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Henry Yip
Henry Yip

Henry Yip

I am an MSc Physics student at ETH Zürich, from Hong Kong. I work on tropical cyclones and numerical weather prediction, mainly with computational physics and machine learning.

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Research

  • Summer 2026Summer intern, Hong Kong Observatory Machine-learning post-processing of tropical cyclone intensity forecasts from global AI weather models. First-author paper submitted.
  • Spring 2026Semester project, ETH Zürich The resolution dependence of environmental tropical cyclone metrics, using ERA5 reanalysis. Background
  • Spring 2026Final project, Computational Statistical Physics, ETH Zürich Critical exponents of the 3D Heisenberg model; it received full marks. Write-up
  • 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. JAX-CFD and Dedalus compared
  • Summer 2024Summer research, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh The three-body problem and symplectic integrators, supervised by Prof. Jenni Smillie. Write-up
  • 2023–24Research team leader, Edinburgh Scientific Researchers Association Modelling liquid slosh with coupled pendulums and a wave equation. The research problem

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.