Experience

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
Mar 2026 – present
Host: Adrian Tompkins
Research: still actively exploring — somewhere between “I know exactly what I’m doing” and “this looks interesting, let’s try it.”

Education

Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
Jan 2020 – Dec 2025
Dissertation: Mechanistic Understanding of Tropical Convective Organization and Propagation
Advisor: Giuseppe Torri
Committee: Jimy Dudhia, Yi-Leng Chen, Alison Nugent, Fei-Fei Jin
Bachelor of Science, Atmospheric Sciences
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), China
September 2015 – June 2019
Thesis: "The possible physical mechanism of tropopause height changing under Global Warming"
Advisor: Peng Liu

Research Interests

Moist thermodynamics
Cold pool dynamics
Cloud organization
Offshore propagation
Tropical cross-scale interaction
Model development & diagnostic innovation

Service & Leadership

  • AGU Fall Meeting, session convener, "Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Processes in the Maritime Continent and Indo-Pacific", 2023 – present
  • AMS Committee on Mesoscale Processes, student member, 2024 – present
  • Early Career Editor for Climate Dynamics journal's special issue, "Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Processes in the Maritime Continent and Indo-Pacific," 2025 – present

Honors & Awards

  • Honorable Mention in the Oral Presentation Category of Symposium on Cloud Physics, AMS Annual Meeting, 2025
  • FAS Research and Academic Exchange travel grant, Harvard University, 2024
  • Advanced Study Program (ASP) Graduation Visit Program (GVP) fellowship, National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR), NSF, 2024
  • Advanced Study Program (ASP) Bridge to GVP fellowship, National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR), NSF, 2023
  • Thomas A. Schroeder Award for Outstanding Student Oral Presentation, the UH Mānoa Department of Atmospheric Science’s Research Symposium, 2021
  • Cyber Infrastructure Training to Advance Climate Science Fellowship, Data Science Fellow at Hawaii Data Science Institute, NSF, 2021-2022
  • Excellent Honor Graduate Award, NUIST, China, 2019
  • Meritorious Winner, Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Application, USA, 2018
  • 1st Place Scholarship & Excellent Student Award, NUIST, China, 2016-2018