I’m a first year PhD student in Physical Oceanography at the University of Washington, advised by Georgy Manucharyan. My current research is focused on advancing seasonal sea ice breakup modeling.

I graduated from Missouri S&T summa cum laude in May 2024 with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics. Before coming to the University of Washington, I was involved with applied math and machine learning research projects at Missouri S&T and the University of Missouri, as well as a brief stint as a software engineering intern at United Launch Alliance (ULA) working on Vulcan Centaur.

My work is an amalgamation of applied mathematics, software engineering and environmental science.

In my free time I also love rock climbing and mountaineering!

Links

Contact: makov@uw.edu
Personal Blog: Above the Bolt
CV

Research Interests

• Sea Ice Dynamics
• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
• Deep Learning
• Inverse Problems

Publications

Explosive hazard pre-screener based on simulated data with perfect annotation and imprecisely labeled real data
SPIE Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Sensing ‘22 Madeline Kovaleski, Aaron Fuller, Jeffrey Kerley, Brendan J. Alvey, Peter Popescu, Derek Anderson, Andrew Buck, James Keller, Grant Scott, Clare Yang, Ken E. Yasuda, Hollie A. Ryan

Procedurally generated simulated datasets for aerial explosive hazard detection
SPIE Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Sensing ‘22 Jeffrey Kerley, Aaron Fuller, Madeline Kovaleski, Peter Popescu, Brendan Alvey, Derek T. Anderson, Andrew Buck, James M. Keller, Grant Scott, Clare Yang, Ken E. Yasuda, Hollie A. Ryan