Experience

• University of Arizona

  Climate Data Scientist/Research Assitant Professor

  One of the core scientists producing climate change datasets for North American Coordinate Regional Climate Downscaling Program (NA CORDEX). https://na-cordex.org/
  •Provide guidelines in big-data processing for climate change data users
  • Engage private sectors for sustainable research-business partnership
  • Develop physics-based climate change datasets for North America

• University of Arizona

  Climate Modeler

  • Co-investigator for three government-funded climate research projects
  • Produced climate change and extreme weather products
  • Formulated statistical analysis methodologies for impact assessment through linear and nonlinear regression models
  • Two peer-reviewed publications
  • Organized two outreach workshops for the stakeholders in natural resource management and energy industry

• Arizona Board of Regents - Arizona Tri-University Transportation Research Center Pilot Research

  Team Lead/Extrem Weather Modeler

  • Increase dust storm forecast skill to improve transportation highway safety
  • Collaborating with transportation and engineering team members to establish a recommendation for autonomous vehicle test bed in Arizona

• Department of Defense-Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program project

  Climate Scientist/Project Manager

  • Award: DoD 2017 Best Resource Conservation and Resiliency Project
  • Established statistical methodologies to formulate complex climate change data into usable tools for decision making
  • Provided recommendations to update U.S. Air Force extreme weather protocol
  • Managed project timeline, budget, personnel and deliverable
  • Provided recommendations to update aviation extreme weather protocol