie Lee

Researcher

Yee Collins Research Group