I’m a second year graduate student in Physical Oceanography at the University of Washington, advised by Georgy Manucharyan. My current research is focused on discrete element modeling of coastal sea and lake ice.

I graduated from Missouri S&T summa cum laude in May 2024 with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics. Before studying at the University of Washington, I was involved in 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.

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

Links

Contact: makov@uw.edu
Personal Blog: Above the Bolt
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Topics I’m Interested In

• Sea Ice Dynamics
• Discrete Element Modeling
• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Active Projects

• Sea Ice Dynamics

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