Advisor
Advisor

Biography

Chitra Sivaraman started at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 1999 and is the manager for projects funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program, the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), Building Technologies Office, and the Vehicle Technologies Office. 

Sivaraman serves the role of project manager for a team that develops software and web portals to collect, monitor, process, disseminate, and apply advanced physics-based and machine learning algorithms to time-series data to optimize operations and predict maintenance. The team has experience managing data using cloud and on-premises resources and engages with a diverse group of stakeholders to provide the highest quality data to its users. The various data portals can be accessed using the following links:

As manager, Sivaraman makes sure tasks and projects have clear scope, schedule, and resource requirements. She also confirms that projects are adequately planned, technically sound, risks are addressed, and results are delivered on schedule. 

Her research interests are in the areas of scientific data management and development of advanced derived products using physics-based algorithms and artificial intelligence influence to fulfill unmet measurement needs and to represent this data in models.

Research Interest

  • Project management software
  • Scientific data management
  • Software development

Education

  • BS in economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Affiliations and Professional Service

  • Data Strategy Advisor, WPTO (2022–present)
  • Committee Member, Interagency Ocean Observing Committee – Open Ocean Cloud Working Group (2022–present)
  • Co-Organizer, DOE Data Days Workshop (2022, 2023, and 2024)

Publications

2023

  • Naqvi S., V. Chandan, S. Bhattacharya, N. Luo, K. Kar, C. Sivaraman, and N. Radhakrishnan. 2023. "Data-Driven Co-optimization of Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality in Commercial Buildings." In e-Energy '23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, June 20-23, 2023, Orlando, FL, 140-144. New York, New York:Association for Computing Machinery. PNNL-SA-183755. doi:10.1145/3599733.3600262

2021

  • Lansing C.S., M.S. Levin, C. Sivaraman, R. Fao, and F. Driscoll. 2021. "Tsdat: An Open-Source Data Standardization Framework for Marine Energy and Beyond." In OCEANS 2021, September 20-23, San Diego, CA, 1-6. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-164526. doi:10.23919/OCEANS44145.2021.9706101
  • Ruehl K., M.B. Topper, M. Faltas, C. Sivaraman, C.S. Lansing, J. Weers, and F. Driscoll. 2021. "Introducing PRIMRE’s MRE Software Knowledge Hub." In Proceedings the 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2021), September 5-9, 2021, Virtual, Online, 2178-1 - 2178-9. Plymouth:European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference Series. PNNL-SA-166441.
  • White R., K. Munch, N. Wunder, N. Guba, C. Sivaraman, K.M. Van Allsburg, and H. Dinh, et al. 2021. "Energy Material Network Data Hubs: Software Platforms for Advancing Energy Materials Research." International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 12, no. 6:657-667. PNNL-SA-166418. doi:10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120677

2020

  • Bilbrey J.A., E.F. Ramirez, J.M. Brandi-Lozano, C. Sivaraman, J. Short, I.D. Lewis, and B.D. Barnes, et al. 2020. "Improving Radiograph Analysis Throughput through Transfer Learning and Object Detection." Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence 3. PNNL-SA-149813. doi:10.21037/jmai-20-2

2019

  • Shaw W.J., L.K. Berg, J. Cline, C. Draxl, I.V. Djalalova, E. Grimit, and J.K. Lundquist, et al. 2019. "The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP 2): General Overview." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100, no. 9:1687-1699. PNNL-SA-139061. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0036.1

2016

  • Lim K., L.D. Riihimaki, J.M. Comstock, B. Schmid, C. Sivaraman, Y. Shi, and G. McFarquhar. 2016. "Evalution of long-term surface-retrieved cloud-droplet number concentration with in situ aircraft observations." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 121, no. 5:2318-2331. PNNL-SA-111765. doi:10.1002/2015JD024082
  • Stephan E.G., T.O. Elsethagen, L.K. Berg, M.C. Macduff, P.R. Paulson, W.J. Shaw, and C. Sivaraman, et al. 2016. "Semantic Catalog of Things, Services, and Data to Support a Wind Data Management Facility." Information Systems Frontiers 18, no. 4:679-691. PNNL-SA-100267. doi:10.1007/s10796-015-9546-5

