CV
Complete CV
Work
- NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Researcher, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.
- Investigate the particle contributions originated from Moon and Earth to Earth’s geospace system by combining numerical modeling efforts with the ARTEMIS-THEMIS (lunar mission) observational data.
- Joint position as a visiting scholar at the Space Science Lab, University of California, Berkeley, to collaborate with the leading researchers in planetary science.
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL [2019 - 2023]
- Thesis: Transport and Energization of Heavy Ions in Earth’s High Latitude Ionosphere
- Advisor: Raluca Ilie
- M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL [2017 - 2019]
- Thesis: Determine the Role of Neglected Heavy Ions N+ in the Earth’s Inner Magnetosphere
- Advisor: Raluca Ilie
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013 - 2017
Research Experience
- Early Career Scientist Member, International Team #528: Heavy Element, International Space Science Institution (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland.
- Address the problem of the Earth’s atmospheric loss of heavy elements from the behavior of the ionospheremagnetosphere system in response to geomagnetic activities.
- Collaborate with 10 experts from space science, planetary science, atmospheric science, as well as paleomagnetism from 10 institutions.
- Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL [Aug. 2017 - 2023]
- Advisor: Raluca Ilie
- Developed Seven Ion Polar Wind Outflow Model (7iPWOM), the first polar wind model to describe the outflow of nitrogen and molecular ions along the magnetic field lines in the polar cap area. This effort not only improved our modeling efforts and showed significant improvement as compared with observations, but demonstrated the key role nitrogen ions play in the overall ionospheric outflow.
- Further developed the Hot Electron Ion Drift Integrator Model (HEIDI), to include an additional ions species, which makes HEIDI the first and only ring current model to track the evolution and dynamics of all relevant ring current ions species.
- Devised and developed the Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) visualization model to generate TWINS-like ENA images from the simulation data.
- Led a proposal that granted computer allocation on the XSEDE Bridge Supercomputer, which provides the computing resources to several other group members.
Awards
- NASA Jack Eddy Postdoc Fellowship, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, NASA [2023].
- Paul D. Coleman Outstanding Research Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL [2023].
- Raj Mittra Outstanding Research Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL [2022].
- EECS Rising Stars, MIT [2021]
- Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship, NASA Heliophysics Devision [2021-2023]
- This prestigious research award is among only 19 national selections made in 2021 by NASA’s Heliophysics division.
- The funding project is to investigate the role of heavy ions in the polar wind from ionosphere to several Earth radii.
- This research fellowship is funded $45,000 per 12-months for two years.
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- Mavis Future Faculty Fellows (MF3), Grainger College of Engineering, UIUC, Urbana, IL [2021-2022]
- Yuen T. Lo Outstanding Graduate Research Award, UIUC, Urbana, IL [2020-2021]
- Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA), 2020 AGU, Virtual [Dec. 2020]
- Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA), 2019 AGU, San Francisco, California [Dec. 2019]
- Listed as Teachers Ranked as Excellent, UIUC, Urbana, IL [Fall 2019, Spring 2020]
- Course: ECE 329 Fields and Waves I.
- Best Student Presentation Award, 2018 GEM Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico [Jun. 2018]
- Heliophysics Summer School Scholarship, UCAR, Boulder, CO [Jul. 2018]
- Space Weather Summer School Scholarship, HAO, Boulder, CO [Jul. 2018]
- Presidential Award, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan [Jan. 2014]
- This award recognizes top 5% of the class.
Teaching/Mentoring Experience
Leadership and Service
- Organizer, Center for Integrative Planetary Science (CIPS), UC Berkeley [2024-Present].
- Member, 2024 Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium Steering Committee [2024-Present].
- Journal Reviewer, JGR, GRL [2023-Present].
- Panelist, NASA, NSF [2023-Present].
- Session Chair, AGU SPA [2023-Present].
- Student Representative, AGU SPA [2023-2024].
- Principal Investigator, HUG Initiative, Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL [2022-2023].
- Led the research team across the Engineering College to conduct the survey study and hold the panel discussion and workshop.
- Advocate for the pursuit of research careers among undergraduate and graduates, 200 students in total, in the ECE Illinois.
- Member, AGU OSPA Advisory Committee [2021].
- Student Representative, NSF GEM Program [2020-2022].
- Software Development Manager, Electromagnetics (EM) VR Lab of UIUC, Urbana, IL.
- Led the software archiving efforts, and worked with 20 software developers for the Virtual Reality project to establish best practices for software development.
- Electromagnetics (EM) VR Lab of UIUC
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