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Education, research experience, grants, and professional services.
Experience
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2025 - PresentLos Angeles, CA, USA
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2019 - 2025Los Angeles, CA, USAUniversity of California, Los AngelesLed NASA- and NSF-funded research on radiation-belt physics, magnetospheric waves, and neural-network modeling of the near-Earth space environment.
Grants
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2021NASA - Heliophysics Guest Investigator OpenPrincipal Investigator — “Characteristics and source of microinjections in the outer magnetosphere” ($527k).
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2020NASA - Heliophysics Living With a StarPrincipal Investigator — “Ring current dynamics and associated wave activity in response to solar wind drivers using machine learning” ($796k).
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2019NSF - Atmospheric and Geospace SciencesPrincipal Investigator — “The Generation of Banded Chorus Waves in the Earth's radiation belt” ($352k).
Education
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2009 - 2015Beijing, China
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2012 - 2013Los Angeles, CA, USAUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Space Physics
- Supervisor: Prof. Richard Thorne
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2005 - 2009Xi'an, ChinaXi'an Jiaotong University, Applied Physics
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.