Group members | Atmospheric and Air Quality Modeling Group

	Israt Jahan (08/2020-pres) Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2017 Office: 318 Bronwell Bldg, Storrs Email: israt.jahan ‘at’ uconn.edu
	Lais DaSilva (08/2022-pres) MS candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn B.Sc. Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2021 Office: 318 Bronwell Bldg, Storrs Email: lais.dasilva ‘at’ uconn.edu
	Brian Filipiak (01/2023-pres) Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn (co-advised by Dr. Astitha and Dr. Cerrai) Office: 212 Innovation Partnership Bldg, Storrs Email: brian.filipiak ‘at’ uconn.edu https://brian-filipiak.scholar.uconn.edu/
	Fatemeh Azizpourshoubi (08/2024-pres) Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn M.S. in Environmental Engineering Babol Noushirvani University of Technology B.S. in Civil Engineering Babol Noushirvani University of Technology Office: 318 Bronwell Bldg, Storrs Email: fazizpour ‘at’ uconn.edu
	Sloane Poppei (08/2025-pres) Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn M.Eng. Applied Climate, University of Michigan, 2024 B.S.E. Climate and Meteorology, University of Michigan, 2023 (co-advised by Dr. Astitha and Dr. Cerrai) Office: 212 Innovation Partnership Bldg, Storrs Email: sloane.poppei ‘at’ uconn.edu
	Emily Erickson(08/2025-pres) Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn B.S. Environmental Science, University of Rochester, 2025 Office: 318 Bronwell Bldg, Storrs Email: emily.erickson ‘at’ uconn.edu
	Charlotte Cabral (02/2024-pres) B.Sc. candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn Class of 2027 Email: charlotte.cabral ‘at’ uconn.edu

Past graduate students

Dr. Tasnim Zaman (08/2019-04/2025), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering. Dissertation Title: “Advancing offshore wind prediction and assessment of climate change impacts on wind in the Northeastern United States“. Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, CEE, UConn.

Dr. Ummul Khaira (08/2019-08/2024), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering. Dissertation Title: “On the prediction of extreme weather events for the NE US using NWP and machine learning: tropical storms and winter weather“. Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, CEE, UConn.

Dr. Christina Feng Chang (08/2017-08/2022), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering. Dissertation Title: “On the Development of a Novel Methodology to Assess and Predict Water Quality Indicators by Linking Multi-Media Models and Machine Learning“. Currently: Environmental Engineer at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NC.

Michael S. Walters (08/2017-08/2020), MS Environmental Engineering; Thesis title: “Evaluation of Winter Weather Prediction during Extreme Snowfall Events and an Analysis on Wind Gust Prediction for Non-Convective Rain and Wind Events“.

Dr. Huiying Luo (08/2014-11/2019), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Dissertation Title: “Interpreting the Information Embedded in Observed and Modeled Air Quality Time Series and Using Regional Air Quality Models for Regulatory Policies“. Currently: NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.

Dr. Jaemo Yang (08/2013-08/2018), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Dissertation Title: “Improvement of storm wind-speed prediction for the northeast United States”. Currently: Researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), CO.

Alexander Samalot (08/2014-04/2017), MS Environmental Engineering. Thesis title: “Combined Universal Kriging and Kalman Filter Techniques to Improve Wind Speed Prediction for the Northeastern United States”. Environmental Consultant at Whitestone Associates, Inc.

Ghezae Fisseha (08/2015-05/2018), MS Environmental Engineering (plan B).