BOISE, Idaho, June 5 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:

Michal Kopera, associate professor of mathematics at Boise State University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Research Fellowship to support research at the intersection of scientific computing and machine learning.

As part of this award, Kopera will spend a portion of his upcoming sabbatical, beginning in summer 2026, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Multi-Scale Estimation and Assimilation (MSEAS) Laboratory. There, he will collaborate with Professor Pierre Lermusiaux, a leading expert in ocean modeling and data-driven prediction.

The project focuses on developing machine learning algorithms for adaptive mesh r...