Postdoctoral Researcher, National Central University

Scientific ML & Agentic AI
for Science

I build physics-informed machine learning, agentic AI systems, and the tested software that ships them: neural operators on NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo / CUDA, agents with verifiable cores, and open-source tools other researchers can run. Hydrogeologist by training, AI builder by practice.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo
  • CUDA
  • Agentic AI / RAG
  • LangChain
  • MCP
  • FAISS
  • Hugging Face
  • Streamlit
What I do

Three capabilities, one through-line: make science computable and trustworthy.

Physics-Informed ML

Neural operators and gray-box ODE models that respect the physics. Ported a per-well groundwater model to NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo, benchmarked on GPU, and tested it where it is hardest: wells the model has never seen.

PhysicsNeMoPyTorchNeural operators

Agentic AI for Science

LLM agents wrapped around deterministic, cited, tested trust zones, so the model routes and explains while a verifiable engine computes the answer. Applied to manuscripts, aquaponics design, and water-data pipelines.

RAGTool routingTrust boundaries

Research Software Engineering

Software that ships and survives: packaged on PyPI, 500+ tests, CI, model cards, live demos. Built so a reviewer can reproduce the headline number, not just read about it.

PyPICI / testsReproducibility
Selected work

Projects that show the number, not just claim it.

HydroPhysicsAI probabilistic forecast fan chart
Flagship · NVIDIA stack Python · PyTorch · PhysicsNeMo · CUDA

HydroPhysicsAI

GPU physics-informed neural operators for groundwater: one operator trained across all 61 wells, benchmarked head-to-head against the per-well gray-box ODEs. A real PhysicsNeMo port with .mdlus checkpointing, a CUDA GPU benchmark, leave-one-well-out generalization, and a probabilistic forecast model with calibrated intervals. Honest by design: it openly reports where it trails the gray-box baseline.

  • 0.236 → 0.565 KGE on unseen wells (beats climatology 0.446)
  • 14× faster on RTX 4070 SUPER vs CPU (bf16 AMP)
  • Live Gradio demo, model card, technical write-up, CI
AquaScope hydrologic signatures dashboard
Open source · ★7 Python · Streamlit · PyPI

AquaScope

An open-source toolkit for water data, hydrology, and agricultural water management. 15 unified data sources (USGS, FAO, GEMStat, EU WFD and more), Bulletin 17C flood frequency, FAO-56 crop water, baseflow separation, and an agentic AI engine that scores 26 methodologies and auto-executes 7 pipelines. CAMELS-validated, 500+ tests, on PyPI.

  • 15 global water-data collectors behind one API
  • Agentic recommender: OpenAI / Groq / Hugging Face / Ollama
  • Streamlit dashboard, 500+ tests, reproducible demos
You Agent layer · LLM
collect · route · explain
⌄ validation gate · rejects bad input ⌄
TRUST ZONE — pure · tested · cited
coefficientsmass balancesizingoptimizer
→ sized system · bill of materials · operating envelope · cited sources
Agentic AI · active Python · LangChain · RAG + tool-calling · Ollama / NVIDIA / HF

Agronaut

A personal agronomy agent for aquaponics. Instead of retrieving what a paper said, Agronaut computes the answer for your specific system: a tool-calling LLM collects facts and routes, while a deterministic, fully tested engineering core does the math, now calibrated against an open real-pond dataset. It remembers your system across sessions and reasons over a curated troubleshooting knowledge base. Every result lists the coefficients it used (with sources) and what it does not model, so a confidently-wrong design can never masquerade as complete.

  • Trust-boundary architecture: a tool-calling LLM agent over a verifiable, cited engine
  • Cross-session memory plus a deep troubleshooting knowledge base (DO, nitrogen cycle, pH, nutrient deficiencies, failures)
  • Calibrated against published reference systems and an open real-pond dataset
  • Runs as a Streamlit app or a Telegram agent; pluggable Ollama · NVIDIA · HF; design & optimize need no LLM
  • Underlying research granted Taiwan Utility Model Patent M661364 (2024)
Claude Code
claude > /paper-agent  review manuscript.docx

 runtime    Claude Code plugin v1.5.0
 citations  Semantic Scholar MCP
 guard      anti-fabrication: 0 invented refs

 manuscript.reviewed.docx
Claude Code plugin · ★6 Claude Code plugin · Semantic Scholar MCP · .docx

paper-agent

A Claude Code plugin that turns the agent into a disciplined manuscript collaborator: five modes (draft, review, revise, proofread, audit), citations resolved through the Semantic Scholar MCP (auto-wired on install), and hard anti-fabrication guardrails with pause-and-confirm after every section. Calibrated for hydrology and IEEE journals, with a generic profile for any quantitative-science field and a clean .docx round-trip.

