Vita

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Geophysics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, 2016

Dissertation: Seismic studies of the Tonga subduction zone and the Lau back-arc basin (Advisor: Douglas A. Wiens)

• M.A., Geophysics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, 2012

• M.S., Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2010

Thesis: Seismic evidence for lithospheric strength in northern Tibet and the Hainan mantle plume (Advisor: Y. John Chen)

• Undergrad., Geology, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2007

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

• • 2024–present, Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University

  • 2024–present, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University

  • 2018–2024, Assistant Professor (Endowed Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences from 2018 to 2022), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University

  • 2021–2024, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University

  • 2016–2017, Green Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow, IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego (Mentors: Peter M. Shearer and Donna K. Blackman)

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• • 2023, Member, PI Instrumentation Advisory Committee, EarthScope Consortium

  • 2022–, Member, Subduction Zone in Four Dimensions (SZ4D) Faulting and Earthquake Cycles (FEC) working group

  • 2020–2022, member, GSN standing committee, IRIS

AWARDS & HONORS

• • 2021, National Science Foundation CAREER Award

  • 2018–2022, Geological Sciences Endowment, Michigan State University

  • 2016–2017, Green Scholar, IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

  • 2016, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council

  • 2015, Commencement Speaker, School of Earth & Space Sci., Peking University

  • 2012, Antarctica Service Medal, National Science Foundation

  • 2010–2015, McDonnell Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS IN RECENT 5 YEARS

• • June 2024: NSF SAGE/GAGE Community Science Workshop, Virtual (Invited talk)

  • November 2023, Geodesy and geophysics seminar of the upper midwest webinar series, Purdue University, Virtual

  • December 2022: Invited talk at AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL

  • April 2022: Planary panel discussion and invited talk at SSA Annual Meeting, Bellevue, WA

  • December 2021: Invited talks at AGU Fall Meeting, Virtual

  • May 2021: SSA Annual Meeting, Virtual

  • June 2021: Japan Geoscience Union Annual Meeting, Virtual (Invited talk)

  • November 2020: Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Virtual

  • November 2020: Geophysics and Tectonics Seminar, University of Kentucky, Virtual

  • October 2020: IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Virtual

  • October 2020: Geodesy and Geophysics Seminars of the Upper Midwest, Virtual

  • August 2020: School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Virtual

  • January 2020: Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

FIELD EXPERIENCE

• • SaLOON (Samoa-Lau Ocean Observing Network), 2023 -

  • LEEP (Lake Erie Earthquake exPeriment), 2018 - 2021

  • Cruise R/V Melville at Mariana Islands, 2013

  • POLENET (The Polar Earth Observing Network), 2011 - 2012

  • SPREE (SuPerior Rifting Earthscope Experiment), 2011 - 2012

  • LE-MUSE (Leizhou pEninsula Mantle plUme Seismic Exploration), 2008 - 2009

  • INDEPTH (InterNational DEep Proling of Tibet and the Himalayas) IV, 2009

  • RISE (Research of Tibetan Rift), 2008

  • COLT (Cirum-Ordos Lithospheric Transfer), 2007 - 2009