Alumni: (4 Ph.D. + 8 M.Sc.):

• Dr Xiaolin BAI (M.Sc.-Ph.D., 2012.09–2018.07, co-supervise with Profs. Jianyu Hu & Kevin Lamb, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada): Fission of shoaling nonlinear internal waves in the northeastern South China Sea (Summarized in: Bai et al., 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2021; now a faculty member of DyOG & Nanqiang Young Scholar/Associate Professor of Xiamen Univ., Xiamen, China)
• Dr Qiang LIAN (Ph.D., 2014.09–2020.06, co-supervise with Prof. Bill Smyth, Oregon State Univ., USA): Instability of turbulent stratified shear flows: theory, numerical computation, and application (Summarized in: Lian et al., 2020, 2022; now Assistant Professor of Shantou Univ., Shantou, China)
• Dr Chuanyin WANG (Ph.D., 2017.09–2022.06, co-supervise with Dr Hongyang Lin): Dynamical decomposition of multiscale oceanic motions (Summarized in: Wang, Liu & Lin, 2022, 2023a, 2023b; now Postdoc of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, China, with Dake Chen & Qinghua Yang)
• Dr Zhiyong CAO (Ph.D., 2016.09–2022.08): An observational investigation of the diurnal evolution of the upper mixed layer in the tropical open ocean (Summarized in: Cao et al., 2022, ...; now Postdoc of IOCAS, Qingdao, China, with Jianing Wang)

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• Qiang LIAN (M.Sc., 2011.09–2014.07): Assessments of turbulence closure schemes with oceanic turbulence measurements (Summarized in: Lian & Liu, 2015)
• Haoran ZHANG (M.Sc., 2013.09–2016.12): Isopycnal mixing in the global ocean (Now Ph.D. student of SIO/MNR, Hangzhou, China, with Fei Chai)
• Wenjun ZHU (M.Sc., 2015.09–2019.07, co-supervise with Dr Hongyang Lin): An investigation of frontal processes in the Taiwan Strait during spring and winter (Now Ph.D. student of UNSW, Canberra, Australia, with Xiao Hua Wang)
• Jiang LONG (M.Sc., 2017.09–2020.06): An investigation of statistical characteristics of small-scale turbulence in the ocean (Now Engineer of TP-LINK, Shenzhen, China)
• Shan JIANG (M.Sc., 2017.09–2020.06): Energy of internal waves in the South China Sea (Now Engineer of TP-LINK, Shenzhen, China)
• Huaiwei YANG (M.Sc., 2018.09–2021.06, co-supervise with Dr Ye Yuan, NMEFC/MNR, China): Numerical simulation and escape strategy of the rip current in the Dadonghai beach in Sanya city (Now Researcher of NMEFC/MNR, Beijing, China)
• Jiajun MA (M.Sc., 2020.09–2023.06, co-superise with Dr Xiaolin Bai): An observational study of the dissipation of shoaling internal waves on the northeastern shelf of the South China Sea
• Shasha CAO (M.Sc., 2020.09–2023.06): Eddy-topography interactions: Insights from idealized numerical simulations

Current Students: (9 Ph.D. + 3 M.Sc.):

• Yonghe TIAN (M.Sc.-Ph.D., 2016.09–): Dissipation of internal tides in the South China Sea
• Yanbing DU (Ph.D., 2019.09–): Near-inertial internal waves in the eddying ocean: generation, evolution, and dissipation
• Zhendong HU (M.Sc.-Ph.D., 2019.09–): Thermocline mixing in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (Summarized in: Hu et al., 2023, ...)
• Zhao LIU (Ph.D., 2021.09–): Water mass transformation and overturning circulation in the Pacific Ocean
• Yuxun LIU (Ph.D., 2021.09–): Eddy-internal wave interactions
• Xue SUN (Ph.D., 2022.09-): TBD
• Yaru ZHAO (M.Sc.-Ph.D., 2021.09–): Physics-informed machine learning with applications to oceanographic problems
• Xinchen HUANG (M.Sc.-Ph.D., 2022.09-): TBD
• Yinuo Wang (Ph.D., 2023.09-): TBD

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  Chen HUANG (M.Sc., 2021.09–): Dispersion of oceanic mesoscale eddies
• Meiling LIN (M.Sc., 2022.09-): TBD
• Jialin CAO (M.Sc., 2022.09-, co-supervise with Dr Bicheng Chen): TBD

Interested in doing a M.Sc./Ph.D. degree or postdoc work with me? Please reach out! We work on a variety of topics on fundamental dynamics of the ocean, emphasizing in particular that at scales around and below the deformation radius (i.e., the oceanic small, submeso- and meso- scales). Candidates with strong background in mathematics, physics or fluid mechanics are particularly welcomed. Scholarships and fellowships are available for qualified candidates.