Daniel J. Varon
Principal Investigator
Daniel Varon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT. He received his PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Harvard University in 2020 and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs from 2020 to 2025. He is Model Scientist of the Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI), Co-Nested Model Scientist of the GEOS-Chem global chemical transport model, and Associate Editor for the Atmospheric Measurement Techniques journal of the European Geosciences Union.
dvaron@mit.edu
Tai-Long He
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tai-Long He is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT. His research focuses on the introduction of air pollutants and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the impact of emissions on atmospheric chemistry and climate, and the variability of emissions. He utilizes observational data, physics-based modeling, and machine learning to detect sources of air pollutants from aircraft and satellites.
tlhe@mit.edu
Kevin Gauld
Graduate Student Researcher
Kevin Gauld is a graduate student in MIT AeroAstro. Before arriving at MIT, he received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering at Caltech. His research has focused on the use of high-resolution imagery data to build environmental understanding in fields spanning robotics, medical engineering, planetary science, and astronomy. Previously, he was a science team researcher with NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission, developing geospatial corrections for downlinked images. Currently, he is developing methods for reconstruction of pollutant plumes from high resolution hyperspectral imagery.
kgauld@mit.edu