I am an early-career climate scientist pushing the boundaries of understanding wildfires and climate extremes using hydroclimatic, data-driven, and geostatistical approaches. My work has led to step-changes in understanding the synchronicity and persistence of extreme fire weather, factors that strongly influence extreme fire activity. My recent research focuses on extreme fires, one of the most societally and environmentally destructive consequences of climate change.
I work with Prof. John Abatzoglou, who leads the Climatology Lab at University of California, Merced.
We define fire weather waves as persistent extreme fire weather, which can intensify fire activity by sustaining exceptionally warm, dry, and windy conditions. Here, we use daily …
While overall impacts of heatwaves have been extensively studied, the connection between heatwaves and wildfire activity remains relatively underexplored. We analyze links between …
Our new study on synchronous fire weather in Science Advances received media coverage from several outlets.
Concurrent extreme fire weather creates favorable conditions for widespread large fires, which can complicate the coordination of fire suppression resources and degrade regional …
Concurrent extreme fire weather creates favorable conditions for widespread large fires, which can complicate the coordination of fire suppression resources and degrade regional …
Fire weather waves (FWWs), defined as persistent extreme fire weather, can elevate extreme fire danger by sustaining favorable burning conditions over multiple consecutive days. …
Extreme fire weather, characterized by exceptionally dry, warm, and often windy conditions, increases fire danger by enhancing fuel dryness and promoting fire spread. This seminar …
On August 1, 2025, my very first personal academic homepage, XScience, is finally live!
The Transformer model, as an emerging deep learning method, shows great potential in spatiotemporal sequence-related simulation tasks. However, there is very limited understanding …
Concurrent extreme fire weather creates favorable conditions for widespread large fires, which can complicate the coordination of fire suppression resources and degrade regional …