Jianghuai Liu
Jianghuai Liu received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2017, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Heliophysics Research and Application (HeRA) lab, where he is a graduate research assistant.
His research interests include developing first-principles numerical models that describe the plasma environment in the near-Earth space, and the associated numerical techniques that solve for the governing physics. His work includes the recent expansion of a kinetic ring current model, the Hot Electron-Ion Drift Integrator (HEIDI), by incorporating the inductive component of the electric field resulted from temporal change of magnetic field into the model, and assessing the associated effect on the kinetic evolution of all the ring current ion species.
His research goal is building realistic and self-consistent numerical models and frameworks that are able to capture details of the complicated inner magnetospheric plasma dynamics associated with the perturbation brought by the upstream solar wind shocks, and revealing information that is not easily captured by in-situ satellite observations through modeling techniques. Outside his academic interests, he also enjoys playing cards and basketball.