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Education

• Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Climate Science, University of Washington, 2025
  • Dissertation: The Multiscale Nature of Tropical Convection in Observations and Models
  • Advisors: Peter Blossey and Daehyun Kim
• M.S. in Atmospheric and Climate Science, University of Washington, 2022
  • Thesis: The Enhancement of Precipitation due to Mesoscale Convective Organization
  • Advisor: Daehyun Kim
• B.S. in Physics and Mathematics, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, 2019
  • Graduated cum laude
  • Thesis: Geometric Analysis and Reassembly of Bone Fragments in Anthropology
  • Advisors: Peter Olver and Jeff Calder

Positions

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Seoul National University, 2025 – Current
• Graduate Researcher, University of Washington, 2019 – 2025

Publications

Manuscripts in Preparation & in Press

1. Do-Yeon Kim, Daehyun Kim, and Pedro Angulo-Umana. Tropical convective rain becomes more localized under global warming. In preparation.
2. Pedro Angulo-Umana, Daehyun Kim, Peter N. Blossey, and Do-Yeon Kim. Morphological characteristics of tropical precipitation features producing extreme instantaneous rain rates in GPM and DYAMOND global storm resolving models. Submitted.

Published Articles

1. Shamekh, S., P. Angulo-Umana, and P. A. O’Gorman (2026). Data-driven modeling of stratiform and convective rain area. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, e250178. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-25-0178.1 (in press)
2. Pedro Angulo-Umana, Daehyun Kim, Peter N. Blossey, and Marat Khairoutdinov (2025). Multiscale convective circulations and scale interactions in a global storm-resolving model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 18, e2025MS005032. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025MS005032
3. Pedro Angulo-Umana and Daehyun Kim (2023). Mesoscale convective clustering enhances tropical precipitation. Science Advances, 9, eabo5317. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo5317

Conference Presentations

Talks

• “Multiscale Convective Circulations and Scale Interactions in a Global Storm-Resolving Model,” Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly, Busan, South Korea, July 2025.
• “Multiscale Convective Circulations in a Global Storm-Resolving Model,” 4th Workshop on Convective Organization and Precipitation Extremes, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, June 2024.
• “Multiscale Controls on Oceanic Tropical Precipitation in Observations and Models,” 36th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Long Beach, California, May 2024.
• “Mesoscale Convective Clustering Enhances Tropical Precipitation,” 35th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2022.
• “Quantifying the Enhancement of Tropical Precipitation due to Mesoscale Convective Organization,” 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Virtual, January 2022.

Posters

• “Investigating the Influence of Mesoscale Convective Organization on Tropical Precipitation in a Global Cloud-Resolving Model,” 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, January 2023.
• “Automatic Classification of Anthropological Bone Samples,” Joint Mathematics Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America, Baltimore, Maryland, January 2019. Awarded Outstanding Poster, MAA Student Poster Session.

Teaching

Instructor

• ATMS 211: Introduction to Climate and Climate Change, University of Washington, Summer 2021.
  • Prepared and recorded five virtual lectures per week.
  • Wrote and graded weekly quizzes and assignments.
  • Organized special extra-credit guest lectures given by UW researchers.

Teaching Assistant

• ATMS 442: Atmospheric Motions II, University of Washington, Winter 2024.
  • Led weekly coding-based lab sessions for students.
  • Helped to prepare in-person demonstrations in the UW Oceanography’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
  • Held weekly office hours.
• ATMS 103: Hurricanes and Thunderstorms, University of Washington, Spring 2021.
  • Prepared and recorded exam-review sessions for students.
  • Held weekly office hours.

Peer-Assisted Learning Facilitator

Facilitator in the Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) program¹ at the University of Minnesota. Led twice-weekly review sessions, designed practice problems, and developed active-learning activities under the supervision of the SMART Learning Commons and the University of Minnesota Libraries.

• PHYS 1302: Physics 2, Fall 2018.
• PHYS 1301: Physics 1, Spring 2018.
• MATH 1051: Precalculus 1, Fall 2017.
• MATH 1272: Calculus 2, Spring 2017.
• MATH 1031: College Algebra, Fall 2016, Spring 2018.

Mentoring

Graduate Students

• Do-Yeon Kim, PhD student at Seoul National University, 2025 - present
  • Primary Advisor: Professor Daehyun Kim
  • Research area: Tropical convective precipitation
• Jin Yoo, M.S. student at Seoul National University, 2025 - present
  • Primary Advisor: Professor Daehyun Kim
  • Research area: Convectively coupled equatorial waves

Undergraduate Researchers

• Jon Liu, University of Washington, 2021
  • Project: Moisture-precipitation coupling in global storm-resolving models
• Arjun Subramanian, University of Washington. 2022
  • Project: Heatwaves and global warming in CMIP6 models

Service

Chaired Sessions

• Co-Chair, “Convection III,” 35th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 9–13, 2022.
• Co-Chair, “Precipitation,” University of Washington Program on Climate Change Virtual Summer Institute on Climate Extremes and Climate and Environmental Equity, September 14–18, 2020.

Departmental Service

• Outreach Coordinator, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 2020-2024.
  • Organized and scheduled outreach events, leading demonstrations for audiences ranging from kindergartners to senior living center residents.
• Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, University of Washington, 2022.
• Mentor, Graduate/Undergraduate Mentorship Program, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 2021.

Outreach

• Pen-Pal, Letters to a Pre-Scientist
• Curriculum Co-Author, Science and Social Studies Adventures (SASSA), Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, 2018.
• Communications Team Sub-Lead, Engineers Without Borders, University of Minnesota Chapter, 2016-2018.
• Stage Assistant, Physics Force, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, 2016-2017.

Reviewing

• Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres

Awards and Honors

• Distinguished Service Award, UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 2022.
• Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2021.
• University of Minnesota Maroon and Gold Leadership Award, 2018.
• Participant, Minnesota Multicultural Summer Research Opportunities Program, Summer 2018.
• Erwin Marquit and Doris Grieser Marquit Undergraduate Scholarship in Physics, 2017.
• Undergraduate Mathematics Department Scholarship, 2017.
• Undergraduate Research Opportunities Award, Spring 2017.
• Eagle Scout, 2013.

1. For background on the program model, see Arendale, D. R., & Hane, A. R. (2014). Holistic growth of college peer study group participants: Prompting academic and personal development. Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 31(1), 7–29; and Arendale, David R.; Hane, Amanda, R.. (2016). Peer Study Groups as Catalyst for Vocational Exploration. Journal of Developmental Education, 39(2), 2-4, 6, 8, 10-11, 26-27. ↩