I am a climate scientist studying climate dynamics and climate change. My research focuses on large-scale interactions in the coupled climate system, such as atmosphere-ocean interactions and tropics-extratropics teleconnections, and how these dynamic processes are coupled with the Earth's radiative responses and climate sensitivity to anthropogenic and natural forcings.
I use climate models (both complex global climate models and idealized conceptual models) and observations to better understand the fundamental physics of the coupled climate system.
2024/11 - present Assistant Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
2023 - 2024 Research Scientist, University of Colorado Boulder/CIRES
2022 - 2023 NOAA C&GC Postdoctoral Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (host: Prof. Lorenzo Polvani)
2016 - 2021 PhD, Atmospheric Sciences (concurrent MS degree in Applied Mathematics), University of Washington. (Advisors: Prof. Kyle Armour and Prof. David Battisti)
2012 - 2016 B.E. International Development Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (Advisor: Prof. Manabu Kanda)