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Group Members

Andrew Stewart (curriculum vitae)

Professor

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
7162 Math Sciences Building
(310) 825 1751

See this informative music video, thanks to Ken Zhao (with some assistance from ChatGPT, Suno and DALL-E).

Huaiyu Wei

Huaiyu Wei

Postdoctoral researcher

Email: hywei@atmos.ucla.edu

Research interests: Meridional overturning circulation, Machine learning, and Mesoscale eddy parameterizations

Kaylie Cohanim

Kaylie Cohanim

Graduate student

Email: kayliec23@gmail.com

Research interests: ocean dynamics, ocean modeling, submesoscale processes, ice-ocean interactions

Garrett Finucane

Garrett Finucane

Graduate student

Email: gdf@g.ucla.edu

Website: https://garrettfinucane.com/

Sunny Yeh

Graduate student (co-advised by Jim McWilliams)

Email: sunnyyeh@ucla.edu

Website: https://sunnyyeh3725.github.io/

Research interests: Ocean Dynamics, Oceanic geophysical flows, Ocean circulation, Ocean modeling

Aisha Mardini

Aisha Mardini

Undergraduate researcher

Email: aishamardini@g.ucla.edu

Research interests: Machine learning and ocean modeling

Reid Mendoza

Undergraduate researcher

Email: reidmendoza22@g.ucla.edu

Research interests: Machine learning, meridional overturning circulation

Annika Renganathan

Annika Renganathan

Undergraduate researcher

Email: annikavr@g.ucla.edu

Research interests: ocean dynamics and mathematical modeling

Selena Yu

Selena Yu

Undergraduate researcher

Email: selenayu@ucla.edu

Research interests: ocean modeling, Meridional Overturning Circulation

Former Group Members

Madeleine Youngs

Postdoctoral researcher, Jan 2023-Dec 2024

Yan Wang

Postdoctoral researcher, Jan 2016-Aug 2018

Rubin Xia

Visiting researcher, Sep 2019-Aug 2020

Aviv Solodoch (PhD 2020)

PhD student & postdoctoral researcher, Sep 2014-Jun 2023

Yidongfang (Clara) Si (PhD 2023)

PhD student, Sep 2018-Jun 2023

Jordyn Moscoso (PhD 2022)

PhD student, Oct 2016-Jun 2022

Ken Zhao (PhD 2021)

PhD student, Apr 2016-Dec 2021

Julia Hazel (PhD 2019)

PhD student, Apr 2015-Sep 2019

Mathieu Morvan

Visiting graduate researcher, May 2016-Aug 2016

Alex Akin

Undergraduate researcher, Apr 2024-Jun 2025

Sophia Spungin

Undergraduate researcher, Jan 2022-Jan 2025

Mia Thorp

Undergraduate researcher, Jan 2024-Nov 2024

Wyatt Cottriel

Undergraduate researcher, Jan 2023-Jun 2024

Eliza Lerman

Undergraduate researcher, Jan 2024-Jun 2024

Emily Murrell

Undergraduate researcher, Jan 2023-Jun 2024

Jackson Wilke

Undergraduate researcher, Aug 2020-Aug 2023

Jennifer Kosty

Undergraduate researcher, Aug 2020-Aug 2023

Carlyn Schmidgall

Undergraduate/post-undergraduate researcher, Jan 2019-May 2022

Xiaoyang Chi

Undergraduate researcher, Apr 2020-Jun 2021

Yue (Luna) Bai

Undergraduate researcher, Apr 2017-Aug 2020

Kaylie Cohanim

Undergraduate researcher, Apr 2018-Jul 2020

Kitty Wang

Undergraduate researcher, Sep 2018-Jun 2019

Tanya Arcienega

Undergraduate researcher, Apr 2018-Mar 2019

Truc Pham

Undergraduate researcher, Apr 2018-Nov 2018

Josslyn Cai

Undergraduate researcher, Jan 2017-Mar 2018

Zhao Xu

Undergraduate research assistant, Aug 2015-Jun 2016

Victor Ciaramitaro

Summer research intern, May 2016-Aug 2016

Jeff Xu

High school research intern, Jun 2017-Aug 2017