Dr. Anna Shlyaeva joined JCSDA in November 2018, as a part-time software engineer in the Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI) development team. With JEDI, Anna is working on the generic aspects of forward operators and ensemble data assimilation algorithms. She also provides support to people implementing observation operators in JEDI.

Anna graduated from Moscow State Technical University in Russia, with a PhD in Computer Science. She has been interested in applied mathematics for atmospheric sciences since her undergrad studies when she worked at the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia. There, she worked for almost 10 years on various data assimilation projects, including developing ensemble data assimilation system for the global NWP from scratch. At the same time, she worked at the Technical University in Moscow as an assistant professor, teaching at the Software Engineering Department.

After juggling two jobs in Moscow, Anna spent two years at the Canadian Meteorological Center in Montreal, working on the ensemble data assimilation for sea ice application. Having grown up in the Far East of Russia close to the Arctic Circle, she was the only sea ice data assimilation team member who had actually seen sea ice. Anna hopes to get back to doing more work on sea ice and the Arctic.

Anna moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 2015, to share home and life with her husband, daughter, and stepsons. She started a job as a research scientist with NOAA at that time, where she worked part-time on the ensemble data assimilation aspects and production of the global atmospheric ensemble reanalysis.

Anna loves watching sunrises with a cup of coffee and a toddler pointing out all the colors in the sky, traveling and seeing new places, reading, enjoying visual arts, and would like to do more photography and hiking.