Kyle Griffin

Background

About Kyle Griffin

In the financial services space, I've built bespoke weather data processing systems for use by the full breadth of commodities trading teams, enabling analysts and traders alike. At Everstream Analytics (formerly Riskpulse, formerly EarthRisk Technologies), I worked to integrate the risk data from forecasted and historical weather into our predictive supply chain analytics tools. Risk data helps customers avoid delays, missed shipments, and spoiled goods on short- and long-haul shipments alike. Other tasks included incorporating the latest cutting-edge weather research, providing real-time recommendations to clients during high-impact disruptions to the supply chain, aiding in the development of our web-based software tools, developing and improving our machine learning models, and identifying and ingesting new sources of risk data for the platform to leverage. I earned my PhD under the advisement of Jon Martin at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, focusing on identifying variability in the North Pacific jet and the driving factors behind such variability. Emphasis was placed on examining the downstream impacts of preferred modes of variability while also identifying physical processes that preclude such variability on 1-3 week timescales. Previously, I spent five years at the University at Albany under the advisement of Lance Bosart, receiving both my undergraduate and Master's degree in Atmospheric Science. My undergraduate work focused on developing a climatology of extratropical transition of tropical cyclones in the Southwest Indian Ocean in addition to developing a handful of representative case studies. My Master's degree focused on features that led to the development of the tropical disturbance that became Tropical Cyclone Karl (2010). These features included a convectively-coupled Kelvin wave and southerly winds associated with a cold surge in the lee of the Andes, both features whose effects on tropical disturbances in the North Atlantic are infrequently documented. Papers on both of these topics are currently in preparation for Spring 2013 submission. In addition, I have also worked at the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (now Weather Prediction Center), a part of NCEP and the National Weather Service. While there as a student, I was trained on and worked both the surface analysis and short-term forecasting desks as part of regularly-schedule operational shift work during my summer and winter breaks from my undergraduate studies.