Yang Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher at IMPACT Center at the University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolYang Wang is a postdoctoral researcher and Ph.D. candidate in Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh with eight years of experience at the intersection of spatial-temporal data mining, time-series analysis, foundation models, and geoinformatics. He combines domain expertise in hydrology and water resources with machine learning to advance AI for climate science and knowledge-guided modeling, having driven research and applied projects at ICSI, the IMPACT Center, and the China IWHR. Comfortable moving between academic research, teaching spatial data analytics, and applied data science roles, he seeks industry positions as a research or applied scientist and machine learning engineer. Notably, his background spans both fine-grained watershed hydrological simulation and cutting-edge LLM/foundation-model research, enabling practical solutions that bridge physical science and modern AI.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Resource-Environment and City-Countryside Plan-Management, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Resource-Environment and City-Countryside Plan-Management at University of JinanDoctor of Philosophy, Hydrology and Water Resources Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Hydrology and Water Resources Science at China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR)Doctor of Philosophy, Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Information Science at University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and InformationMaster's degree, Civil Engineering, Master's degree, Civil Engineering at University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of EngineeringMaster of Science, Hydrology and Water Resources Science, Master of Science, Hydrology and Water Resources Science at Hohai University
Github Skills (8)
particle-physics9
theory9
materials-informatics9
diffraction9
random-walk9
high-energy-physics8
scalable8
python8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mstsuite/MuST
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Multiple Scattering Theory code for first principles calculations
Contributions:15 releases, 104 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 8 months
pythonprinciplesfirst-principles-calculationscalculationsmultiple-scattering
pscedu/MST2
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:64 pushes, 3 branches, 51 tags in 2 years 4 months
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