2015

  • Parworth C., J.D. Fast, F. Mei, T.R. Shippert, C. Sivaraman, A. Tilp, and T. Watson, et al. 2015. "Long-term Measurements of Submicrometer Aerosol Chemistry at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) Using an Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM)." Atmospheric Environment 106. PNNL-SA-106218. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.01.060

2014

2013

  • Kassianov E.I., C.J. Flynn, A.S. Koontz, C. Sivaraman, and J.C. Barnard. 2013. "Failure and Redemption of Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (MFRSR)/Normal Incidence Multifilter Radiometer (NIMFR) Cloud Screening: Contrasting Algorithm Performance at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) North Slope of Alaska (NSA) and Southern Great Plains (SGP) Sites." Atmosphere 4, no. 3:299-314. PNNL-SA-95655. doi:10.3390/atmos4030299
  • Stephan E.G., T.O. Elsethagen, A.S. Wynne, C. Sivaraman, M.C. Macduff, L.K. Berg, and W.J. Shaw. 2013. "A Linked Fusion of Things, Services, and Data to Support a Collaborative Data Management Facility." In 9th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (Collaboratecom 2013), October 20-23, 2013, Austin, Texas, 579-584. Austin, :ICST, the Institute for Computer science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. PNNL-SA-98507. doi:10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2013.254158
  • Thorsen T.J., Q. Fu, J.M. Comstock, C. Sivaraman, M.A. Vaughan, D. Winker, and D.D. Turner. 2013. "Macrophysical Properties of Tropical Cirrus Clouds from the CALIPSO Satellite and from Ground-based Micropulse and Raman Lidars." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 118, no. 16:9209-9220. PNNL-SA-95509. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50691

2011

  • Dupont J., M. Haeffelin, Y. Morille, J.M. Comstock, C.J. Flynn, C.N. Long, and C. Sivaraman, et al. 2011. "Cloud properties derived from two lidars over the ARM SGP site." Geophysical Research Letters 38. PNNL-SA-76764. doi:10.1029/2010GL046274
  • Paulson P.R., T.E. Carroll, C. Sivaraman, P.A. Neorr, S.D. Unwin, and S.S. Hossain. 2011. "Simplifying Probability Elicitation and Uncertainty Modeling in Bayesian Networks." In Proceedings of the 22nd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS 2011), April 16-17, 2011, Cincinnati, OH, edited by S Visa, A Inoue and AL Ralescu, 114-119. Madison, Wisconsin:Omnipress. PNNL-SA-77781.

2009

  • Newsom R.K., D.D. Turner, B. Mielke, M.F. Clayton, R. Ferrare, and C. Sivaraman. 2009. "Simultaneous analog and photon counting detection for Raman lidar." Applied Optics 48, no. 20:3903-3914. PNNL-SA-62493.

2007

  • Whelan G., W.D. Millard, G.M. Gelston, T.P. Khangaonkar, M.A. Pelton, D.L. Strenge, and Z. Yang, et al. 2007. "Using FRAMES to Manage Environmental and Water Resources." In Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007: Restoring our Natural Habitat, May 15-19, 2007, Tampa, Florida, USA, edited by Karen C. Kabbes. Reston, Virginia:American Society of Civil Engineers. PNNL-SA-53354. doi:10.1061/40927(243)130

2006

  • Whelan G., W.D. Millard, G.M. Gelston, M.A. Pelton, Z. Yang, D.L. Strenge, and C. Lee, et al. 2006. Rapid Risk Assessment: FY05 Annual Summary Report. PNNL-15697. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Rapid Risk Assessment: FY05 Annual Summary Report

2002