Brief Bio

L. Ruby Leung is a Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her research broadly cuts across multiple areas in modeling and analysis of climate, water cycle, and extreme events. Ruby is the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), a major effort involving over a hundred earth and computational scientists and applied mathematicians to develop state-of-the-art capabilities for modeling human-Earth system processes on DOE’s next generation high performance computers. Ruby is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and Washington State Academy of Sciences. She is also a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and American Geophysical Union (AGU). She is the recipient of the AGU Global Environmental Change Bert Bolin Award and Lecture in 2019, the AGU Atmospheric Science Jacob Bjerknes Lecture in 2020, and the AMS Hydrologic Sciences Medal in 2022. She was awarded the DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow in 2021. She received a BS in Physics and Statistics from Chinese University of Hong Kong and an MS and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from Texas A&M University. Ruby has published over 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

To learn more about Ruby’s career and work, please visit:

https://www.pnnl.gov/people/lai-yung-ruby-leung

Contact

Dr. Yingxi Shi: president@coaaweb.org