I am student working towards a Combined Major in Atmospheric Sciences and Computer Sciences. It is my interest to improve and to discover ways to utilize computing to answer questions regarding the vast expanse around and above us. As a coop student, I took part in the maintenance and operations of the UBC Bluesky forest fire smoke forecasting system. The program publicly provides two day predictions for air pollution levels across Canada. The system serves users ranging from Provincial authorities to regional safety coordinators in order to ensure that communities at risk can be notified and prepared in a timely fashion.
As well, I am fascinated in the field of remote sensing. Namely, the applications of weather satellites in observing and gathering information about the state of the atmosphere in uninhabited areas excites me. This is particularly relevant to residents of Vancouver as one of the reasons why West Coast weather forecasts are less accurate than the forecasts made for the rest of North America is due to the lack of information about the weather upstream of us, in the East Pacific. Thankfully, there is hope for this data gap to be filled as modern observation techniques are no longer limited to manual operations and could be supplemented with automated alternatives.
Moreover, topics surrounding the ability for devices to interconnect intrigue me. Although web services such as web chats or video streaming are viewed as the norm in society today, the need to provide fast and failure-resistant experience for users pose non-trivial challenges for infrastructural designers. Suffice to say, I am interested in all kinds of clouds, be it distributed digital ones, or buoyant physical ones.
On my free time, I enjoy visiting the aquatics center for an afternoon swim. As well, I adore taking part in the choir at my church.