
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
Postdoctoral researcher
Email: hywei@atmos.ucla.edu
Research interests: Meridional overturning circulation, Machine learning, and Mesoscale eddy parameterizations

Kaylie Cohanim
Graduate student
Email: kayliec23@gmail.com
Research interests: ocean dynamics, ocean modeling, submesoscale processes, ice-ocean interactions

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
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
Undergraduate researcher
Email: annikavr@g.ucla.edu
Research interests: ocean dynamics and mathematical modeling

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