Capacity development

He Wang

Project Scientist II at UCAR

He joined our group in 2020. He works on tide modeling and Great Lakes modeling using the NOAA MOM6 ocean model.

Badarvada Yadidya

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yadidya joined our group in 2023 after obtaining his PhD at IIT New Delhi. He is exploring the phase accuracy of internal tides in US Navy HYCOM forecasts.

Siva Heramb Peddada

Postdoctoral Fellow

Siva joined our group in 2024. He is exploring the use of ocean models to map ocean mixing.

Hugo Plombat

Postdoctoral Fellow

Hugo received his PhD from Université de Montpellier in Astrophysics. He joined our group in 2024 and his project connects lunar orbit evolution with ocean tide modeling.

Julia (Jia-Xuan) Chang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Julia recieved her PhD from University of Victoria and joined our group in 2025. She is working on analysis of SWOT data and models.

Joseph Ansong

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Joseph received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Alberta.  Joseph was a postdoc and then research scientist in our group from 2011-2017.  He is now a Lecturer (equivalent of assistant professor) at the University of Ghana.

Amanda O'Rourke

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Amanda received her PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University.  Amanda was in our group from 2014-2017.  She is now a scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Patrick Timko

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Patrick received his PhD in Physical Oceanography from Memorial University of Newfoundland.  Patrick was a postdoc in our group from 2008-2012.  He is now a Support Scientist at Environment Canada.

David Trossman

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

David was in our group from 2011-2013, after receiving his PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Washington.  David is now a Visiting Associate Research Scientist at NOAA STAR/NESDIS Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry (LSA; through the cooperative agreement between NOAA and University of Maryland-College Park).

Arin Nelson

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Arin received his PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Colorado.  Arin was in our group from 2017-2020. He worked on non-phase-locked internal tides and on high-resolution internal gravity wave modeling. He is now a scientist at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.

Ritabrata Thakur

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Ritabrata joined our group in 2020. He worked on high-resolution internal wave models and is now on the faculty of IIT New Delhi.

Joseph Skitka

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Joe joined our group in 2020. He worked on the dynamics and energy budgets of the internal wave spectrum in models.

Malte Müller

Former Postdoctoral Scientist

Malte received his PhD in Oceanography from the University of Hamburg.  He worked with us from 2012-2013 as a postdoctoral contractor.  Malte is now a Research Scientist at the Norwegian Meteorological Insitute.

Anthony Chen

Graduate Student

Anthony is a PhD student in the Applied Math program. He is working on alternative methods for computing the self-attraction and loading term in tide modeling.

Conrad Luecke

Former Graduate Student

After receiving a BS in Physics from Oberlin College, Conrad joined our group in 2012.  He defended his PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2018 and is now a research scientist at the Stennis Space Center branch of Naval Research Laboratory.

Paige Martin

Former Graduate Student

Paige received her BS in Physics from Harvard University.  She began in our group in 2013 and defended her Physics PhD in 2019. She is now a Program Scientist & Program Officer for NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) mission.

Molly Range

Former Graduate Student

Molly worked in our group from 2016-2018, first as an undergraduate, and later as an MS student. She received her MS in Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2018.  Molly’s research was partially supervised by postdoc Joseph Ansong. Molly is now employed by Whirlpool.

Ben Alterman

Former Graduate Student

Ben received his BS in Physics from Macalester College.  He worked in our group in 2012 before switching to a Solar Physics group.

Verónica Vergara Larrea

Former Graduate Student

Veronica worked with us in 2009, while doing her MS in Computational Science.  She is currently a programmer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Andrew Morten

Former Graduate Student

Andy received his BS in Physics from MIT.  Andy began his PhD work with us in 2010, and defended his dissertation in Physics in 2015. He is now a “Software Engineer in Mathematical Optimization” at Mythic-AI in Silicon Valley.

Anna Savage

Former Graduate Student

Anna received her BS in Physics from Kalamazoo College.  Anna began her PhD work with us in 2012, and defended her dissertation in Applied Physics in 2017. She did a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and is now employed by Running Tide, a private sector company devoted to ocean issues.

Alfredo Wetzel

Former Graduate Student

Alfredo received his BS at U-M, with a double major in Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering.  Alfredo began his PhD work with us in 2010, and defended his dissertation in Applied Mathematics, jointly supervised by Professor of Mathematics Peter Miller, in 2015.  He performed a postdoc in the mathematics department at the University of Wisconsin and now lives in Australia.

