Current Team Members and Collaborators
Fiaz Ahmed (Assistant Research Scientist)
Suqin Duan, Postdoctoral Researcher (joint with Karen McKinnon’s group)
Hui Su (Professor, HKUST and Adjunct Professor, UCLA)
Mengxi Wu, Postdoctoral Researcher (joint with Hui Su’s group, Jiffresse)
Ni Dai, Postdoctoral Researcher (joint with Hui Su’s group, Jiffresse)
Yi-Hung Kuo (Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University)
Todd Emmenegger, Graduate Student
Surabhi Biyani, Graduate Student (joint with Alex Hall’s group)
Wei-Ming Tsai (looking forward to him joining us soon as Postdoctoral Researcher)
Destiny Brown, Lab Assistant
Jack Skari, Undergraduate student
Athena Bamrick, Undergraduate student
Recent Group Members, Collaborators and Affiliates
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.
