Yi Ling Hwong

Biography

Yi-Ling Hwong is a research scholar in the Integrated Climate Impacts Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, where she contributes to research on wildfires, agriculture, and solar radiation modification. Her work focuses on combining numerical and statistical modeling to understand complex climate phenomena and their societal impacts, especially in the context of extreme weather events and climate change.

Prior to joining IIASA, she was awarded the EU Marie Curie Fellowship and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), where she developed various approaches to deep convective process modeling and contributed to new theoretical and computational frameworks for convective organization and memory. Previously, as a postdoctoral research associate at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, she worked extensively on atmospheric modeling, focusing on the development and evaluation of convective parameterization in global climate models.

Hwong also worked as a data acquisition engineer at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment during the discovery of the Higgs Boson, where she developed diagnostic tools for the control system of the particle detector. She also held roles in digital communication and science outreach at international non-profits including Doctors Without Borders.

She received her PhD from the University of New South Wales, where her research applied machine learning to investigate trust in climate science on social media.

In 2023, Hwong was the winner of the Marie Curie Actions Science Policy Pitch Competition and the Early Career Researcher Award at the Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) conference for her research and advocacy in climate science.


Last update: 31 JUL 2025