- Executive Bios -

Matthew S. Jones

President, CEO

Mr. Jones is an EPIC Corp. founder, and currently serves as its CEO and president. He has a background in numerical weather prediction, and specializes in optimization of mesoscale ensembles and statistical post-processing techniques. Mr. Jones received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts in Atmospheric Science, and earned his Masters from Stony Brook University in Marine and Atmospheric Science. Prior to his career at EPIC, Mr. Jones was a senior research specialist for the Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres at Stony Brook University.

Joseph B. Olson

Senior Research Scientist

Mr. Olson serves as a senior research scientist at EPIC Corporation. He is a PhD student in the Atmospheric Science Department at Stony Brook University. His research interests include the structure and evolution of coastal barrier jets, interaction of landfalling cold fronts with orography, and statistical post-processing/verification of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. He has a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Atmospheric Science from Stony Brook University. At EPIC, he develops optimization techniques that include a variety of statistical post-processing methods applied to the output of an ensemble of highly customized NWP models. Prior to his career at EPIC, Mr. Olson was an atmospheric science research assistant at Stony Brook University.

Yanluan Lin

Research Scientist / East Asia Liaison

Mr. Lin serves as a research scientist, and East Asia Liaison at EPIC Corporation. He is a PhD student in the Atmospheric Science Department at Stony Brook University. His research interests include short term numerical weather forecasting and long term regional climate forecasting, wind energy potential evaluation and operational forecasting, cloud microphysics and precipitation simulation,and aviation weather. He earned his Bachelors degree in atmospheric sciences from Ocean University of QingDao. He received his Masters from the University of Wyoming specializing in wind energy evaluation with numerical models. Prior to his association with EPIC, Mr. Lin worked as an operational weather forecaster at Fuzhou International Airport and as an atmospheric science research assistant at Stony Brook University.