Summary
Thomas Vandal is a scientist, CEO and co-founder of Zeus AI, based in Cambridge, MA, building foundation models for Earth observations. He operates at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, Earth science, and high-performance computing to unlock insights from spatio-temporal Earth data for climate mitigation and adaptation. His work spans novel deep learning methods for atmospheric wind, climate downscaling, emulation, virtual sensing, and cloud tracking. He has led NASA SBIR Phase I/II projects predicting 3D atmospheric structure from geostationary satellites, demonstrating a strong move from research to deployment. With a PhD from Northeastern and a B.S. from the University of Maryland, he has over a decade of experience across NASA, research institutes and industry, including roles at NASA Ames, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, and Affectiva, shaping a track record of turning challenging Earth-science data into scalable AI solutions.
11 years of coding experience