{"id":37,"date":"2020-09-04T21:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nike.atmos.ucla.edu\/henry\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:34:34","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/rongfu\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Principal Investigator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rong Fu<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Professor of AOS<\/a>
Director of JIFRESSE<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Education:<\/strong>
Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, Columbia University in New York City (1991)
B.S, Geophysics, Peking University (1984)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appointment:<\/strong>
2021\u2013present: Director, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE), UCLA
2016\u2013present: Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
2019\u20132021: Vice Chair, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
2016\u20132021: Associate Director, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE), UCLA
2008\u20132016: Professor, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
1999\u20132008: Associate Professor, School of Earth Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
1994\u20131999: Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Arizona<\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Postdoc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Yizhou Zhuang<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Education:<\/strong>
Ph.D., Meteorology, Peking University (2019)
B.S., Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Area:<\/strong>
Drought; fire weather; convection; attribution; machine learning application<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Email:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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zhuangyz@atmos.ucla.edu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Siyu Zhao<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Education:<\/strong>
Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology (2019)
B.S., Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University (2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Area:<\/strong>
Hydroclimate; atmospheric dynamics; climate variability; air-sea interaction; seasonal forecast<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Email:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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siyu_zhao@atmos.ucla.edu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Yizhou Zhuang<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Education:<\/strong>
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2021)
M.S., Meteorology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016)
B.S., Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University (2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Area:<\/strong>
Ecohydrology, hydrometeorology, remote sensing, vegetation dynamics, data assimilation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Email:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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zhjiay5@illinois.edu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ph.D. Student<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sarah Worden<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

B.S., Physics, B.A., Music Performance; University of California, Los Angeles (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas:<\/strong>
Tropical rainforest dynamics, land-atmosphere interactions, carbon and water cycle coupling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:<\/strong> sarahw27@ucla.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alex Chang<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

B.A., Applied Mathematics and Data Science; University of California, Berkeley (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas:<\/strong>
High-resolution climate modeling, climate extremes, tropical cyclones, atmospheric rivers, precipitation processes, droughts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:<\/strong> achang1029@g.ucla.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Annie Rosen<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

B.A., Mathematics; University of California, Berkeley (2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas:<\/strong>
Compound Extreme Weather Events & Climate Model Evaluation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:<\/strong> annierosen16@g.ucla.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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M.S. Student<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate Student<\/h2>\n\n\n\n