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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Statistics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Prior to KIT, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sebastian Engelke’s group in the Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science at the University of Geneva for two years. I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics under the supervision of Raphaël Huser from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, a M.Sc. in Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University.
My research interests include extreme value theory, machine learning, statistical forecast evaluation, and weather and climate extremes. Recently I am particularly interested in developing statistically sound methodologies for evaluating predictions of extremes, and investigating whether artificial intelligence (AI)-based models can predict extreme weather events and how to improve the prediction skills.
News
- May 2026: I have done a poster and an oral presentation at EGU 2026 in Vienna. Thank you for the discussions and feedback. The poster can be downloaded here, and the presentation slides are available here. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments.
- Apr. 2026: Our paper showing that physics-based models outperform AI weather forecasts of record-breaking extremes has been accepted and appeared in Science Advances. Thank you for the broad media coverage.
- Interviews: Bloomberg (Joe Wertz, Mary Hui), Carbon Brief (Ayesha Tandon), CNN Weather (Andrew Freedman, Angela Fritz), Fast Company (Adele Peters), Le Figaro (Marc Cherki), Tages-Anzeiger (Joachim Laukenmann)
- Other coverage: Science Media Center, Tagesschau, ORF, Die Welt, FAZ, SWI, RTS, Heise, Yahoo News
- Press releases: KIT, University of Geneva, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
- Aug. 2025: Our paper entitled “Numerical models outperform AI weather forecasts of record-breaking extremes” is on arXiv (joint work with Erich Fischer, Jakob Zscheischler, and Sebastian Engelke). See the reactions and comments on this preprint on LinkedIn.
- Jun. 2025: I have presented a poster on AI weather forecasts of record-breaking extremes in the EXCLAIM symposium at ETH Zurich. Thanks for all the discussions. The poster can be downloaded here.