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
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)
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
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
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
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