Cheng Dang
Project Scientist at UCAR - The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCheng Dang is a Project Scientist at UCAR with a decade of experience combining observational campaigns, laboratory measurements, and large-scale numerical modeling to study radiative transfer and snow/ice optics. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Physics and a Master's in Applied Mathematics, and has developed and implemented radiative transfer schemes for DOE-scale earth system models such as E3SM. His work spans field sampling (over 600 snow samples), lab quantification of light-absorbing particles, and code-level contributions in MATLAB, Python, Fortran and Git-based workflows. Bilingual in English and Chinese, Cheng bridges rigorous quantitative analysis with clear scientific communication, enabling multidisciplinary collaboration across the satellite data assimilation and cryosphere communities. He is particularly adept at translating complex scattering physics into practical model parameterizations used in production-scale simulations.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Atmospheric Physcis, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Atmospheric Physcis at University of WashingtonBachelor's degree, Atmospheric Physics, Bachelor's degree, Atmospheric Physics at Lanzhou University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (51)
fortran10
energy10
climate-science10
earth10
renewable-energy10
climate-change10
snl-applications10
climate-model9
python9
exascale9
forecast8
simulation7
weather7
noaa7
boundaries6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chengdang/MPAS-Model
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Repository for MPAS models and shared framework releases.
Contributions:25 pushes, 13 branches in 11 months
pythonmpas
chengdang/CRTM_local
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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