Environmental Data Analysis and Simulation

BEE 4850/5850
Spring 2026
Cornell University

This course focuses on probabilistic modeling of environmental data-generating processes, including simulation methods and model evaluation and selection.

Instructor

Vivek Srikrishnan
vs498@cornell.edu
318 Riley-Robb Hall

TA

Course details

MWF
11:15-12:05
401 Riley-Robb Hall

Contacting staff

(Instructor) M 1-2, T 4-5
(TA) MW 4:15-5:15
Ed Discussion

Software Tools

I will teach this course using the Julia programming language. Julia is a modern, free, open source language which is designed for scientific computing. No prior knowledge of Julia is required. My recommendation is to use Visual Studio Code with the official Julia extension for coding. However, you can use any programming language you would like to complete the assignments and the final project.
Assignments will be distributed using GitHub Classroom. You should create a GitHub account, but we will walk through how to use it.