Our paper on how heat stress trends disagree across metrics is out in Geophysical Research Letters.
Our paper on wildfire smoke and mortality under climate change is out in Nature.
Joined Google as a Sustainability Data Scientist.
New paper in Science Advances on tropical cyclone exposure and infant mortality.
New paper in PNAS on tropical cyclones and loss of schooling in 13 low- and middle-income countries.
Experience
Sustainability Data Scientist, Google, Mountain View, CA
Research Consultant, UNICEF Evaluation Office — integrating geospatial analysis into evaluations of climate and environmental risk programs for children
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Health Policy, Stanford University — climate change and population health (advisor: Eran Bendavid)
Data Scientist II, Disney+ Hotstar, Beijing
Research Scientist Consultant (part-time), Cervest AI — tropical cyclone and extreme wind modeling
Data Science Fellow, Insight Data Science, Silicon Valley
Education
Ph.D. in Natural Hazard and Risk Analysis, Princeton University Thesis: Statistical Modeling of Tropical Cyclone Climatology · Certificate in Statistics and Machine Learning
B.S. in Atmospheric Physics (with honor) and B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature (double major), Peking University
Honors & Awards
National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 Fellowship
The Katharine McCormick Fellowship
Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
Stanford Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
Finalist, Stanford Data Science Fellowship
Student Award, Symposium on Hurricane Risk in a Changing Climate
Award for Excellence, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund
NeurIPS Climate Change Workshop Travel Grant
Princeton Graduate Fellowship
Outstanding Graduate Award, Peking University (top 5%)
May Fourth Scholarship, Peking University
Teaching & Mentoring
Research mentor for five graduate students on research rotations, on topics including tropical cyclone downscaling, landfall and track modeling, infrastructure failure under extreme weather, and the fiscal impacts of tropical cyclones
Mentor, Stanford Small Science Group — a 10-week research program for local community college students
Instructor, GeoKids — hands-on earth science lessons for elementary school children
Teaching Assistant, CEE 460 Risk Analysis, Princeton University — designed and taught interactive lectures on R programming
Service
Reviewer — Nature Communications; Earth’s Future; Scientific Reports; Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk; Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment; Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences; Climate Change AI Innovation Grants
Ambassador, Women in Data Science (WiDS) — organized and hosted regional workshops with more than 100 attendees
Program Ambassador, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University