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Ching-Yao Lai
Assistant Professor in the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University; Affiliated Faculty of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
Ching-Yao Lai (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Geophysics and an Affiliated Faculty of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford University. Prior to Stanford she was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University. Yao completed her undergraduate study (2013) in Physics at National Taiwan University, PhD (2018) in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, and postdoctoral research in earth science at Lamont Earth Observatory at Columbia University.
Yao grew up in a small town in Taiwan, and came to the US at the start of her PhD. Other than science, Yao likes bubble tea, traveling, exploring nature, photography, and food. She also enjoys playing ping-pong and classical music.