Dr. Pedram Hassanzadeh
Group Director, Associate Professor
pedramh@uchicago.edu
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University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, 2013
University of California at Berkeley, M.A. Mathematics, 2012
University of Waterloo, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2007
University of Tehran, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2005
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Dr. Qiang Sun
Research Scientist
qiangsun@uchicago.edu
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Princeton/GFDL, Postdoctoral Researcher
Penn State University, Ph.D. Atmospheric Science
Dr. Hamid Pahlavan
Research Scientist
pahlavan@uchicago.edu
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Jointly advised by Dr. Joan Alexander at NWRA
University of Washington, Seattle, Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington, Seattle, M.S. Atmospheric Sciences
Dr. Alex Wikner
Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow
awikner@uchicago.edu
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University of Maryland, College Park, Ph.D. Physics
Dr. Katie Kowal
Research Scientist
katiekowal@uchicago.edu
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University of Oxford, DPhil Hydrology
University of Oxford, M.Sc. Environmental Change and Management
Lewis & Clark College, B.A. Physics and Political Science
Dr. Rajat Masiwal
Postdoctoral Researcher
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Ph.D. Atmospheric Science
Dr. Bing Gong
Research Scientist
gongbing@uchicago.edu
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Technical University of Madrid, Spain, Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Justin Finkle
Postdoctoral Fellow
jfinkel@uchicago.edu
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Postdoctoral Associate
University of Chicago, Ph.D. Computational and Applied Mathematics
Dr. Jess Wan
Climate Systems Engineering Initiative (CSEi) Postdoctoral Fellow
jesswan@uchicago.edu
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Ph.D. Earth Sciences, 2025
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, M.S. Oceanography, 2021
Cornell University, B.S. Environment & Sustainability, 2020
Katy Rucker
PhD Student
krucker01@uchicago.edu
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University of California, Los Angeles, B.S. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, B.S. Mathematics, 2024
Lichuan Xu
PhD Student
lichuan@uchicago.edu
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University of California, Berkeley, B.A. Physics, B.A. Mathematics, 2023
Weidong Li
PhD Student
weidongli@uchicago.edu
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Tsinghua University, M.S. Hydrometeorology, 2025
Hohai University, B.S. Hydrology, 2022
Pumeng Lyu
PhD Student
plyu9@uchicago.edu
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University of Chicago, M.S. Physics, 2021
University of Wisconsin, Madison, B.S. Applied Math, B.S. Physics, 2020
Zhixing Liu
PhD Student
zhixingliu@uchicago.edu
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University of California, Santa Barbara, B.S. Physics, B.S. Statistics, 2025
Antonia Baies
PhD Student
University of Chicago, M.S. Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2026
École Polytechnique, B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, 2024
Adam Marchakitus
Research Staff
marchakitus@uchicago.edu
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University of Chicago, B.S. Environmental Science, B.S. Data Science, 2025
Former Members
Dr. Ashesh Chattopadhyay
PhD student (Fall 2017-Fall 2022)
Thesis: Theoretical and applied deep learning for turbulence
Next position: Assistant Professor of Applied Math, UC Santa Cruz
Dr. Ebrahim Nabizadeh
PhD student (Fall 2017-Fall 2022)
Thesis: Variability and dynamics of atmospheric blocking events under climate change
Next position: ML scientist at Verisk
Dr. Sandro Lubis
Postdoctoral fellow (2019-2022)
Next position: Research scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL)
Dr. Lei Wang
Postdoctoral fellow (2017-2018)
Next position: Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Purdue University
Dr. Yifei Guan
Postdoctoral fellow (2020-2024)
Next position: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Union College
Dr. Rambod Mojgani
Postdoctoral fellow (2021-2024)
Next position: now ML research engineer at industry
Dr. Amin Khodkar
Postdoctoral fellow (2017-2019)
Next position: Postdoc at UCLA, now data scientist at industry
Dr. Cedric Gillmann
Postdoctoral fellow (2021-2023)
Next position: Senior researcher at ETH
Dr. Maxime Maurice
Postdoctoral fellow (2021-2023)
Next position: scientist at LMD, IPSL
David Lee
MS student (Fall 2018-Spring 2020)
Thesis: Reduced-order modeling of turbulent plane Couette flow using the Green’s function method and fluctuation-dissipation theorem
Next position: USAF pilot
Moein Darman
MS student (Fall 2022-Sumer 2024)
Thesis: Explainable transfer learning for turbulence closure modeling
Next position: PhD student at UC Santa Cruz
Adam Subel
Undergraduate researcher (2018-2021), Rice MECH/CAAM undergraduate student
Next position: PhD student at Courant Institute (NYU). While a student at Rice, Adam won an NSF GRP Fellowship and received the Distinguished Research Excellence Award from the Rice Engineering Alumni.
Joey Lou
Undergraduate researcher (2018-2019), Rice MECH/CAAM undergraduate student
Next position: Graduate student at UC Berkeley
Sebastian Jia
Undergraduate researcher (Summer 2017), Rice MECH undergraduate student
Next position: Graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania
Andy Corbato
Undergraduate researcher (2018-2019), Rice MECH undergraduate student
Next position: Systems engineer, DMC
Vincent Gonzales
Undergraduate researcher (Summer 2018), Rice CAAM undergraduate student
Next position: BA student, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
Arthi Appathurai
Visiting researcher (2017-2018), Rice CHBE graduate student
Next position: Application Engineer at Advanced CAE
Chris Winkler
Teacher intern (Summer 2022), Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District
Janet Jiang
Visiting researcher (Summer 2019), High school student
Prithika Sen
Visiting researcher (Summer 2019), High school student
Olivia Ye
Visiting researcher (Summer 2022), High school student