Teaching activities

Please feel free to get in touch (see ABOUT for e-mail) if you are interested in doing research projects with me. I make it a point that I don't take anyone on without having talked with them at some point. For post-docs and post-grads, I would primarily be looking to supervise topics in ocean circulation, dynamics or climate related research, and normally the projects I propose will have a strong computation component. You are welcome of course to propose your own topics, but then funding source and money becomes a possible constraint.

Short projects

If on the other hand you are a UG or MSc student say looking to do a short project with me (e.g. final year projects, part of the HKUST IRE program looking for research experience, or just generally interested in doing something a bit different), then I highly recommend you get in touch with me in advance, so that I can cook up a project according to your interests etc. (because otherwise I make project titles deliberately vague). Projects can be fairly flexible/random in terms of topics and area, and a few I am interested in are (list has a very strong theoretical bias):

  • atmospheric dynamics (particularly on waves, and stratospheric dynamics)
  • data assimilation techniques
  • foundations of machine learning algorithms
  • ocean related thermodynamics
  • (Shannon) information entropy (theory and applications)
  • chaotic mixing and dynamical systems theory
  • topics in fluid dynamics (classical, magneto, quantum)
  • computational/statistical methods
  • symplectic geometry and Hamiltonian mechanics
  • PT symmetry, non-Hermitian operators, and classical mechanics
  • Topological Data Analysis (TDA)
  • Instanton approaches and Large Deviation Theory
  • ...your suggestions?

    • Current teaching/mentoring activities

    BSc CHAN Chun Ting Topological data analysis with financial market applications [PHYS FYP] Sep 24 - date
    BSc CHEN Hin Kwan Data-driven equation discovery Sep 24 - date
    BSc HO Chung Yan Data-driven equation discovery Sep 24 - date
    PDRA Virryna WU Yue Arctic eddy dynamics Feb 24 - date
    PhD Jonathan LEE Ho Ching Coastal storm surge modelling Feb 24 - now
    PhD YAN Feier Machine learning in oceanography Feb 21 - now
    PhD NA Yongsu South China Sea state estimation Sep 20 - now
    PhD RUAN Xi Physical and biogeochemical response and dependence on eddy representation Sep 20 - now
    PhD LEE Han Seul Sensitivities of the Southern Ocean overturning circulation Sep 19 - now

    24/54 OCES1001 Earth as a blue planet guest lecturer (1 week) HKUST
    OCES2003 Descriptive Physical Oceanography lecturer HKUST
    OCES3301 Data Analysis in Ocean Science lecturer HKUST
    OCES3203 Physical Oceanography lecturer HKUST

    Previous teaching/mentoring activities

    MPhil Dan BARTLEY Investigation of dispersion in a coastal region using Transition Path Theory Sep 22 - Aug 24
    MPhil Kayla LEE Lagrangian methods Sep 22 - Aug 23
    UG Anderson POON N-body problems Jul 23 - Aug 23
    UG Matthew FONG Energy balance models [PHYS FYP] Sep 22 - May 23
    UG CHUNG Soobeom Non-Hermitian operators and PT symmetries in quantum systems [PHYS FYP] Sep 22 - May 23
    PDRA WANG Huanhuan Boundary layer turbulence Sep 22 - Feb 23
    PDRA Gautam KUMAR Fluid instabilities Mar 21 - Sep 22
    MPhil LIU Yongqi Effect of eddy parameterization in models with continental slopes Sep 20 - Aug 22
    RA Dan BARTLEY Turbulent dispersion Jan 22 - Jul 22
    UG Tian Ju (Tim) DU Data assimilation in Lorenz models Sep 21 - May 22
    MSc Zipei DONG Information entropy Sep 21 - Dec 21
    UG Anastasia LEUNG Statistical physics and Monte Carlo methods Jun 21 - Aug 21
    BSc Rachel TSOI Hadley cell models Sep 20 - May 21
    BSc Jolie NG ENSO models Sep 20 - May 21
    RA Chinmayee MALLICK Scientific computation and inverse methods May 20 - Mar 21
    Visitor Ellie ONG Baroclinic lifecycles Oct 20 - Jan 21
    RA Floriane Oceane SUDRE Turbulent dispersion in coastal environments Mar 20 - May 21
    BSc Nick KANG Chaotic mixing Jun 20 - Aug 20
    BSc Haruki SAEGUSA Chaotic mixing Jun 20 - Aug 20
    Jun 21 - Jan 22
    MSc RUAN Xi BGC models Feb 20 - Jun 20
    BSc Kathryn CHOW BGC models Feb 20 - Jun 20

    23/24 OCES1001 Earth as a blue planet lecturer (1 week) HKUST
    OCES2003 Descriptive Physical Oceanography lecturer HKUST
    OCES3301 Data Analysis in Ocean Science lecturer HKUST
    OCES5200 Physical Oceanography lecturer HKUST
    22/23 OCES2003 Descriptive Physical Oceanography lecturer HKUST
    OCES3301 Data Analysis in Ocean Science lecturer HKUST
    OCES3203 Physical Oceanography lecturer HKUST
    21/22 OCES2003 Descriptive Physical Oceanography lecturer HKUST
    OCES3301 Data Analysis in Ocean Science lecturer HKUST
    20/21 OCES2003 Descriptive Physical Oceanography lecturer HKUST
    ENVS3004 Global Climate Change lecturer
    (with Wang Yan)    		 HKUST
    ENVS6011 Postgraduate seminar in ocean sciences lecturer HKUST
    19/20 ENVS3004 Global Climate Change lecturer
    (with Wang Yan)    		 HKUST
    ENVS6011 Postgraduate seminar in ocean sciences lecturer HKUST
    16/17 MATH11181 Mathematics in Action B lecturer University of Edinburgh
    15/16 MATH08063 Several Variable Calculus and Differential Equations tutor University of Edinburgh
    MATH08065 Computing and numerics
    14/15 MATH08065 Computing and numerics tutor University of Edinburgh
    13/14 MATH1060 Introduction to Linear Algebra tutor University of Leeds
    MATH1010 Mathematics 1
    MATH2650 Calculus of Variations
    12/13 MATH2431 Fourier Series, PDEs and Transforms tutor University of Leeds
    11/12 MATH1055 Numbers and Vectors tutor University of Leeds
    MATH1910 Modelling and Investigations
    MATH2431 Fourier Series, PDEs and Transforms
    10/11 MATH2431 Fourier Series, PDEs and Transforms tutor University of Leeds