Pavel Ozhogin
Director of Data Science, National Grid
Pavel Ozhogin, National Grid
Pavel Ozhogin is a Director of Data Science at National Grid, where he leads a team that focuses on solving business problems through data-driven approaches. Pavel’s passion for finding actionable insights from data has led him to study and utilize statistics, predictive analytics, AI/machine learning, and process improvement. He applies all these techniques daily to support the transformational changes currently facing the utility industry. While analyzing satellite data and working on his Ph.D. dissertation in Atmospheric Physics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Pavel developed and validated a new model of electron densities in the Earth’s plasmasphere.
Dr. Nick Bassill
Director of NY State Weather Risk Communiation Center
Dr. Nick BAssill, Director of NY State Weather Risk Communiation Center
Dr. Nick Bassill is an atmospheric scientist with a background in numerical weather prediction, forecasting, data science/analysis, data visualization and a desire to apply those skills to emergency management and other public-sector uses of weather. His current position requires a significant amount of public outreach to organizations such as state agencies, utilities, educational entities, and others to engage them on how weather affects their operations and their stakeholders. In 2014, he joined the NYS Mesonet before they began deploying a $30M weather observing network. Afterward, Nick moved to the UAlbany Center of Excellence, where he conducted a series of research and product development projects with area utilities. Nick pushed for the creation of a publicly funded NY State Weather Risk Communication Center. This Center was successfully created in 2023, and Nick currently serves as the director while continuing his role at the Center of Excellence.
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