Recipient of UCLA Dissertation Year Award (DYA), May 2025.
Paper 'LICO' accepted at ICLR 2025.
Papers 'Stormer', 'ChaosBench', and 'Probing LLM' accepted at NeurIPS 2024; 'Probing LLM' won Best Paper Award at Foundation Model Interventions Workshop, NeurIPS 2024.
'Stormer' won Best Paper Award at Climate Change in AI (CCAI) Workshop, ICLR 2024.
Recipient of Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, UCLA CS Department, April 2024.
Released 'Stormer' in December 2023, achieving SOTA in data-driven weather forecasting.
Papers 'ExPT' and 'ClimateLearn' accepted at NeurIPS 2023.
Presented 'ClimaX' at AGU Fall Meeting 2023, AAAI 2023, University of Cambridge, Bureau of Meteorology (Australia), and others.
'ClimaX' accepted at ICML 2023 and won Best Paper Award at Synergy of Scientific and Machine Learning Modeling Workshop; featured in Washington Post, MIT Tech Review, Nature, etc.
Released 'ClimaX'—the first foundation model for weather and climate—in January 2023.
Recipient of Amazon Fellowship, September 2022.
First PhD paper 'Transformer Neural Processes' accepted at ICML 2022.