Avik Mondal

Former Graduate Student

Avik joined our group in 2021 and defended his Physics PhD in 2025. His work was on nonlinear energy transfers in the frequency domain. Avik also worked in David Lubensky’s biophysics research group.

Avik is currently seeking a postdoctoral position in physical oceanography.

Kristin Barton

Former Graduate Student

Kristin joined our group in 2020 and defended her PhD in Physics in 2023. She worked closely with Department of Energy scientists, especially Steven Brus, Darren Engwirda, Mark Petersen, and Andrew Roberts, on insertion of tides and inline self-attraction and loading in DoE models.

Lisa Nguyen

Former Graduate Student

Lisa joined our group in 2021. She is in the Applied Physics program and is primarily supervised by Professor Christiane Jablanowski of U-M’s CLASP department.

Steve Bassette

Former Undergraduate Student

Steve, a U-M double major in Physics and Mathematics, worked with us from 2011-2015.

Brandon Cloutier

Former Undergraduate Student

Brandon, a U-M double major in Physics and Complex systems, worked with us from 2012-2014, and was primarily supervised by postdoc David Trossman.

Eliana Crawford

Former Undergraduate Student

Eliana, a Kenyon College Physics major, worked with us from 2016-2017, and was partially supervised by postdoc Joseph Ansong.  She now works in the private sector.

Houraa Daher

Former Undergraduate Student

Houraa, a U-M AOSS major, worked with us from 2014-2016, and was primarily supervised by postdoc Joseph Ansong.  Houraa went on to receive a PhD at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami.

Caroline Kinstle

Former Undergraduate Student

Caroline, a U-M AOSS major, worked with us in 2012, primarily supervised by postdoc David Trossman.

Andrew Miller

Former Undergraduate Student

Andrew, a U-M Earth and Environmental Sciences major, worked with us from 2014-2015, primarily supervised by graduate students Anna Savage and Conrad Luecke.

Aaron Skiba

Former Undergraduate Student

Aaron, a U-M Aerospace Engineering major, worked with us from 2010-2012.  He is now a postdoc in Aerospace Engineering at Cambridge University.

Jeremy Upsal

Former Undergraduate Student

Jeremy, a University of Colorado Mathematics major, worked with us from 2012-2014.  He was primarily supervised by postdoc David Trossman.  Jeremy is now an Applied Mathematics graduate student at the University of Washington.

Ji Ye

Former Undergraduate Student

Ji, a U-M Earth and Environmental Sciences major, worked with us from 2016-2017.  She was primarily supervised by graduate student Anna Savage.  Ji is now traveling the world as a Bonderman Fellow.

Libo Zeng

Former Undergraduate Student

Libo, a U-M Physics major, worked with us from 2010-2011.  He is now an Applied Mathematics graduate student at the University of Washington.

Byron Conley

Former Undergraduate Student

Byron, an FSU Physics major, worked with us in the summer of 2009.

Will Godwin

Former Undergraduate Student

Will, an FSU Physics major, worked with us in the summer of 2009.  Will received his PhD in Medical Physics in 2017.

Joey Molinari

Former Undergraduate Student

Joey, an FSU Mathematics major, worked with us in the summer of 2009.

Brian Rivera

Former Undergraduate Student

Brian, an FSU Physics major, worked with us in the summer of 2009.

Jonathan Brasch

Former Undergraduate Student

Jonathan, a computer science major, worked with us from 2019-2021 on comparisons of velocities in high-resolution ocean models with observations from surface drifters.

Charles Light

Former Undergraduate Student

Charles, a computer science major, worked with us from 2019-2021 on precipitation in high-resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere models.

Lingxiao Guan

Former Undergraduate Student

Lingxiao, a computer science major, worked with us from 2021-2022. He was primarily supervised by Joseph Skitka and Ritabrata Thakur.

Daniel Garcia

Former Undergraduate Student

Daniel, a computer science major, worked with us in 2021. He was primarily supervised by Joseph Skitka and Ritabrata Thakur.

Hari Sharma

Former High School Student

Hari worked with us in the summer of 2014.  He was primarily supervised by graduate student Anna Savage.

Ayon Sen

Former High School Student

Ayon worked with us as a high school student intern during summers 2006 and 2007.  For his work with us, Ayon was a national finalist in both the Siemens and Intel high school science competitions.  Ayon now works for Oblong Industries.

Anson Varghese

Former High School Student

Anson worked with us as a high school student intern during summer 2008.  Anson is now a medical doctor.