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SDSU Climate Informatics Lab (SCIL)

Recruiting New Lab Members
The SDSU Climate Informatics Lab (SCIL) continuously recruits students (both graduate and undergraduate) and visitors to do research on climate data visualization, AI weather forecasting, data science, machine learning applications to climate science, climate statistics, and climate mathematics. US government fellowships are available for eligible US citizens. The lab students may major in mathematics, statistics, data science, computer science, computational science, atmospheric science, oceanography, environmental science and engineering, or other climate-related areas. For more information, please contact Dr. Sam Shen.

Current Students and Researchers
Danielle Lafarga
David Hyon
Maximilliano Ramirez
Iman Khadir
Marina Vicens Miquel
Shane Stevenson
Adam Lizerbram
Arthur Pasquinelli
Audrey Oliver
Christian Byars
Dylan Hahn
Elliot Gambale
Emerson Ceccarelli
Gian Taparan
Jonathan Siegel
Keshu Yang
Laura Hu
Lillian Snyder
Matthew Tu
Meg Bucich
Richard Pak
Riley Rutan
Miguel Bravo Martinez Del Valle
Ryan Cai
Sam Jackowski
Will Ruff
William Phong
Christian Pelayo

Faculty
Ryan Lafler (SDSU Lecturer and Adjunct Faculty)
Gregori Clarke (SDSU Adjunct Faculty)
Julien Pierret (SDSU Adjunct Faculty)
Samuel Shen

Off-Campus Project Collaborative Faculty
Mitch Goldberg (City Univerity of New York)
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou (UC-Irvine)
Amy McGovern (University of Oklahoma)
Aaron Hill (University of Oklahoma)
Mike Jacox (NOAA/SWFSC)
Jeff Privette (NOAA/NCEI)
Steve Ansari (NOAA/NCEI)
Lynn Russell (SIO/UCSD)
Tony Song (NASA/JPL)
Richard Somerville (SIO/UCSD, Professor Emeritus)
Phil Arkin (Uni. of Maryland, Professor Emeritus)
Tom Smith (NOAA/STAR, retired)

2023: SCIL joins the NSF AI Institute AI2ES as a partner
This is a collaborative project led by Sam Shen in collaboration with Distinguished Professor & Henry Samueli Endowed Chair Efi Foufoula-Georgiou (Co-Principal Investigator) at the University of California-Irvine and Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor Amy McGovern (Co-Principal Investigator) at Universiyt of Oklahoma.

2014: SCIL joins the NSF EaSM-3 project
This project is led by Professor Yongkang Xue of UCLA in collaboration with Dr. William Parton of Colorado State University

Lab Photos in Different Years

Former Students and Lab Members (Degree and Completion Year)

