Education & Employment

Education

Ph.D., Atmospheric Science (MEAS), North Carolina State University — 1995/08–1998/10
M.S., Atmospheric Physics, National Central University — 1990/07–1992/06
B.S., Space Physics, National Central University — 1986/09–1990/06

2014/08–Present Associate Professor, San Diego State University (SDSU)
2012–2014 Associate Research Scientist, University of Maryland/ESSIC & NASA/GSFC
2006–2012 Assistant Research Scientist, University of Maryland/ESSIC & NASA/GSFC
1999–2006 Senior Software Engineer (Research Scientist), SAIC & NASA/GSFC
1998–1999 Research Scientist, North Carolina State University (NCSU)
1995–1998 Research Assistant (part time), NCSU
1994–1995 Research Assistant, National Central University (NCU), Taiwan
1992–1994 Meteorological Officer (Unix System Application Developer & Administrator, military service), Weather Center of Weather Wing, Taiwan
1990–1992 Teaching & Research Assistant (part time), NCU, Taiwan

“Introduction to MPI”, “Introduction to PVM”, “Introduction to High Performance Fortran”, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC (1996–1997)
“TCP/IP Programming”, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan (1994)
“Introduction to Unix System”, “Introduction to Unix System Administration”, “Advanced Unix System Administration”, and “Unix Shell Programming”, CDC (Control Data Corp.), Taipei, Taiwan (1993)
“Cray UNICOS User Training”, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (1990)

Real-time NWP integrations: NASA GMM (fvGCM) suite at 1/2°, 1/4°, 1/8°; Meteorological Information Service System at AFWC, Taiwan.
Supercomputing: MPI, MPI-2 RMA, multi-level parallelism, OpenMP, ESMF, POSIX threads, Java threads; knowledge of grid computing.
Unix system & network programming: curses, device control (serial I/O), FS control, IPC (pipes, semaphores, shared memory, TCP/IP sockets), process control, signals.
System administration: Unix/Linux/Windows installation.
Software: Fortran (F77/F90/F95), OOP, C/C++, Java, BASIC, Pascal, Unix shells, m4, Perl, Python, PHP, R, HTML/XML/XHTML/CGI/AWK; CVS, GNU Make, gdb; LaTeX, MATLAB; VMware; SSH; VIS5D, AVS, GrADS, NCAR Graphics, GEMPAK.