Robert Granat, Ph.D. is a highly accomplished machine learning and remote sensing expert with extensive experience in research and development. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2004 and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1998. He has held various leadership positions in both academia and the private sector, including CTO and Head of Science at CarbonSpace Ltd, a company focused on developing novel methods for carbon measurement using satellite observations. Dr. Granat's expertise lies in the fields of machine learning, Earth science, and remote sensing technologies. He has a strong background in developing algorithms and software systems for remote sensing measurement technologies and data analysis. His work has been instrumental in advancing the understanding of climate change and its impacts on the environment. Prior to his work at CarbonSpace Ltd, Dr. Granat held several research positions at the Research Foundation of City University of New York and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). At JPL, he served as the Science Team Algorithms Lead for the OCO-2 mission, a satellite mission dedicated to measuring carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere. He also served as the Group Supervisor for the Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy Group at JPL. Dr. Granat's contributions to the fields of machine learning, geophysics, and climate science have been recognized with numerous awards and publications. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU). In addition to his professional achievements, Dr. Granat is also dedicated to sharing his knowledge and expertise with the next generation of engineers and scientists.

Robert Granat, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in machine learning with domain expertise in carbon measurement, Earth science, and remote sensing

Research Expertise

Remote Sensing

Machine Learning

GHG Measurement

Geodesy

Atmospheric Science

Geochemistry and Petrology

Geophysics

Computational Theory and Mathematics

Hardware and Architecture

Software

Theoretical Computer Science

Applied Mathematics

Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

Statistics and Probability

Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

Modeling and Simulation

Computer Science Applications

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Mechanics of Materials

Computational Mechanics

Space and Planetary Science

Earth-Surface Processes

Forestry

Soil Science

Aquatic Science

Oceanography

Ecology

Water Science and Technology

Geology

Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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Publications

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2: first 18 months of science data products

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

2017

Real-time Earthquake Location Using Kirchhoff Reconstruction

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

2005

iSERVO: Implementing the International Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory by Integrating Computational Grid and Geographical Information Web Services

Pageoph Topical Volumes

Tests and tolerances for high-performance software-implemented fault detection

IEEE Transactions on Computers

2003

A Hidden Markov Model Based Tool for Geophysical Data Exploration

Earthquake Processes: Physical Modelling, Numerical Simulation and Data Analysis Part II

2002

iSERVO: Implementing the International Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory by Integrating Computational Grid and Geographical Information Web Services

Pure and Applied Geophysics

2006

Exploration of Large Digital Sky Surveys

ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA

Nowcasting Earthquakes: Imaging the Earthquake Cycle in California With Machine Learning

Earth and Space Science

2021

Simulation-Based Uncertainty Quantification for Estimating Atmospheric CO$_2$ from Satellite Data

SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification

2017

Software-implemented fault detection for high-performance space applications

Proceeding International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. DSN 2000

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SPIE Proceedings

2001

QuakeSim and the Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory

Pageoph Topical Volumes

Measuring Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide from the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)

Light, Energy and the Environment 2018 (E2, FTS, HISE, SOLAR, SSL)

2018

TCCON data from Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA, Release GGG2014R0

Unknown Venue

A scripting based architecture for management of streams and services in real-time grid applications

CCGrid 2005. IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2005.

2005

Challenges for Cluster Analysis in a Virtual Observatory

Statistical Challenges in Astronomy

The On-Orbit Performance of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) Instrument and its Radiometrically Calibrated Products

Unknown Venue

2016

Clustering Analysis Methods for GNSS Observations: A Data‐Driven Approach to Identifying California's Major Faults

Earth and Space Science

2021

E-DECIDER: Using Earth Science Data and Modeling Tools to Develop Decision Support for Earthquake Disaster Response

Pure and Applied Geophysics

2014

Analysis of streaming GPS measurements of surface displacement through a web services environment

2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining

2007

A Method of Hidden Markov Model Optimization for Use with Geophysical Data Sets

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2003

Algorithm-based fault tolerance for spaceborne computing: basis and implementations

2000 IEEE Aerospace Conference. Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8484)

Statistical Approaches to Detecting Transient Signals in GPS: Results from the 2009-2011 Transient Detection Exercise