  • Installable Claude Code plugin (v1.5.0) with bundled try-it demos
  • Auto-wires the Semantic Scholar MCP for real, non-fabricated citations (no API key needed)
  • Hydrology + IEEE journals, plus a generic quantitative-science profile
Install in Claude Code /plugin marketplace add Rekin226/paper-agent /plugin install paper-agent@paper-agent
Toolbox

The stack behind the work.

Languages

PythonSQLJavaScript / TypeScript

ML / Deep Learning

PyTorchscikit-learnNumPySciPypandas

Scientific ML

NVIDIA PhysicsNeMoNeural operatorsPhysics-informed modelingNeural ODEsODE calibrationTime-series forecastingUncertainty quantificationSignal processing

GPU / Compute

CUDAMixed precision (bf16 / AMP)Cloud GPU

Agentic AI / LLM

RAGLangChainLangGraphAutoGenMulti-agent systemsMCPFAISSsentence-transformersTool routing / trust boundariesOpenAI / Groq / Hugging Face / OllamaSemantic Scholar MCP

Apps & Data

StreamlitGradioFastAPI / DjangoPostgreSQLHugging Face Hub

Engineering / MLOps

GitGitHub Actions (CI)pytestPackaging / PyPIDockerAzure

Geospatial

QGISGIS analysis

Spoken

French (native)English (advanced)Chinese (working proficiency)
About

I build AI with a scientist’s discipline.

I build AI for science: physics-informed machine learning, agentic AI with verifiable cores, and the tested open-source software that ships them. What sets the work apart is a scientist’s discipline: respect the physics, validate out of sample, and never trust a number you cannot reproduce.

That discipline is earned, not claimed. During my Ph.D. at Feng Chia University I built physics-informed gray-box models of the Chou-Shui Chi alluvial fan in central Taiwan, predicting groundwater across 33 wells with RMSE between 0.07 and 0.24 m. HydroPhysicsAI later scales that approach to a single neural operator across all 61 wells. Hydrogeology is where I learned to make a model honest.

Today, as a Postdoctoral Researcher at National Central University and an Adjunct Instructor teaching numerical analysis with Python at Feng Chia, I work at the seam between scientific modeling and modern AI: neural operators on the NVIDIA stack, agentic systems with verifiable cores, and open-source tools other researchers can actually run. I also founded POUK YAM, a consultancy in water, environment, energy, and agriculture.

Open to research scientist / engineer (AI for science), applied scientist in physics-informed / scientific ML, and geoscience & Earth-systems ML roles.

Education

  • 2019–2023Ph.D., Infrastructure Planning & EngineeringFeng Chia University · GPA 4.2
  • 2017–2019M.Sc., Water Resources & ConservationFeng Chia University · GPA 4.0 · Certificate of Merit
  • 2012–2016B.Sc., Water & Environmental Engineering2iE, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Now

  • 2025–Postdoctoral ResearcherNational Central University
  • 2025–Adjunct Instructor (Numerical Analysis, Python)Feng Chia University
  • 2025–FounderPOUK YAM SARL · water · env · energy · ag · AI

Certifications

  • 2025Autonomous AI Agent Systems & OrchestrationLangGraph · AutoGen · multi-agent · Coursera
  • 2024IBM AI Developer Professional CertificatePython · generative AI apps · Coursera

Awards

  • 2025Paper AwardTaiwan Water Conservancy Association
  • 2019Excellence AwardTaiwan Association for Environmental Sciences (TAES)
  • 20192nd Place Poster AwardSymposium on Groundwater Resources, NCKU

Selected publications

  • A Data-Driven Approach to Establishing Groundwater Reference Levels through Hydrogeological Process Analysis in Central Taiwan. Hydrogeology Journal, 34(1), 2026.
  • Data-driven Gray-Box Modeling for Predicting Basin-scale Groundwater Variations in Central Taiwan. J. Hydrologic Engineering (2024).
  • Estimating the Average Magnitude of Pumping Surrounding Monitoring Wells Using Signal Processing. J. Hydrologic Engineering, 28(4), 2023.
Contact

Building AI for science.
Let’s talk.

Open to research and applied-science roles, collaborations, and consulting.