I am broadly interested in the physics of the cryosphere, with a current focus on the hydrology of ice sheets and ice-ocean interactions. Motivated by recent observations from remote sensing, I have developed models and parameterizations for englacial hydrology and ice mélange buttressing against calving. Through interdisciplinary lens of porous media flows, granular mechanics, deep learning, and geoscience, I strive to bridge pore/grain-scale physics to observations on Earth’s surface processes.

I received my Master (2020) and PhD (2022) degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT, supervised by Professor Ruben Juanes. I am currently a postdoc in Dr. Ching-Yao Lai’s group in Stanford University and studying on:

  • the granular physics of ice mélange, its impact on icebergs calving and response to global warming;
  • simulating granular physics with graph neural networks.