Research
- Summer 2026Hong Kong Observatory, summer intern. AI-based tropical cyclone track and intensity prediction: a machine-learning post-processing pipeline for global AI weather models that substantially reduces intensity forecast errors. First-author paper submitted.
- Spring 2026Semester project, ETH Zürich. The resolution dependence of environmental tropical cyclone metrics, using ERA5 reanalysis.
- Spring 2026Computational Statistical Physics final project, ETH Zürich. Critical exponents of the 3D Heisenberg model; it received full marks.
- Summer 2025Summer research, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh. Synchronisation of small scales in two-dimensional turbulence with JAX-CFD, supervised by Dr Jacob Page, with assistance from Dr Dmitriy Zhigunov.
- Summer 2024Summer research, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh. The three-body problem and symplectic integrators, supervised by Prof. Jenni Smillie.
- 2023–24Research team leader, Edinburgh Scientific Researchers Association. Modelling liquid slosh with coupled pendulums and a wave equation.
Interests
Tropical cyclones, numerical weather prediction, climate modelling, and machine learning for atmospheric science.
Write-ups
Final project · Computational Statistical Physics · ETH Zürich · 2026
Simulating the 3D Heisenberg magnet
Ising and Heisenberg spins, Metropolis and Wolff updates and finite-size scaling, with live simulations and the measured critical temperature and exponents.
Semester project · Atmospheric Physics · ETH Zürich · 2026
How strong can a hurricane get?
Potential intensity from the Carnot cycle, when the bound fails, the ERA5 reanalysis, and what regridding and time-averaging do to the inputs.
Methods comparison · tools from summer research, University of Edinburgh · 2025
JAX-CFD and Dedalus on Kolmogorov flow
Two spectral solvers on the same 2D flow: an exact solution, the onset of instability, chaos at Re = 40, turbulence at Re = 2000, cost and gradients, with a live solver.
Summer research · University of Edinburgh · 2024
The three-body problem
History, symplectic integrators and energy drift, a map of periodic orbits with a live 3D view, and the figure-eight proof.
Research problem · Edinburgh Scientific Researchers Association · 2023–24
Modelling liquid slosh with pendulums and waves
A chain of pendulums and a shallow-water wave equation for the surface of liquid in a moving tank, with simulations of both.
Publications
H. Yip et al., A Model-Agnostic Post-Processor for Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Central Pressure in Machine-Learning Weather Forecasts, submitted (2026).
First-author paper from my summer 2026 internship at the Hong Kong Observatory.
H. Yip and J. M. Smillie, An Analysis of the Restricted Euler Problem Using Symplectic Integrators, Edinburgh Student Journal of Science 1(3), 2025.
Written up from my first research project, an eight-week summer project in 2024: an early, exploratory piece of work.