Jennifer Paige

Program Year:

University:

University of California, Davis

Field of Study:

Applied Mathematics

Advisor:

Alan Hastings

Degree(s):

B.A. Mathematics and B.A. Educational Studies, Swarthmore College, 2022

Personal URL:

https://jennifernpaige.github.io

Practicum Experience(s)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2025)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

Peter

Caldwell

Practicum Title:

Further Enhancement of the Automated Calibration of the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2024)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

Peter

Caldwell

Practicum Title:

Automated Calibration of the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM)

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Fellow Poster

: A Spatial Understanding of Coral Dynamics Under Multiple Stressors (

2024

)

Publications

• Paige, J., Caldwell, P., Beydoun, H., Hannah, W., Rebassoo, F., Mahfouz, N., Keen, N.,
Elsaesser, G., Bertagna, L., Bogenschutz, P., Collins, G., Donahue, A., Golaz, J.-C., Guba,
O., Hillman, B., Lee, J., Lin, W., Ma, H.-Y., Salinger, A., Shand, L., Terai, C., & Wagman,
B. Machine Learning for Optimized Tuning of the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere
Model (SCREAM). Submitted. Preprint: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.15006793/v2
• Paige, J., Patterson, D., & Hastings, A. (2026). Towards a unified framework for multiple
stable states in ecological systems. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, in press.
• Balstad LJ, Brennan J, ... Paige, J. ... et al. (2026). Eight quick tips for data-model integration
in ecology. PLOS Computational Biology 22(7): e1014524. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014524.
• Bhaskar, D., MacDonald, K., Thomas, D., Zhao, S., You, K., Paige, J., Aizenbud, Y., Adelstein,
I., & Krishnaswamy, S. (2022). Diffusion-based methods for estimating curvature in data. ICLR
2022 Workshop on Geometrical and Topological Representation Learning. openreview.net/pdf
• Renninger, K. A., Elias, Ruth. C., Kamiya, M. J., Paige, J. N., & Youngblood, R. A. (2024). PD
supporting CS and math integration: implications of teacher interest and confidence for workshop
design. Computer Science Education, 35(1), 93–122. doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2024.2433334.

Awards

2022 NSF NRT Sustainable Oceans Trainee
2025 Hazel B. Jacoby Fellow
2022 Heinrich W. Brinkmann Mathematics Prize recipient- for outstanding performance in the field and exemplary services to the Swarthmore Mathematics Department
2018 Los Alamos Employees Scholarship Fund Bronze Scholarship Recipient
Sigma Xi member