Ario Saeid Vaghefi

Ario Saeid Vaghefi

Ario Saeid Vaghefi is an Academic Associate at the University of Zurich, Department of Geography, and deputy director of Sustainable and Resilient Economy AI Lab SUREAL at department Finance University of Zürich. He is an AI and Climate Consultant for the World Meteorological Organization. He holds a PhD in Water Resources Management from Tehran Polytechnic, carried out in collaboration with Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and Texas A&M University, USA. After postdoctoral research in Canada and Switzerland, he transitioned into the IT industry in 2019 before returning to academia at UZH in 2020. His research focuses on the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and climate science, developing AI-driven tools that strengthen climate services and decision-making. At UZH, he leads the university’s contribution to an NCCS-Impacts project, funded by MeteoSwiss and the Federal Office for the Environment, assessing climate change impacts on multiple sectors under adaptation and non-adaptation scenarios. Ario has more than eight years of experience in** data science, model development, and scientific software engineering**, covering the full cycle from experimentation and validation to deployment and maintenance. He contributes to the ChatClimate.ai initiative at UZH’s Department of Banking and Finance, and is an affiliated researcher at Oxford’s Sustainable Finance Group. In 2024, he received the Royal Meteorological Society Innovation Award for his role in developing askWMO, an AI-powered climate knowledge assistant.

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    University of Zurich
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    Academic Associate, Department of Geography
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