Group Members
Since 2014

Z. George Xue, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Xue has a joint appointment at Dept. of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences and the Center for Computation and Technology at LSU. Dr. Xue is a broadly trained oceanographer with extensive experiences in sediment, nutrient, and carbon dynamics of the Mississippi River-Gulf of Mexico system and the Mekong River- South China Sea system
Curriculum Vitae Google Scholar
Contacts
Email: zxue@lsu.edu
Phone: +1 225 578 1118
Fax: +1 225 578 6513
Xiaochen Zhao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Research; CV)
Xiaochen works on the development of an operational river forecasting system and coupled river-ocean model. She got her Ph.D. degree in Marine Science from LSU.

Yanda "Dan" Ou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Research; CV)
Yanda works on coupled physical-biogeochemical modeling of water quality in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. He got his Ph.D. degree in Marine Science from LSU.
Daoyang "Ray" Bao, Ph.D.
Postdoc Researcher
Daoyang works on coupled river-ocean modeling and combines numerical solution and AL/ML approach to investigate and forecast coastal compound flooding.

Ogooluwa Adeagbo
Ph.D. Candidate
Chaired by Xue
Ogooluwa got his master degree of Physical Oceanography from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanography. He is a 5th-year Ph.D. student working on carbon modeling in the Gulf of Mexico

Yixuan Wang
Ph.D. Candidate
Chaired by Xue
Yixuan got her MS from University College London and is a 5th-year Ph.D. student working on coupled river-ocean modeling and sediment modeling.
Ziyan Lei
Ph.D. Candidate
Chaired by Xue
Ziyan got his master’s degree from the Second Institute of Oceanography, China. He is the 3rd-year Ph.D. student and works on coupled river-ocean modeling and sediment dynamics in the Mississippi Delta region.
Muhamad Farid Geonova
Master Candidate
Chaired by Xue
Farid got his bachelor's degree in Ocean Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandungis, Indonesia. He is an experienced Metocean Data Analyst. He is the 3rd-year master candidate and is interested in operational ocean modeling.
Group Alumni
Since 2014
- Zhengchen Zang, Ph.D. student, graduated in Fall 2019, now Assistant Professor at LUMCON
- Le "May" Zhang, Ph.D. student, graduated in Spring 2025, now postdoc scholar at University of Maryland
- Kendyll Bullock, undergraduate researcher
- Dongxiao "Allen" Yin, Ph.D. student, graduated in Spring 2022, now postdoc scholar at VIMS
- Pengfei Wang, Master student with Ph.D. from Environment Engineering Dept at LSU
- Kim Cuong Nguyen, Postdoc Associate, 2016-2017, now at Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam
- Junguo Gao, Visiting Scholar, 2016-2017, now at First Institute of Oceangraphy, Qingdao, China
- Christopher Kunz, M.S. student, graduated in summer 2015


