Staff Profile

Yilang Xu

Preferred Name: Yilang Xu

Postdoctoral Fellow (July 2024–Present), Johns Hopkins University

JOINT PROGRAM STUDENT

APPLIED OCEAN PHYSICS & ENGINEERING

Email: yxu@whoi.edu

Phone:

Office: CO-OP 202 

Address:
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 16
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

CV

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1641-9909

Education

MIT-WHOI Joint Program (June 2018 – May 2024)

Doctor of Philosophy in Civil and Environmental and Oceanographic Engineering

Stanford University (September 2016 – April 2018)

Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Zhejiang University (September 2012 – June 2016)

Bachelor of Engineering in Water Resources and Ocean Engineering

Research Statement

Coastal physical oceanography, numerical ocean modeling, polynya dynamics, gravity currents, polar marine ecosystems.