My research focuses on understanding the interrelationship between air, water, and ecosystem in the face of climate change, elevated CO2, air pollution, and different management practices. I use three main approaches: 1) spatiotemporal data analysis to interpret field and satellite observations; 2) machine learning approaches to generate novel datasets; and 3) process-based terrestrial biosphere models to understand the underlying mechanism. My work encompasses a wide range of scales—from the micro-level interactions within individual plants to macro-level regional and global patterns.
Appointment
Duke University | Jan 2025 - now
- Assistant Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment
Carnegie Institution for Science (at Stanford University) | Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
- Postdoctoral Research Associate at Department of Global Ecology
- Advisor: Dr. Lorenzo Rosa
Education
California Institute of Technology | Ph.D | Sep 2016 - Jul 2022
- Major: Environmental Science & Engineering
- Minor: Applied and Computational Mathematics
- Thesis Advisory Committee: Dr. Christian Frankenberg (advisor), Dr. Paul Wennberg (chair), Dr. Yuk Yung and Dr. David Schimel
- Thesis: Agriculture and Its Role in the Global Carbon Cycle
- Resnick Graduate Fellow
Nanjing University | B.S |Sep 2012 - Jun 2016
- Major: Geographic Information Science (with honor)
- National Scholarship (within 1%, 2015)
- Minor: Financial Engineering