Dr Andrew Zammit-Mangion receives the prestigious 2020 Abdel El-Shaarawi Early Investigator Award from The International Environmetrics Society (TIES)
The Award Committee (established as a separate committee by the TIES board and chaired by Giovanna Jona Lasinio) unanimously awarded the Abdel El-Shaarawi Early Investigator Award 2020 edition to Andrew Zammit-Mangion. The Award Committee took this decision in virtue of Andrew’s relevant interdisciplinary work in Environmental Statistics and in the development of important computational instruments for space-time data analysis. The committee has also recognized Andrew’s active involvement in the Society. Andrew Zammit-Mangion is a well-deserved recipient.
Andrew Zammit-Mangion is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Senior Research Fellow with the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics at the University of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, Australia. His interests lie in statistical spatio-temporal models and the inferential tools that enable them, and has recently been exploring the use of deep learning in modelling spatio-temporal phenomena. His work is largely motivated by environmental applications, and his current research projects include the assessment of the Antarctic contribution to sea-level rise, and the quantification of sources and sinks of greenhouse gases using remote sensing (satellite) data. Andrew is currently a member of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) Science Team, and in 2019 he published a co-authored book with Christopher Wikle and Noel Cressie on spatio-temporal modelling with R. Andrew has also won awards in the past from the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the National Academy of Sciences of the US.