My research focuses on understanding soil microbe and biogeochemical cycles under global change. The major approaches I used in my research include:
- Understanding and mapping the biogeography of soil microbial community.
- Applying AI in ecology research through identifying missing mechanisms in models, predicting ecosystem response patterns, and parameterizing models.
- Improving ecosystem and Earth system models by incorporating explicit soil microbial mechanisms.
- Applying the improved ecosystem and Earth system models to predict biogeochemical cycle under global change and understand the underlying mechanisms.
- Empowering microbial models with genetic data by informing microbe-mediated biogeochemical processes with high-resolution genome information.
Academic Appointment
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN | Apr 2024 - now
- Postdoctoral Research Associate | Environmental Science Division
- Advisor: Dr. Melanie Mayes
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA | May 2022-Apr 2024
- Postdoctoral Research Associate | Department of Biology
- Advisor: Dr. Xiaofeng Xu
Education
University of California at Davis & San Diego State University, CA | Jun 2022
- Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology | GPA: 3.95/4.0
- Dissertation: Multi-scale Modeling of Soil Microbial Control on Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China | Jun 2017
- Master of Science in Ecology
- Thesis: Effects of precipitation change and nitrogen deposition on aboveground net primary productivity in a temperate grassland, Inner Mongolia
Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China | Jun 2014
- Bachelor of Agronomy in Forestry
- GPA: 3.98/4.0
- Rank: 1/28 in Department of Forestry