About

I am an R&D Engineer in the Department of Scientific Intelligence and Computing at the National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy (NICE) focusing on AI for Science. Before joining NICE, I was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (School of Information Engineering) at the China University of Geosciences (Beijing), where I taught computer vision and data science courses and mentored students in artificial intelligence, software engineering, and big data majors.

I have hybrid backgrounds in geoscience and computer science. I have participanted in the Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) and EarthCube projects. I am a co-founder of the GISphere Corporation.

I obtained my Ph.D. degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison where I was co-advised by Shaun Marcott and Shanan Peters with a focus on quantitative/data-driven paleoclimate/stratigraphy/macrorevolution, as well as development of geoscientific cyberinfrastructure. I hold a master’s degree from the University of Tulsa where I was supervised by Bryan Tapp with a focus in computational geomechanics.

Education

• Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Geosciences (Geoinformatics), 2018-22
• M.S. University of Tulsa, Geosciences (Computational Geomechanics), 2016-18
• B.S. University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2013-15 & The Pennsylvania State University, Geographic Information Sciences, 2011-13

Pop-sci Books

I authored the following non-academic pop-science books:

• A History of Earth Exploration (Hunan Science & Technology Press/Chinese National Geography，2025) ISBN: 9787571035969
• American History on the Road (Chongqing University Press，2023) ISBN: 9787568928366
• Fossil Hunters (E-Book on Zhihu, 2018)