Current Team Members and Collaborators
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Fiaz Ahmed (Assistant Research Scientist)
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Suqin Duan, Postdoctoral Researcher (joint with Karen McKinnon’s group)
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Hui Su (Professor, HKUST and Adjunct Professor, UCLA)
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Mengxi Wu, Postdoctoral Researcher (joint with Hui Su’s group, Jiffresse)
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Ni Dai, Postdoctoral Researcher (joint with Hui Su’s group, Jiffresse)
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Yi-Hung Kuo (Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University)
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Todd Emmenegger, Graduate Student
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Surabhi Biyani, Graduate Student (joint with Alex Hall’s group)
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Wei-Ming Tsai (looking forward to him joining us soon as Postdoctoral Researcher)
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Destiny Brown, Lab Assistant
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Jack Skari, Undergraduate student
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Athena Bamrick, Undergraduate student
Recent Group Members, Collaborators and Affiliates
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The Model Diagnostics Task Force Leads Team: link to MDTF Framework Team people page
Some former members of the research group and their current/recent affiliation
Former Graduate Students
Jia-yuh Yu (PhD, 1994) — Professor and Chair of Atmospheric Sciences, Natural Culture University, Taiwan
Chia Chou (PhD, 1997) — Academia Sinica, Taiwan (Deceased)
Hsin-Hsin Syu (PhD, 1997) — (No longer in research)
Wenjie Weng (PhD, 1998) — Researcher, Motorola
Mark Roulston (PhD 2000; CalTech, co-advised) — Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Johnny W.-B. Lin (PhD 2000) — Associate Teaching Professor, UW Bothell (Prev. Associate Professor, North Park University)
Katrina Hales (PhD 2005) — Lecturer, CSU Channel Islands
Chris Holloway (PhD 2009) — Associate Professor, University Reading, UK
Tyler Ruff (MSc 2011) — Commodity Weather Group, Washington, DC
Diana Bernstein (PhD 2014, HUJI) — Assistant Professor, Marine Science, U. Southern Mississippi
Baird Langenbrunner (PhD 2015) — Research Analyst, Global Energy Monitor (recent: Associate Editor, Nature Climate Change)
Xuan Ji (PhD 2016, co-advised) — Senior analyst, Union Bank
Kevin Quinn (PhD 2017) — Northrup-Grumman
Kathleen Schiro (PhD 2017) — Assistant Professor, U Virginia Yi-Hung Kuo (PhD 2021) — Postdoctoral researcher, Princeton University/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Former Postdoctoral Researchers/Assistant Researchers
Cristian Martinez-Villalobos — Assistant Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, (Chile)
Baird Langenbrunner — (see above)
Sandeep Sahany — Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Sam Stechmann — Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Baijun Tian — Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ole Peters — Resident Fellow, Founder & Ergodicity Economics project lead, London Mathematical Laboratory
Benjamin Lintner — Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Matthias Münnich— Senior Scientist, ETH Zürich, Dept. of Environmental Systems Science
Roel Neggers — Professor, University of Cologne, Germany
Hui Su, — Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (prev. Principal Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Asst. Director, JIFRESSE, UCLA)
Duane Waliser — Chief Scientist, Earth Science/Tech. Directorate, Jet Propulsion Lab
Jiayan Yang — Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Fei-Fei Jin — Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bruno Blanke— Directeur de recherche CNRS au Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS) de Brest
Selected photos etc. from previous group webpages/activities
Photo credits (where needed): Image of clouds on globe – NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.