Robert G. Hallowell

Robert G. Hallowell is a technical staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in their Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Systems Group. He is currently working on the United States Agency for International Development Supply Chain Management program by managing the Intelligent Commodity Dashboard, which visualizes the entire supply chain process from purchase to delivery. Previously, Hallowell led the National Hurricane Program Technology Modernization which includes HURREVAC-Extended (HVX) and the Real-Time Evacuation Planning Model. HVX was awarded an R&D 100 Award in 2018 and has transitioned to an operational Federal Emergency Management Agency. The storm simulation portion of that system received an outstanding achievement award at the 2022 National Hurricane conference.

Hallowell has worked as an applied researcher for Lincoln Laboratory for more than 35 years and focuses on meteorological hazard algorithms and decision support systems. His career started with the Federal Aviation Administration Terminal Doppler Weather Radar where he developed algorithms to detect and alert air traffic controllers and pilots about hazardous wind-shear and extended into convective weather, ceiling, and visibility forecasting and in-flight icing detection. Hallowell has also developed winter maintenance decision support systems to assist in roadway snow and ice removal. He also led the NATO-SPS (Science for Peace and Security) Next-Generation Incident Command System initiative in 2017 and 2018. Hallowell received a BS degree in meteorology from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and holds several patents related to convective weather forecasting algorithms.