Assistant Professor
Research: Climate dynamics, Air-sea interaction, Past and future climate changes
Postdoc, 2022 –
Research: Ocean salinity, ENSO, snow
Postdoc (co-mentored by William Pan), 2022 –
Research: Atmospheric river, Climate-malaria link
Xiang Li
Postdoc, 2023 –
Research: Ocean interbasin interaction, Paleoclimate modeling
Tianying Liu
Postdoc, 2023 –
Research: Atmospheric river
Suqiong Hu
Postdoc (incoming), 2024 –
Research: Extratropical air-sea interactions
Ph.D. Student, 2021 –
Research: Tropical ocean warming pattern
Tian Xu
Ph.D. Student, 2022 –
Research: Glacial cycle, Land warming pattern
Hana Kawashima
Ph.D. Student (incoming), 2024 –
Research: Abrupt climate change
Xinyi Zhou
Master Student, 2024 –
Research: Climate in Southeast US vs Southeast China
Julia Kourelakos
Undergraduate Student, Class of 2025, Climate Science Scholarship
Research: Hawaiian rainfall
Yiwen Zhang
Visiting Ph.D. Student (Fudan University), 2022 –
Research: Southern Ocean, Sea level
Haoyu Wang
Visiting Ph.D. Student (Institute of Oceanology), 2023 –
Research: Observation-informed future climate projection
Xiao Ma
Visiting Ph.D. Student (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), 2023 –
Research: Atlantic barrier layer
Yichuan Huang
Undergraduate student at UW-Madison, 2024 –
Research: Island climate
Group alumni:
Laura Cai (UG, 2023-2024) Reconstruction of ocean surface winds
Emanuel Lopez Gallegos (UG, 2023-2024) Caribbean rainfall
Claire Andreasen (UG, 2023) ENSO and wildfires
Emily Nagamoto (UG, 2021-2022) Southeast US warming hole
Sunny Li (UG, 2021-2022) Southeast US warming hole
Chang Yan (UG, 2021-2022) Reconstruction of ocean surface winds
Kushagra Ghosh (UG, 2021) Reconstruction of ocean surface winds
Shuo Fu (Visiting PhD, 2021-2023) Tropical Pacific warming pattern