Research Scientists & Postdoctoral Fellows:

Dr. Qiang Sun, Research Scientist 

Email: qiangsun@uchicago.edu
PhD: Atmospheric Science, Penn State University
Postdoc: Princeton/GFDL
Google Scholar: link

Dr. Hamid Pahlavan, Junior Fellow of Rice Academy

Email: pahlavan@nwra.com
Jointly advised by Dr. Joan Alexander at NWRA
PhD: Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
Website: link

Dr. Alex Wikner, Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: awikner@uchicago.edu
PhD: Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
Google Scholar: link

Dr. Dhruvit Patel, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: dpp94@uchicago.edu
PhD: Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
Google Scholar: link

PhD Students:

Karan Jakhar

Email: karanj@uchicago.edu
MS: Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Google Scholar: link

Katy Rucker

Email: krucker01@uchicago.edu
BS: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Mathematics, UCLA

Lichuan Xu

Email: lichuan@uchicago.edu
BS: Physics and Applied Mathematics, UC Berkeley
Google Scholar: link

Undergraduate Research Assistants:

Adam Marchakitus

Email: marchakitus@uchicago.edu
Majors: Environmental Science and Data Science

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