Researcher

Biography

Sanaa Hobeichi is a Senior Research Associate at the Climate Change Research Centre and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the weather of the 21st Century. She is interested in applying machine learning (ML) to advance climate and weather research. Her research focuses on using ML in climate downscaling and improving the prediction of weather and climate extremes. 

Sanaa is the co-chair of the Machine Learning for Climate and Weather Community...view more

Sanaa Hobeichi is a Senior Research Associate at the Climate Change Research Centre and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the weather of the 21st Century. She is interested in applying machine learning (ML) to advance climate and weather research. Her research focuses on using ML in climate downscaling and improving the prediction of weather and climate extremes. 

Sanaa is the co-chair of the Machine Learning for Climate and Weather Community Working Group at the ACCESS-NRI

Sanaa has a background in Climate Science, Environmental Science, Applied Mathematics, and Computer Science and she is a former International Baccalaureate teacher.


My Qualifications

 

PhD Climate Science | UNSW Sydney 

MSc Environmental Sciences -  Major Remote Sensing | Qatar University

BSc Applied Mathematics - Major Computer Science | Lebanese University


My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

Machine learning applications in weather and climate


Currently supervising

Ananya Anand - Honours 
Thesis: Developing a Machine Learning model to generate high-resolution land surface temperatures for a city vulnerable to lethal heatwaves 
Supervisory Panel: Prof. Katrin Meissner,  A/Prof. Negin Nazarian, Dr. Sanaa Hobeichi, Dr. Marzie Naserikia

Husnain Asif - PhD 
Thesis: TBC 
Supervisory Panel: A/Prof. Sarah Kirkpatrick, Prof. John Taylor, Dr. Sanaa Hobeichi

 

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