EDUCATION
2015-2020
Ph.D. Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.
Advisor: Patricia Gregg
Title: Modeling volcanic unrest by data assimilation
2012-2015
M.S. Structural Geology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Advisor: Guiting Hou
Title: Geodynamics of earthquake initiation in the eastern North China craton
2008-2012
B.S. Geochemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China.
GRANTS & FUNDING
2022 March
Carnegie Rapid Award Seed Grants (PI)
2020 – Present
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowship
2018 – 2020
NASA – Earth and Space Science Fellowship (PI)
2016 Summer
NASA Funding for Goldschmidt
2015 – 2016
UIUC Dept. of Geology Ph.D. Fellowship
HONORS & AWARDS
2019
R. James Kirkpatrick Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Geology, funded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois
2016
US Student NASA Funding for Goldschmidt 2016
2015-2016
Geology Department Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Illinois
2015
Outstanding Master Graduates of Peking University
FIELDWORK
2018
Field trip in Scotland, UK.
2017
Field trip in Arizona and California.
2016
Research Vessel Atlantis cruise (31-day). OASIS experiment involving multibeam mapping, dredging, Sentry AUV operation, and rock sampling using HOV Alvin at off- axis Siqueiros seamounts, East Pacific Rise.
2014
Active fault investigation in Hebei and Shandong, East China.
2013
Active fault investigation in Xinjiang, Northwest China.
2012
Excursion for Orogenic Geology in European Alps, France.
SERVICE
2019-2020
Chair of School of Earth, Society, & Environment Annual research review committee, University of Illinois
2018
Convener for the AGU 2018 Fall Meeting: (V23G) Combining Monitoring Data with Models to Investigate Volcanic Unrest
2016
The 50th Annual Meeting of GSA’s North-Central Section Student Volunteer
2008-2009
Vice minister of academic department of Student Union, Peking University
INVITED TALKS
2022
The University of Alaska in Fairbanks: Modeling Volcano Breathing: A way to forecast eruptions
Structural Geology & Geodynamics Seminar (48th, Webinar): Rheological controls on volcanic activities
2021
Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory: Modeling Volcano Breathing: A way to forecast eruptions
2020
The Fourth International Young Scholars Geo-Symposium (Webinar), Peking University
International Volcanic Seminar (Zoom): Modeling volcanic unrest by data assimilation (Record)
2018
Invited talk in Peking University: From weather forecast to volcanic eruption forecast
2016
Invited talk in Peking University: Using data assimilation to optimize volcano geodesy strategy.
TEACHING & MENTORING EXPERIENCE
2020
Mentor of Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (SUROP), University of Illinois.
2018-2020
Co-advisor for Brooke Dykstra (UIUC, B.S. excepted 2021). Project: Effect of a trans-lithospheric weak zone on the magnitude of Paleozoic flexural uplift: a case study of the Ozark dome. (2019 GSA poster)
2019
Tutorial on data assimilation, CIDER workshop, Berkeley, CA, USA
Co-Lecture, GEOL593: Mid-Ocean ridge Tectonics, UIUC
Guest Lecture, GEOL350: UIUC, Volcanos
2015-2017
Co-advisor for Sean Griffin (UIUC, B.S. May 2017; Currently Geologist at Citizen Energy, Denver, CO). Senior thesis: Investigating volcanic unrest and eruption potential at the Three Sisters Volcanoes in the Oregon Cascades
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