Research Scientist
qiangsun@uchicago.edu
Dr. Qiang Sun
Princeton/GFDL, Postdoctoral Researcher
Penn State University, Ph.D. Atmospheric Science
Research Scientist
gongbing@uchicago.edu
Research Scientist
pahlavan@nwra.com
Dr. Hamid Pahlavan
Personal website
Google scholar
Jointly advised by Dr. Joan Alexander at NWRA
University of Washington, Seattle, Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington, Seattle, M.S. Atmospheric Sciences
Research Scientist
katiekowal@uchicago.edu
Dr. Katie Kowal
University of Oxford, DPhil Hydrology
University of Oxford, M.Sc. Environmental Change and Management
Lewis & Clark College, B.A. Physics and Political Science
Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow
awikner@uchicago.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
jfinkel@uchicago.edu
Dr. Justin Finkle
Personal website
Google scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Postdoctoral Associate
University of Chicago, Ph.D. Computational and Applied Mathematics
Climate Systems Engineering Initiative (CSEi) Postdoctoral Fellow
jesswan@uchicago.edu
Dr. Jess Wan
Personal website
Google scholar
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
Postdoctoral Researcher
rajatm@uchicago.edu
Dr. Rajat Masiwal
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Ph.D. Atmospheric Science
Postdoctoral Researcher
karanj@uchicago.edu
Dr. Karan Jakhar
Rice University, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University, M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering
PhD Student
krucker01@uchicago.edu
Katy Rucker
University of California, Los Angeles, B.S. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, B.S. Mathematics, 2024
PhD Student
lichuan@uchicago.edu
PhD Student
aasch@uchicago.edu
PhD Student
zhixingliu@uchicago.edu
Zhixing Liu
University of California, Santa Barbara, B.S. Physics, B.S. Statistics, 2025
PhD Student
weidongli@uchicago.edu
Weidong Li
Tsinghua University, M.S. Hydrometeorology, 2025
Hohai University, B.S. Hydrology, 2022
PhD Student
plyu9@uchicago.edu
Pumeng Lyu
University of Chicago, M.S. Physics, 2021
University of Wisconsin, Madison, B.S. Applied Math, B.S. Physics, 2020
Research Staff
marchakitus@uchicago.edu
Adam Marchakitus
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