Scientist
Forecast, Evaluation, Hydrology Monitoring and Forecast
Summary:
Maria Luisa Taccari is a Scientist for Data-driven Hydrological Forecasting at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), working within the Destination Earth initiative. Her work focuses on creating workflows for cutting-edge Machine Learning (ML) applications in hydrological forecasting, particularly for river discharge and water levels.
Professional interests:
- Data-driven hydrological forecasting
- Deep learning models for environmental sciences
- Integration of ML techniques with traditional hydrological models
Career background:
- BSc in Civil Engineering, University of Padova, Italy (awarded with cum laude)
- MSc in Civil Engineering, TU Delft, Netherlands (awarded with cum laude)
- Five years of industry experience as a Researcher in Flood Defences at Deltares, Netherlands
- PhD from the School of Civil Engineering and the School of Computing, with a focus on deep learning surrogate models for groundwater flow, in collaboration with Deltares as an industrial partner
- Four-month research placement at Brown University, USA, in the CRUNCH group under Professor Karniadakis
- 2024
- Maria Luisa Taccari, He Wang, Somdatta Goswami, Mario De Florio, Jonathan Nuttall, Xiaohui Chen, Peter K. Jimack (February 2024) Developing a cost-effective emulator for groundwater flow modeling using deep neural operators, Journal of Hydrology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130551
- 2023
- Taccari Maria Luisa, Ovadia Oded, Wang He, Kahana Adar, Chen Xiaohui, Jimack Peter K (May 2023) Understanding the Efficacy of U-Net & Vision Transformer for Groundwater Numerical Modelling, arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.04010.
- 2022
- (May 2022) Attention U-Net as a surrogate model for groundwater prediction, Advances in Water Resources. DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104169
- 2021
- (May 2021) Daily runoff forecasting by deep recursive neural network, Journal of Hydrology.
- 2019
- (May 2019) Large scale triaxial compression tests on three peat samples from Eemdijk, the Netherlands.
- (May 2019) Resilience of Road Embankments Under Changing Climate: A Numerical Study, XXVIth World Road Congress 2019.
- 2018
- (May 2018) Monitoring and Forecasting of saddle dams and main dam on Bhadra reservoir (India), Field Measurements in Geomechanics 2018.
- 2017
- (May 2017) A field experiment with fibre optics detecting groundwater flow and piping behind a summer dike, 85th Annual Meeting of International Commission on Large Dams, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2016
- (May 2016) Study of the effect of burrows of European Badgers (Meles meles) on the initiation of breaching in dikes, E3S Web of Conferences.
- (May 2016) Investigation of the influence of animal burrowing on the failure of the levee of San Matteo along the Secchia river, E3S Web of Conferences.
- 2015
- (May 2015) Study upon the possible influence of animal burrows on the failure of the levee of San Matteo along the Secchia River.
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