Scott M. Collis

Scott M. Collis is a Senior Fellow at the Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE) and head of the Geospatial Computing, Innovations, and Sensing (GCIS) department in the Environmental Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. His research focuses on the intersection of data informatics, atmospheric science, and radar meteorology.

Dr. Collis is an observationalist and open source evangelist with expertise in AI and exploration of edge computing and advanced wireless technologies. He uses and develops open-source tools to extract geophysical insight from remotely sensed data at scale, enabling deeper understanding of atmospheric phenomena for next-generation climate models.

Dr. Collis serves as director of the Argonne Testbed for Multiscale Observational Science (ATMOS), a field site developing new technologies for understanding Earth from bedrock to stratosphere. He is the inventor of the Python-ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), an open-source architecture for weather radar data with tens of thousands of global downloads.

His scientific awards include:

• Popular Science magazine's 'Brilliant 10' (2013)
• 2019 NAISE Fellow of the Year

Dr. Collis chairs the Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Programming Languages of Open Science and edits the American Meteorological Society journal 'AI in the Earth Sciences.' He acts as Translator for Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility's Radar systems and leads the Measurement Strategy Team for CROCUS, a DOE Urban Integrated Field Laboratory. He is a frequent media commentator on weather and climate issues, appearing regularly on WTTW and WBEZ in Chicago.