William Yik

  • Program Year: 1
  • Academic Institution: University of Washington
  • Field of Study: Atmospheric Sciences
  • Academic Advisor: Dale Durran
  • Practicum(s): Practicum Not Yet Completed
  • Degree(s):
    B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College, 2024
  • Personal URL: https://yikwill.github.io/

Publications

Yik, W., Sonnewald, M., Clare, M. C. A., Lguensat, R. (2023). Southern Ocean Dynamics Under Climate Change: New Knowledge Through Physics-Guided Machine Learning. NeurIPS Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13916

Hom, C., Yik, W., Montanez, G. D. (2023). Finite-Sample Bounds for Two-Distribution Hypothesis Tests. IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA). https://doi.org/10.1109/DSAA60987.2023.10302643

Yik, W., Silva, S. J., Geiss, A., Watson-Parris, D. (2023). Exploring Randomly Wired Neural Networks for Climate Model Emulation. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems (AIES). https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-22-0088.1

Yik, W., Silva, S. J., Geiss, A., Watson-Parris, D. (2022). Exploring Randomly Wired Neural Networks for Climate Model Emulation. NeurIPS Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning. https://www.climatechange.ai/papers/neurips2022/36/paper.pdf

Yik, W., Serafini, L., Lindsey, T., Montanez, G. D. (2022). Identifying Bias in Data Using Two-Distribution Hypothesis Tests. AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES). https://doi.org/10.1145/3514094.3534169

Awards

Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, 2024

American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowship, 2024

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2024

Finalist, Hertz Fellowship, 2023

Finalist, Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, 2023

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship, 2022