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Current members of the research group and former advisees.
Current members (alphabetical by last name)
At the University at Albany unless noted.
Research scientists — Dr. Mukul Tewari · Dr. Chau Lam (Chris) Yu
Post-doctoral research associate — Dr. Harish Baki
Ph.D. students — Ekaterina Belash · Maximilian Pierzyna (TU Delft)
M.S. students — Emmanuel Kipchirchir
Former post-doctoral associates (alphabetical by last name)
| Name | Current position |
|---|---|
| Dr. Vikas Dwivedi | Postdoctoral Researcher, INSA Lyon, France |
| Dr. Ping He | Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, USA |
| Dr. Serkan Kartal | Associate Professor, Çukurova University, Turkey |
| Dr. Arquímedes (Archie) Ruiz-Columbié | Faculty, Texas Wind Energy Institute, Texas Tech University, USA |
| Dr. Jaya Singh | Research Associate II, GE Vernova & IIT-BHU, India |
Former Ph.D. advisees (alphabetical by last name)
| Name | Dissertation | Current position |
|---|---|---|
| Bedassa Cheneka | Wind-power ramps — characterisation, forecasting and future projection | Senior Researcher, University of Antwerp, Belgium |
| Adam DeMarco | Multiscale characterization of the PDFs of velocity and temperature increment fields | Chief, Weather Policy and Readiness Division, US Air Force |
| Pat Hawbecker | The influence of ambient stability on downburst winds | Senior Data Scientist, Sunairio |
| V. P. Kiliyanpilakkil | Scaling characteristics of mesoscale wind fields in the lower atmospheric boundary layer: implications for wind energy | — |
| Bowen Li | Dunkelflaute events — characterization, prediction and future projection | — |
| Christopher Nunalee | A dynamical characterization of atmospheric von Kármán vortex streets induced by bluff topography | Vice President, NextEra Analytics, NextEra Energy |
| Aaron Sims | Mesoscale interaction between the sea-breeze circulation and Sandhills convection (co-advised with Sethu Raman) | Senior Atmospheric Scientist, Blue Storm Associates, Inc. dba PEMDAS Technologies & Innovations |
| Brandon Storm | Modeling of low-level jets over the Great Plains: implications for wind energy | Wind Power Business Line Director, 1898 & Co. |
| Yao Wang | Estimating and forecasting optical turbulence using an artificial neural network approach | Director, NextEra Energy Inc. |
Former M.S. advisees (alphabetical by last name)
| Name | Thesis | Current position |
|---|---|---|
| William Anderson | A localized dynamic model for LES of the neutrally buoyant ABL | Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UT Dallas |
| Juliëtte Anema (co-advised) | Automated CO emission estimates from steel plants using TROPOMI | Postdoctoral Researcher, Imperial College London |
| Jeffrey Craft | Wind-ramp events: forecast verification and climatology | Senior Manager, Performance Engineering, Primergy |
| Yi Dai | Grid-size sensitivity in LES of stable boundary layers | Researcher, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands |
| Jori Dreef | Simulating frontal low-level jets and their impact on wind-energy production | Advisor, SDE and Offshore Wind Energy, Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), the Netherlands |
| Suraj Harshan | Modeling of the Antarctic boundary layer | Senior AVP, HSBC |
| Thom Homsma | Multi-step ahead ultra-short-term wind-power forecasting | Lead Business Developer, Structured Power Trading, enmacc |
| Sam Koch | Inflow wind fields from SpinnerLidar during the ScanFlow project | Product Development Manager, Buienradar (RTL), the Netherlands |
| Eric Lacoa Arends (co-advised) | Novel ML methods for wind-power probabilistic forecasting | Project Lead, ASML, the Netherlands |
| Haolin Liu | Coastal wind-speed gradients from scanning lidar and mesoscale modeling | Ph.D. student, HKUST |
| Kazimir Nyzio (applied MS internship) | Automated identification of extratropical cyclone tracks | Satellite Products Analyst & Trainer, GINA, University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| Gijs van Ouwerkerk | Novel ML methods for short-term solar PV forecasting | Trader Intraday, Northpool B.V. |
| Julie Phillipson | Bursting events in the stable atmospheric boundary layer | Lead Meteorologist, National Weather Service, Las Vegas, NV |
| Pooja Ramakrishnan (co-advised) | Evaluation of a wind-farm parameterization in an operational mesoscale model | Engineering Manager, Forecast Operations, Dexter Energy |
| Heather Richardson | Improving stable-boundary-layer parameterization to better represent nocturnal low-level jets | Director of Advanced Applications and Analytics, NextEra Energy Resources, USA |
| Kevin Schuurman | Fourier neural operators for the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky system | Ph.D. student, TU Delft |
| Rachel Trier | Forecast verification: a dispersion-modeling perspective | Lead Meteorologist / Senior Energy Analyst, National Renewable Solutions, USA |
| Kars Trommel | Wind classification using unsupervised learning | Analyst, Picnic Technologies, the Netherlands |
| Adithya Vemuri (co-advised) | Coupled mesoscale–synthetic-turbulence inflow generation | Scientist, Urban Meteorology, KNMI, the Netherlands |
| Elizabeth Wilson | (non-thesis) | Director of Weather Programs, Synoptic Data PBC |
| Camilla van Wirdum (co-advised) | Extreme convective gusts in a future warmer climate | Technology Transfer Officer, TNO, the Netherlands |
| Qidi Yu | Mesoscale modelling of waterspouts: an offshore wind-energy perspective | Doctoral Researcher, University of Bergen, Norway |
Former B.S. advisees (alphabetical by last name)
Michelle Cipullo · Pim Jacobs · Georgi Thiel
Research assistants
| Name | Topic | Current position |
|---|---|---|
| Nikhil Kondabala | Turbine inflow characterization | Co-Founder, Pantops Energy |
| Kornel Rozsavolgyi (visiting) | Wind resource and site assessments | Wind Resource Manager, Orion Renewable Energy Group |
Former visiting researchers
Zihan Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen) · Fabrizio Adamu (Università degli Studi di Cagliari) · Dr. Wei Li
Prospective students
I am always interested in hearing from motivated students with a background in atmospheric science, applied mathematics, physics, or engineering and an interest in turbulence, simulation, or machine learning for the Earth sciences. Email me with your CV and a short note about what you would like to work on.