Elise Penn, Ph.D.

eliserpenn@gmail.com
Research Scientist
Zeus AI
Cambridge, MA

I am currently a research scientist at Zeus AI.

In 2025, I completed my Ph.D. at Harvard University, where I worked with Daniel Jacob using Bayesian inverse modeling of satellite observations and GEOS-Chem to constrain methane sources and sinks. I also worked with Carbon Mapper, Inc. to develop a model to estimate coal mine methane emissions at the basin- and national- scales with hyperspectral remote sensing of methane, and spent 6 months as a data science intern at Tesla for the Supercharger team.

Before graduate school, I was fortunate to work with Tracey Holloway at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at the NOAA Geophyisical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory with Larry Horowitz and Vaishali Naik, and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with Dr. Jennifer Newman.