Seismological Research Letters

2013

Simulating and Detecting Radiation-Induced Errors for Onboard Machine Learning

2009 Third IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology

2009

Detecting Regional Events via Statistical Analysis of Geodetic Networks

Pageoph Topical Volumes

Improving access to geodetic imaging crustal deformation data using GeoGateway

Earth Science Informatics

2021

Building Sensor Filter Grids: Information Architecture for the Data Deluge

2005 First International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid

2005

QuakeSim: Integrated modeling and analysis of geologic and remotely sensed data

2012 IEEE Aerospace Conference

2012

QuakeSim: Web Services, Portals, and Infrastructure for Geophysics

2008 IEEE Aerospace Conference

2008

QuakeSim: Efficient Modeling of Sensor Web Data in a Web Services Environment

2008 IEEE Aerospace Conference

2008

GeoGateway: A system for analysis of UAVSAR data products

2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

2016

Measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide from space with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)

Earth Observing Systems XX

2015

Estimating dynamic ionospheric changes without a priori models

Radio Science

2000

Integrating remotely sensed and ground observations for modeling, analysis, and decision support

2013 IEEE Aerospace Conference

2013

Analysis of emergent fault element behavior in Virtual California

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

2010

Modeling and On-the-Fly Solutions for Solid Earth Sciences: Web Services and Data Portal for Earthquake Early Warning System

IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

2008

The Quakes Concept for Observing and Mitigating Natural Disasters

IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

2019

Understanding earthquake fault systems using QuakeSim analysis and data assimilation tools

2009 IEEE Aerospace conference

2009

The Quakes Analytic Center Framework for Addressing Diverse Spatiotemporal Scales of Tectonic and Earthquake Processes

IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

2020

Nowcasting earthquakes

Earth and Space Science

2016

Effect of temporal aggregation on multiple time series in the frequency domain

Journal of Time Series Analysis

2013

Coseismic gravity changes of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake from satellite gravimetry

Geophysical Research Letters

2011

5Hz GPS seismology of the El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake: estimating the earthquake focal mechanism

Geophysical Journal International

2012

Buried Aseismic Slip and Off-Fault Deformation on the Southernmost San Andreas Fault triggered by the 2010 El Mayor Cucapah Earthquake revealed by UAVSAR

Unknown Venue

2021

Coal-rock Interface Recognition Based on Time Series Analysis

2010 International Conference on Computer Application and System Modeling (ICCASM 2010)

2010

A fast method for real-time anomaly detection using routing statistics

IEEE INFOCOM Workshops 2008

2008

Data mining as a foundation for science-enabling autonomy

IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine

2008

La Guardia Indígena Nasa y el Arte de la Resistencia Pacífica

Ra Ximhai

2008

Using Relocatable Bitstreams for Fault Tolerance

Second NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2007)

2007

Spatiotemporal filtering using principal component analysis and Karhunen‐Loeve expansion approaches for regional GPS network analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

2006

A community faulted-crust model using PYRAMID on cluster platforms

2004 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (IEEE Cat. No.04EX935)

Induced deformation during tunnel excavation: Evidence from geodetic monitoring

Engineering Geology

2005

Nowcasting Earthquakes:Imaging the Earthquake Cycle in California with Machine Learning

Unknown Venue

2021

Clustering Analysis Methods for GNSS Observations: A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying California's Major Faults

Unknown Venue

2021

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering / June, 2004

Los Angeles, California, United States of America

M.S., Electrical Engineering / October, 1998

Los Angeles, California, United States of America

California Institute of Technology

B.S., Computation and Neural Systems / April, 1996

Pasadena, California, United States of America

Experience

CarbonSpace Ltd

CTO / November, 2013 — Present

Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Carbon Measurement, Atmospheric Science

Head of Science / April, 2023 — October, 2023

Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Carbon Measurement, Atmospheric Science

Science Advisor / January, 2023 — March, 2023

Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Carbon Measurement, Atmospheric Science

Research Foundation City University of New York

Senior Research Staff / January, 2020 — March, 2023

Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Science (Machine Learning, GNSS, InSAR, Geophysics)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Science Team Algorithms Lead, OCO-2 Mission / March, 2013 — December, 2018

Project Management, Carbon Measurement, Uncertainty Quantification, Remote Sensing, Radiative Transfer

Group Supervisor, Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy Group / April, 2008 — November, 2014

Line Management, Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Earth Science

Senior Research Staff / May, 2000 — January, 2020

Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Earth Science, Fault Tolerant Computing

Research Staff / April, 1996 — April, 2000

Scientific Modeling, Machine Learning, Supercomputing, Imaging Systems, Fault Tolerant Computing

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