Ruoying He
North Carolina State University, NC·Earth & Environmental Science
The ocean carries huge amounts of heat around the planet. Measuring how that happens means watching ocean waters closely in regions that are hard to reach and observe for long periods.
- Fields
Earth & Environmental Science
Engineering
- Topics
physical oceanography
Caribbean Sea
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
- Grants
- 2 known grants, through Nov 2027
What they work on
- Test how ocean eddies, steep seafloor terrain and local wind patterns cause regional differences in how Caribbean waters change, using autonomous underwater glider surveys across key passages.
- Run long-term reanalysis and process experiments with the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) to identify what drives changes in Caribbean through-flow transport and mixing within the AMOC.
- Develop a predictive controller for a solar-powered host vehicle that balances data collection against energy use, guided by a new "information value of energy" measure.
- Design energy-aware coverage controllers for drone and glider satellite vehicles that ensure safe meetings with the host, and validate them in UAV and surface-vessel experiments off North Carolina's Outer Banks.
More about the research
The two projects tackle both sides of this challenge. One studies how warm Atlantic waters change as they flow through the Caribbean Sea. The other designs fleets of robotic vehicles that can collect ocean and air measurements for long periods on renewable power.
Why it matters
Better knowledge of how heat moves through the Caribbean could improve hurricane prediction and help communities prepare for ocean hazards. Energy-aware robot fleets could make long-term, autonomous ocean and weather monitoring possible. Such monitoring could support climate studies and coastal observation, such as off North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Yao Fu
University of South Florida, FL·Earth & Environmental Science
Calculate human-made carbon transport across the RAPID array at 26°N (2004–2024) and the subpolar OSNAP section (2014–2024), and test how sensitive it is to changes in the AMOC.
Johanna Rosman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC·Earth & Environmental Science
Simulate constant wind blowing at different angles to a straight estuarine channel using ROMS (Regional Ocean Modeling System) to see how wind direction controls circulation and salinity.
Bruno Sinopoli
Arizona State University Campus Immersion, AZ·Engineering
Establish closed-loop stability guarantees for REAP solvers, optimization methods that return a safe, feasible answer even when stopped early, and develop ways to implement them on discrete-time digital hardware.
The school
North Carolina State University: 40 labs on PI Pages, $717M a year on research, 603 research doctorates a year.
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