Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D.

University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

• Advisor - Courtenay Strong
• Dissertation - Teleconnection mechanisms associated with ecologically-relevant climate dipoles

M.S.

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Earth Environment

• Advisors - Guohui Li and Yu Liu
• Thesis - Impact of the ice nuclei on the development of the cumulus clouds over the North China Plain

B.S.

Lanzhou University, College of Atmospheric Sciences

• Supervisor - Yi Yang
• Capstone project - Numerical weather simulation and analysis of a heavy rainstorm

Assitant Professor of the Practice

Earth & Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University

• Downscale precipitation over the Great Salt Lake

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Snow & Ice Lab

Geography Department, University of Utah

• Mentor - Summer Rupper
• Investigating the glacier mass balance and its impacts on the global sea level rise - MAGIC project
• Investigating the glacier-atmosphere interactions - NASA HiMAT project
• Investigating the dynamics of the Alpine glaciers - NSF project

Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah

• Committee - Drs. Courtenay Strong (Chair), John Horel, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Thomas R. Reichler, Benjamin Zuckerberg
• Studied atmospheric teleconnection that driving continental-scale bird irruption and seed masting.
• Conducted sea surface temeprature boundary forcing experiments using Community Earth System Model (CESM2.0), and mentored other graduate students in the lab on CESM process.
• Analyzed Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Climate Model output data and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) data
• Data analyzing tools - Matlab and Python

Graduate Research Assistant

Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Science

• Committee - Drs. Zhaolin Gu (Chair), Yu Liu, Guohui Li, Xuexi Tie, Yongming Han
• Studied aerosol-cloud interaction using Cloud Resolving Weather Research and Forecasting (CR-WRF) model
• Tained in the dendroclimatology lab - studied tree-ring cross-dating and data processing and participated in the dendroclimatology fieldwork
• Data analyzing tools - NCL and IDL

Instructor

• Introduction to Climate Change @ Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University

Lab Instructor

• Geographical Analysis @ Department of Geography, University of Utah

Adjunct

• Climate Change @ Department of Geosciences, Salt Lake Community College

Teaching Assistant

• Climate System @ Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah

Teaching Assistant

• Environmental Stats (graduate course) @ Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah

• Dr. Norihiko Fukuta Memorial Award Best Peer-Reviewed Publication
• Poster Evaluator, Office of Undergraduate Research

• AGU Chapman Conference Second National Conference travel grant
• Rockstars Student Service Award, Department of Geology & Geophysics

• University of Utah Graduate Student Travel Award