Yu Cheng 鄭嵎

Yu Cheng 鄭嵎

Sustainability Data Scientist

MIT Office of Sustainability

Biography

Yu has 10 years of experience using pioneering high-resolution climate models to study the ocean and its role in the climate system. Coming from Taiwan, he is a big fan of all weather phenomena and the latest technology. With an atmospheric science background, he is passionate about combining his experiences in climate modeling, software engineering and data science to solve more challenging problems.

Fun facts: Yu loves all sports with racquets. He plays in local tennis leagues, school badminton clubs, and has been stringing racquets for friends for many years. One of his dearest memories from Miami was serving as a ballperson at Miami Open and handing towels to Rafael Nadal.

Education

PhD in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography

2018

University of Miami

BSc in Atmospheric Sciences

2010

National Taiwan University

Interests

Data-driven Organization ML/AI Application Predictive Modeling Data Visualization
Recent Posts
Supercharging Your Job Hunt with ChatGPT and Espanso featured image

Supercharging Your Job Hunt with ChatGPT and Espanso

The meteoric rise of ChatGPT since its launch has made it a hot topic everywhere. An ever-increasing array of courses and articles dedicated to refining the art of prompting with …

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Wildfire Smoke is Choking Seattle: visualizing using Altair featured image

Wildfire Smoke is Choking Seattle: visualizing using Altair

Last week was tough for everyone in Seattle because of the bad air quality. Sadly, it was nothing compared to what we are going through this week. The Air Quality Index (AQI) …

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Wildfires and climate change

I moved to Seattle last summer. And I’ve already experienced three times of smoke this bad. Ironically, I had this impression that Seattle is famous for its good air quality. As …

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Parsing a .xlsx file generated by Labchart

Create a beautifully simple website in under 10 minutes.

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Remove model drift using control run simulations

Recently, I’ve been trying to remove model drift from my high-resolution CCSM 20th century climate change simulation. The model drift is estimated using the two companion control …

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Updated Hugo Academic theme to sync the upstream repo

Testing the new features of Hugo-Academic theme

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