Welcome.
I’m a climate scientist studying how climate change reshapes extreme weather. My research brings together climate dynamics, physical modeling, and machine learning to understand how large-scale changes in the climate system shape regional weather and hazards. I’m particularly interested in why certain patterns of surface warming form, how they influence extreme weather, why climate models and observations sometimes tell different stories, and how data-driven approaches can help address these questions.
Off the clock, I’m owned by my two cats, Nino and Nina!!! 🐈🐈⬛, littermates I adopted from a shelter in NYC. I usually have a camera with me, and lately I’ve fallen pretty deep into the film photography rabbit hole 🎞️📷. There’s also usually something playing in the background, most often jazz or rock 🎷🎸.
What I’m working on
Pacific warming patterns
Why the tropical Pacific warms differently in climate models than in observations, and how that mismatch reshapes the atmospheric circulation.
Learn more →Tropical cyclone hazards
How patterns of ocean warming reshape tropical cyclone activity, landfall, and coastal risk.
Learn more →AI for weather and climate
Whether AI climate emulators can help us study rare, extreme weather events.
Learn more →Selected work
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A More La Niña–Like Response to Radiative Forcing after Flux Adjustment in CESM2
Fixing a common ocean-temperature bias in a climate model changes how it predicts the tropical Pacific will respond to global warming.
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Re-examining Historical Trends of Tropical Cyclone Frequency
Once you account for how storm observations themselves have changed over time, the long-term trend in tropical cyclone counts looks different than assumed.
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Physics-Augmented Deep Learning to Improve Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Size Estimation from Satellite Imagery
Teaching a neural network physical constraints, not just images, makes its storm-intensity estimates more accurate — the method is now used operationally in China.
Let’s connect
I’m always happy to connect — about prospective collaborations, student opportunities, search committee questions, or just an interesting research question or curiosity (AI included). Feel free to reach out!