Caren Marzban

Caren Marzban, Ph.D.
Senior Physicist, Applied Physics Laboratory,
Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, and
Senior Research Scientist, CAPS, University of Oklahoma,
Ex-chair of the AMS Artificial Intelligence Committee.


My vitae.
My son, Ethan.
My wife's work.
My patent.
My courses: Stat220, Stat311, Stat427, Stat/Math394, Stat/Math390.
My Neural Network short course presented at American Meteorological Society Conference 2004.


Journal Articles:

Technical Reports and Unpublished Works:


Selected Conference Papers:

  • Marzban, C. 2008: Quantile Regression. Invited paper presented at the joint session between AI and Prob & Stats Conference. 88th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 20-24.

  • Marzban, C., S. Sandgathe, and H. Lyons 2007: Assessment of an automatic, object-oriented approach to the verification of spatial fields . Paper presented at 7th Euopean Meteorological Society Annual MeetingEl Escorial, Spain, October.

  • Marzban, C. 2004: Probabilistic Forecasts in Meteorology. Talk presented at a Neural Information Processing Systems, 2004, workshop on Calibration and Probabilistic Prediction in Supervised Learning. Whistler, Canada.

  • Marzban, C. 1998: Bayesian inference in neural networks. 78th meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Probability and Statistics Session, Phoenix Arizona, January.

  • Marzban, C., G. J. Stumpf, 1996: A Neural Network for Tornado and/or Severe Weather Prediction Based on Doppler Radar-derived Attributes. 10th Annual Mid-American Symposium on Emerging Computer Technologies, University of Oklahoma, October 28-29. (Top-paper Award.)

  • Marzban, C., R. Viswanathan, 1993: Stochastic Neural Networks and the Weighted Hebb Rule. Proceedings of the IJCNN conference, Nagoya, Japan.


Invited Books:

Neural Networks for Social Scientists, World Scientific Publishing (25% complete)
Neural Networks for Physicists, World Scientific Publishing (0% complete)
Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Environmental Sciences, 2007; Springer-Verlag. Co-editor and contributor to 2 chapters.


How to Contact me:

Dept. of Statistics
University of Washington
Box 354322
Seattle, WA 98195-4322
Tel: 206.685-7428
Fax: 206.685.7419
marzban at stat.washington.edu

Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Box 354322
Seattle, WA 98195-4322
Tel: 206.221.4361
Fax: 206.543.1301
marzban at apl.washington.edu

Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
University of Oklahoma
Sarkey's Energy Center, Suite 1110
Norman, OK 73019
marzban at caps.ou.edu