First Prize, Physics Competition for Undergraduates, China, 2011
Bronze Prize (8th place), International Young Physicists Tournament, Austria, 2010
No.1 in Physics Olympic Competition, Tianjin Province, 2009. (1st place among >100,000)
Second Prize, Physics Olympic Competition China Final, 2009
Twice awarded First Prize, ‘Yaohua’ Cup Competition, Physics & Chemistry, 2008 and 2009
Publications
Kang, W., S. Bire, T. Mittal, J. Campin, J. Marshall, How does salinity shape ocean circulation and ice geometry on Enceladus and other icy satellites? (submitted)
Kang, W., F. Ding, R. Wordsworth, and S. Seager, Escaping outflows from disintegrating exoplanets: day-side versus night-side escape (in press)
Kang. W., S. Bire, J. Campin, C. Sotin, C. German, A. Thurnherr, J. Marshall, Differing Enceladean ocean circulation and ice shell geometries driven by tidal heating in the ice versus the core (under review)
Komacek T., W., Kang, J. Lustig-Yaeger, S. Olson, Leveraging models to constrain the climates of rocky exoplanets (under review)
Bire S., W. Kang, J. Campin, J. Marshall, Regimes of ocean circulation on Europa-like icy moons (in prep.)
Kang, W. and E. Tziperman, Sudden Stratospheric Warming and extreme weathers in the future climate driven by the Madden-Julian Oscillation strengthening (in prep.)
What shapes Ice Shell of Enceladus? AGU (Dec 2020)
(invited) Climate on High Obliquity planets, AGU (Dec 2020)
(invited) Ice and Ocean dynamics on Enceladus, Florida State University (Oct 2020)
(invited)Climate on High Obliquity planets, NOAA, GFDL (Oct 2020)
Climate on High Obliquity Exoplanet, AGU (Dec 2019)
(invited) General Circulation and Thermodynamics on High Obliquity planets, California Institute of Technology (Dec 2019)
Climate on High Obliquity Exoplanet (poster), AOFD (Jun 2019)
(invited) Dynamics and Thermodynamics on High Obliquity planets, Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) (May 2019)
(invited) General Circulation on High Obliquity planets, Atmospheric Oceanic Climate Dynamics Seminar, Yale U, (Mar 2019)
(invited) General Circulation with Reversed Meridional Temperature Gradient, AGU Outstanding Student Presentation (Dec 2018)
Teleconnection between Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sudden Stratospheric Warming in Future Climate, SPARC general assembly, Japan (Oct 2018)
(invited) Teleconnection from Tropics to the Arctic Stratosphere, SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science (SCiCS), Columbia U (May 2018)
Enhancement and suppression of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings by the tropical Madden-Julian Oscillation: the role of the mid-latitude stationary waves, AGU (Dec 2017)
(invited) Teleconnection between Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sudden Stratospheric Warming in Future Climate, Atmospheric Oceanic Climate Dynamics Seminar, Yale U (Nov 2017)
Enhancement of Sudden Stratospheric Warming by the tropical Madden-Julian Oscillation, AOFD (June 2017)
Publicity
“Spontaneous formation of geysers at only one pole on Enceladus’s ice shell” highlighted by PNAS, 2020
ICTP Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics: Multiple Equilibria in the Climate System, ICTP, Italy (Jun 2018)
Les Houches Summer School on Fundamental Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics, Les Houches Physics School, France (Aug 2017)
Using Satellite Observations to Advance Climate Mode, NASA (Aug 2016)
Rossby Palooza, University of Chicago (Jul 2016)
Community Earth System Model Tutorial, NCAR (Aug 2015)