CV
Positions
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Geodynamics, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin (2025 – present)
Two-phase flow under the explicit FLAC algorithm; Europa ice shell convection and chaos terrain; 3D magma migration for volcanic rifting in Afar; GPU acceleration of DynEarthSol.
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Core Developer, GeoFLAC (international academic GitHub organization) (2016 – present)
Developing and reviewing physical and geodynamic features in DynEarthSol; designing and implementing its GPU parallelization.
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Research Collaborator, Taiwan CPC Corporation and National Taiwan University (2024)
Proposed and secured funding for "Sedimentary Basin Framework and Thermal History Evolution of the North West Shelf of Australia"; simulated crustal rifting and extracted heat flow for hydrocarbon maturity estimation.
Education
- Ph.D. in Earth System Science, Academia Sinica and National Central University, Taiwan (TIGP) (2016 – 2024)
- M.S. in Geosciences, National Taiwan University (2011 – 2014)
- B.S. in Geosciences, National Taiwan University (2007 – 2011)
Awards
- 2019 — Outstanding Student Paper Award, Taiwan Geosciences Assembly
- 2018 — Third Place Award in Taiwan Region, NASA Space Apps Challenge
- 2018 — Outstanding Student Paper Award, Joint Annual Meeting of Geological Society and Geophysical Society
- 2013 — Outstanding Student Poster Award, EGU General Assembly
Skills
- Modeling: Geodynamic numerical modeling (FLAC/DynEarthSol), low-temperature thermochronology, sedimentary basin analysis
- Programming: Python, C++, Fortran 95; OpenMP, OpenACC, CUDA; NumPy, pandas, matplotlib
- Tools: Git, Conda, ParaView, GMT, Docker, Claude Code
- Languages: English (working proficiency), Mandarin Chinese (native)