CV

2023 -

Postdoctoral Research Staff Member

Climate Analysis Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
2022 - 2023

Postdoctoral Researcher

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland

2016 - 2021
Doctor of Philosophy

University of Maryland
- Major: Atmospheric Sciences
- Dissertation: Remote Sensing of Aerosol and the Planetary Boundary Layer, and Exploring Their Interactions
2012 - 2016
Bachelor of Science

Peking University
- Major: Atmospheric Sciences

2022
- Charles Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award, UMD (Top 4 in all disciplines per year)
2021
- AOSC Best Dissertation Award, UMD
- Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, UMD
- Outstanding Overseas Chinese Student Award
2020
- Best Student Oral Presentation 100th AMS Annual Meeting
- Helmut Landsberg Outstanding Peer Reviewed Publication Award, UMD
- Graduate School Summer Fellowship, UMD
2019
- Green Fund Award, UMD
2016
- Dean’s Fellowship, UMD
- Excellent Thesis for Undergraduate Student, AOS, Peking University
2014
- President’s Fellowship for Undergraduate Research, Peking University
2012
- National First Place in 28th China Mathematical Olympiad (achieved full score alongside five others)

2023 – 2026
Department of Energy, Science Focus Areas:
- Tying in High Resolution E3SM with ARM Data (THREAD), Participant
- Related Works: 2024 ACPD., 2024 GMDD., 2024 GRL
2022 – 2025
Department of Energy, Atmospheric System Research: DE-SC0022919
- Investigation of Surface‐Cloud Coupling over Land Using ARM Observations and Model Simulations, Proposal Writer (80%) and Key Contributor
- Related Works: 2024 GRL., 2023 GRL., 2022 ACP., 2024 Eos
2021 – 2024
National Science Foundation: AGS2126098
- Impact of Surface-Cloud Coupling on Aerosol-Radiation- Cloud-Interactions for Boundary-layer Clouds over Land and Oceans, Proposal Writer (50%) and Key Contributor
- Related Works: 2023 GRL., 2022 npj., 2022 ACP

Panelist, NASA ROSES Panel review; Reviewer for proposals of NASA and NSF
Reviewer for 23 Peer-reviewed journals (Total reviews: 107)
Co-organizer and Committee Member for the 9th COAA International Conference
Guest Editor for Remote Sensing and Atmosphere
Primary Organizer for the Special Issue, Remote Sensing of Aerosols, PBL, and Clouds
Board Member 2021-2023: Chinese-American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (COAA)
Member: American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

Coupling between cloud and land surface changes aerosol-cloud interactions, AGU Annual Meeting 2023, 12/2023. (Invited Oral Presentation)
Decoding the Dialogue Between Clouds and Land, Stanford University, Earth System Science, 11/2023. (In-person Seminar)
Coupling between aerosol, boundary layer, and cloud: a lidar-based study, University of Wyoming, Department of Atmospheric Science, 02/2023. (In-person Seminar)
Coupling between aerosol, boundary layer, and cloud, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Climate Analysis Group, 03/2023. (Virtual Seminar)
New remote sensing methods to determine PBL depth and coupling of continental clouds with surface from lidar, NASA, the AeroCenter-Cloud Precipitation Center of GSFC, 02/2022. (Virtual Seminar)

Teaching Assistant and Occasional Lecturer at University of Maryland:
- AOSC 424: Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Ocean, 2021 (undergraduate-level course)
- AOSC 625: Remote Inference of Atmospheric Properties by Satellite, 2021 (graduate-level course)