I graduated from State University of New York at Albany with a Ph.D. in atmospheric science in January 1999. My dissertation work was focused on climate-chemistry interaction, in which I indentified the key physical and chemical processes affecting tropospheric ozone distribution, quantified the direct and indirect effects of anthropogenic activities on tropospheric ozone and climate, and investigated the photodissociation processes of tropospheric ozone from the climate change point of view. Then I was a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at SUNY from Feb 1999-July 2001. My work there covered, 1. Evaluations on MM5 simulated Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) evolution and the Low Level Jet (LLJ) using different PBL parameterizations and the implications on photochemical modeling. 2. Evaluations of various photochemical and meterological models with observed meteorology and ozone concentration, and investigations on the mechanisms causing the discrepancies between the observations and episodic type model simulations of ozone. 3. Studies on the areal extent of the airshed for pollution in the NE US.

I joined CCRC in summer 2001. My research interest is to understand the role of mesoscale meteorology and chemistry in the occurrence of air pollution in New England using modeling tools and data analysis.