About

Nov 13, 2019

Hi! I am Haipeng “Jimmie” LIN (林海芃), a Ph.D. candidate at the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group at Harvard University.

Are you looking for my research page? Read more about my work developing and evaluating atmospheric chemistry models coupled with weather and climate here.

Personal Life

I was raised in the wonderful weather of Lisbon, Portugal and later returned to Beijing, China at age 12. I have always been fond of writing code, tracing my roots to modding forum software for a Pokémon community board.

Before coming to Harvard for my Ph.D., I earned my Bachelor of Science in Physics at Peking University (PKU), and studied at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China (RDFZ) before that.

During my final year at Peking University I led the PKU Helper student-developed social app for students, providing mobile services such as classroom and grades info and a pseudo-anonymous social platform. Before leading the team, I was a backend programmer. Disclaimer: PKU Helper is no longer developed, maintained or controlled by students beginning in early November 2020 and we can provide no assurances of its integrity.

Programming

I was born in PHP, raised in Ruby, love Haskell, and write Fortran for a living. I use MATLAB for scientific day-to-day tasks. I also occasionally write Julia, Makefiles, Python (only when compelled to do so by homework assignment), and I regex my way out of problems more often than I admit.

(Human) Languages

I speak Portuguese, Mandarin and English.

Travel

Before the pandemic I was an enthusiastic world traveler and had the priviledge of seeing many places around the world. Now, travel is still uncertain and plagued by unrealistically high airfare prices. But if you scored a cheap airfare to somewhere, chances are that you might see me on board :-)