Education
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002.
- M.S., Geology & Geophysics, Yale University,1997.
- M.S., Marine Meteorology, National Research Center of Marine Environmental Forecasts, Bejing, China, 1991.
- B.S., Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University, China, 1988.
Research Interests
- Hydrology and Water Resources
- Water Quality and Ecology
- Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Remote Sensing
- Land-atmosphere interaction
- Mesoscale and boundary layer meteorology
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor,2009-current, Department of Geography, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
- Senior Research Engineer, 2008-2009, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
- Research Engineer II, 2004-2008 , School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2002-2004,Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge,TN.
- Graduate Research Assistant, 1997-2002, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, 1995-1997, Department of
Geology and Geophysics, Yale University.
- Assistant Research Scientist, 1991-1995, National Research Center of Marine Environmental Forecasts,Beijing, China.
Participated in Projects
- Quantifying the relationship between remotely-sensed and modeled soil
moisture, funded by NASA, 1999.12-2001.
- SGP99 field experiment,
Little Washita Watershed, Oklahoma, funded by
USDA and NASA,1999.7.7-1999.7.21.
- DASHMM-Assimilation of
Remote Sensing Data into a Coupled Hydrological-Meteorological Modeling
System Using High Performance Computing Parallel Techniques,funded
by EPA,1997-1999.
- SAR observations and numerical simulations of coastal wind and wakes, Yale University, funded by NASA, 1996-1997.
- The Ninth Chinese Antarctic Scientific Expedition, King George Island (South Shetland Islands),
Great Wall Station,Antarctica,1992.10-1993.12.
- Programming Languages: C++, C, Fortran, HTML
- Software: Matlab, ERMapper, ArcView, Arc/INFO, Transform,
Word, Excel, Powerpoint,xmgr
- Operating systems: UNIX, Windows 95, NT
- AVHRR, ERS-1,2 SAR, JERS-1 SAR, RADARSAT SAR, GEOSAT Altimeter