Bio

Research and Training

2023-present: Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University
Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME), Stanford University
2021 - 2023: Assistant Professor, Princeton University
2018 - 2020: Lamont Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University Mentors: Jonathan Kingslake, Tim Creyts, Roger Buck
2015 Summer: Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment Summer School (FDSE), Ecole Polytechnique, France
2013 - 2018: PhD student in Complex Fluids Group, Princeton University. Thesis advisor: Howard A. Stone
2012 - 2013: Undergraduate researcher in Nonlinear Physics Group, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Advisor: Yih-Yuh Chen
2011 - 2013: Undergraduate researcher in Complex Systems Group, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Advisor: Jih-Chiang Tsai

Education

2013 - 2018: Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), Princeton University. Thesis advisor: Howard A. Stone
2009 - 2013: B.S. in Physics, National Taiwan University  

Awards

2024 - 2026: Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2024 - 2025: Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) Distinguished Lecturer
2023 - 2024: Research Scholar Award, Google Research
2018 - 2019: Lamont Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
2017 - 2018: Maeder Graduate Fellowship in Energy and the Environment, Princeton University

Invited Talks

Earth:

Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Brown University, RI (December 2024)
Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech, CA (June 2024)
Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA (April 2024)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Meeting AI/ML in Geophysics - Are We Beyond the Black Box? (November 2023)- virtual
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, PA (September 2023)
Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of California Berkeley, CA (September 2023)
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, IL (December 2022)
Earth Resources Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA (April 2022)- virtual
Stanford Earth, Stanford University, CA (April 2022).
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, MA (April 2022)- virtual
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK (February 2021)- virtual

Math:

Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence Annual Meeting, Simons Foundation, NY (December 2024)
SEA-CROGS Webinar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (May 2024)- virtual
FRG conference: Singularities in incompressible flows, University of Minnesota, MN (April 2024)
Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar, Mathematics Department, Caltech, CA (November 2023)
AOS Colloquium, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NY (April 2023)
Machine Learning + X Seminars, Brown University, RI (April 2023)- virtual
Machine Learning at the Flatiron Institute Seminar, Flatiron Institute, NY (March 2023)
Department of Applied Mathematics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (March 2023)- virtual
Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern Joint Mathematics Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA (February 2023)
Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence Workshop, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NY (December 2022)
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK (February 2021)- virtual

Physics and Engineering:

Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (November 2024)
The Data-Driven Physical Simulation (DDPS) Webinar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (October 2024)- virtual
Center for Soft and Living Matter, University of Pennsylvania, PA (June 2024)
JFM/DAMTP/LIFD joint Fluid Mechanics Webinar (December 2023)- virtual
Institute of Physics Colloquium, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (August 2023)
Fluids Seminar, School of Engineering, Brown University, RI (February 2023)
Physics Department Colloquium, Emory University, GA (October 2022)
National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Physics Division, Taiwan (August 2022)
APS March Meeting, Chicago, IL (March 2022)
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech, CA (February 2021)- virtual
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA (March 2020)
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, PA (February 2020)