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Education, research experience, grants, and professional services.
Contact Information
| Name | Jinxing Li |
| Professional Title | Research Scientist · Machine Learning & Space Physics |
| jinxing.li.87@gmail.com |
Professional Summary
Research Scientist at Persona Identities, formerly a researcher at UCLA. I build machine-learning systems for identity fraud detection, and have a decade of experience leading NASA- and NSF-funded research on Earth’s radiation belts and magnetosphere using spacecraft data and large-scale data-driven models.
Experience
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2025 - Los Angeles, CA, USA
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2019 - 2025 Los Angeles, CA, USA
Researcher
University of California, Los Angeles
Led NASA- and NSF-funded research on radiation-belt physics, magnetospheric waves, and neural-network modeling of the near-Earth space environment.
Education
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2012 - 2013 Los Angeles, CA, USA
Visiting Ph.D. Student
University of California, Los Angeles, Space Physics
- Supervisor: Prof. Richard Thorne
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2005 - 2009 Xi'an, China
B.S.
Xi'an Jiaotong University, Applied Physics
Grants
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2021 NASA - Heliophysics Guest Investigator Open
Principal Investigator — “Characteristics and source of microinjections in the outer magnetosphere” ($527k).
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2020 NASA - Heliophysics Living With a Star
Principal Investigator — “Ring current dynamics and associated wave activity in response to solar wind drivers using machine learning” ($796k).
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2019 NSF - Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
Principal Investigator — “The Generation of Banded Chorus Waves in the Earth’s radiation belt” ($352k).
Teaching
- Machine Learning for Science, Data Analysis with Python, Introduction to Space Physics, College Physics
Professional Services
- Grant Reviewer — NASA Living With a Star; NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator Open; NASA Supporting Research.
- Journal Reviewer — Nature Communications; Journal of Geophysical Research; Geophysical Research Letters; Waves in Random and Complex Media; Geoscience Letters; Advances in Space Research; Physics of Plasmas; Earth and Planetary Physics.
- Primary Convener and Session Chair, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting.
- Committee Member, AGU Global Environmental Change (GEC) Award.
Community Services
- Vice President, Peking University Alumni Association of Southern California (2023–2025).
- Board Member, Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California (CESASC).
- Chair, CESASC Scholarship and Lisa Lu Scholarship (2021–2026).