  1. Lianger Gong (MS, 1991; PhD, 1994)
  2. Zhaoting Xu (Visitor, 1991, 1997, and 2003)
  3. Keying Guan (Visitor, 1991)
  4. Rongfeng Li (Visitor, 1992)
  5. V.I. Molotkov (Visitor, 1993)
  6. Shuanian Zhang (Visitor, 1994)
  7. Yinnian He (Visitor, 1996)
  8. (Adam) Xiaochun Wang (MS, 1996)
  9. Bin Shen (MS, 1998, co-supervision)
  10. Bingke Zhao (Visitor, 1999)
  11. Sui Wei (Visitor, 2001)
  12. Shouting Gao (Visitor, 2002)
  13. Steven Semenjuck (Undergraduate Researcher, 2003)
  14. Chee-Tiong Ong (PhD, 2003)
  15. Darren Griffith (MS, 2003)
  16. Fan Ping (Postdoc, 2003)
  17. Laura McIntyre (Undergraduate Summer Researcher, 2004)
  18. Paul Cartledge (Undergraduate Researcher, 2004)
  19. Ai Gurung (Postdoc, 2004)
  20. Xin Li (Visitor, 2004)
  21. Zhaojun Wang (MITACS Fellow/Visitor, 2004)
  22. Jishou Ruan (MITACS Fellow/Visitor, 2004)
  23. Xiaodong Zeng (Postdoc, 2005)
  24. Huamei Yin (PhD, 2005)
  25. Robert Field (MS, 2005)
  26. Tingting Shu (PhD, 2006)
  27. Anhui Wang (PhD, 2007, co-supervision at IAP/CAS, China)
  28. Andreas Rupp (MS, 2007)
  29. Benedikt Kramps (MS, 2008)
  30. Markus Bantle (MS, 2009)
  31. Christine Lee (MS, 2009)
  32. Qingfang Dai (PhD, 2010)
  33. Aaron Danohue (MS, 2010)
  34. Scott Strachan (MS, 2010)
  35. Tobias Regele (MS, 2010)
  36. Alex Weithman (MS, 2011)
  37. David New (MS, 2011)
  38. (Shirley) Xiaoli Sun (PhD, 2012, co-supervision at BFSU, China)
  39. Olaf Wied (MS, 2012)
  40. Martin Lehman (MS, 2012)
  41. Clare Baek (MS, 2012)
  42. Quanbin Zhang (Visitor, 2012)
  43. Wei Hua (PhD, 2013, co-supervision at SIO/UCSD)
  44. Max Velado (MS, 2013)
  45. Carina Mueller (MS, 2013)
  46. Karl Daniel Michaelis (MS, 2013)
  47. Jaznynn Ngo (MS, 2013)
  48. Julien Pierret (MS, 2013)
  49. Nancy Tafolla (MS, 2013)
  50. Li Ren (Postdoc, 2013, co-supervision at Univ. of Maryland)
  51. Aneesh Subramanian (Postdoc, 2013, co-supervision at SIO/UCSD)
  52. Nicholas Cavanaugh (PhD, 2014, co-supervision at SIO/UCSD)
  53. Christian Junginger (MS, 2014)
  54. Dorothy Tao (Visiting PhD student from BFSU, 2014)
  55. Joy Mueller (Undergraduate Researcher, 2014)
  56. Aihong Fu (Visitor, 2014)
  57. Janina Anderer (MS, 2015)
  58. Gregori Clarke (MS, 2015)
  59. Barbara Sperberg (MS, 2015)
  60. Wei Hua (PhD, 2015, co-supervision at IAP/CAS, China)
  61. Xuqin Duan (Visitor, 2015)
  62. Lars Laemmlein (MS, 2016)
  63. Florian Martin (MS, 2016)
  64. Kim Leung (PhD, 2016)
  65. Alfonso Hernandez Garza (MS, 2017)
  66. Sophie Leonard (MS, 2017)
  67. Stefan Ehard (MS, 2017)
  68. Greg Behm (MS, 2017)
  69. Marc Schneble (MS, 2017)
  70. Milagros Esmerode (Undergraduate Researcher, 2017)
  71. Brian Hayes (Undergraduate Researcher, 2017)
  72. Kristine Dinh (Undergraduate Researcher, 2017-2018)
  73. Louis Selstad (Undergraduate Researcher, 2018)
  74. Dakota Newsome (Undergraduate Researcher, 2018)
  75. Julien Pierret (PhD, 2018)
  76. Tyler Tucker (MS, 2018)
  77. Kim Gustein (MS, 2018)
  78. Kerson Perez (MS, 2018)
  79. Yogesh Kohli (MS, 2019)
  80. Scott Knapp (Undergraduate Researcher, 2019)
  81. Manisha Rangaraju (MS, 2020)
  82. Briana Ramirez (MS, 2021)
  83. Yao Chen (MS, 2021)
  84. Jesus Perez Guranta (MS, 2021)
  85. Isaiah Dorado (Undergraduate Researcher, 2021)
  86. Momtaza Sayd (Undergraduate Researcher, 2021; MS, 2024)
  87. Minyang Wang (PhD, co-supervision 2021)
  88. Jorge Caballero (Undergraduate Researcher, 2022)
  89. Abdullahi Mohamed (Undergraduate Researcher, 2022)
  90. Joseph Binny (Undergraduate Researcher, 2022)
  91. Javier Zambrano (Undergraduate Researcher, 2022)
  92. Mu-Ting Huang (MS, 2022)
  93. Gabriel Smith (Undergraduate Researcher, 2022)
  94. Kaelia Okamura (Undergraduate Researcher, NOAA EPP Fellow, 2022)
  95. Catlin Brown (Undergraduate Researcher, 2022)
  96. Justin Ngo (Undergraduate Researcher, 2022)
  97. Ayoub Rammo (Undergraduate Researcher, 2022)
  98. Joaquin Stawsky (Undergraduate Researcher, NOAA EPP Fellow, 2022)
  99. Yiyi Li (MS, 2023)
  100. Tom Derig (MS, 2023)
  101. Saroop Samra (MS, 2023)
  102. Liu Yang (PhD, co-supervision 2023)
  103. Ryan Lafler (BS, 2021; MS, 2023)
  104. Anna Wade (MS, 2023)
  105. Ruizhe Chen (Undergraduate Researcher, 2023)
  106. Elizabeth Reddy (Undergraduate Researcher, 2023)
  107. Ian Layng (Undergraduate Researcher, 2023)
  108. Lydia Wong (Undergraduate Researcher, 2023)
  109. Tejan Patel (Undergraduate Researcher, 2023)
  110. Ian Ravenscroft (Undergraduate Researcher, 2024)
  111. Sasha Luhnow (Undergraduate Researcher, 2024)
  112. Abram Burrows (Undergraduate Researcher, 2024)
  113. Thomas Bui (Undergraduate Researcher, NOAA EPP Fellow, BS, 2022; MS, 2024)
  114. Mathew Meier (Undergraduate Researcher, BS, 2025)
  115. Riley Rutan (MS, 2025)
  116. Lukas Velasco (Undergraduate Researcher, BS, 2025)
  117. Miguel Bravo Martinez Del Valle (MS, 2025)
  118. Michael Albo (MS, 2025)
  119. Esteban Lopez (BS, 2025)
  120. Iman Khadir (Undergraduate Researcher, BS, 2025)
  121. Danielle Lafarga (Graduate Researcher, NOAA EPP Fellow, PhD, 2025)
  122. Adam Lizerbram (Undergraduate Researcher, BS, 2025)