
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
Incoming Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University

Postdoc, 2023 –
Research: Ocean interbasin interaction, Paleoclimate modeling

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:
Postdoc: Tianying Liu (2023-2024, now Postdoc at Ohio State University)
Visiting PhD: Shuo Fu (2021-2023, now at National Climate Centre, China)
Undergraduate: Laura Cai (2023-2024), Emanuel Lopez Gallegos (2023-2024), Claire Andreasen (2023), Emily Nagamoto (2021-2022), Sunny Li (2021-2022), Chang Yan (2021-2022), Kushagra Ghosh (2021)