Curriculum Vitae

Education: 

• 2012: Ph.D in Geophysics, California Institute of Technology.

• 2009: MSc in Geophysics, California Institute of Technology.

• 2007: BSc in Geosciences, Nanjing University.

Employment:

• 2025-present: Professor of Geophysics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles.

• 2019-2025: Associate Professor of Geophysics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles.

• 2014-2019: Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles.

• 2012-2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of California, Berkeley.

Honors:

• 2019: NSF CAREER AWARD, National Science Foundation.

• 2015:  Hellman Fellowship, UCLA.

• 2014:  The Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Chair in Physics and Geophysics, UCLA.

• 2012:  Student Presentation Award, SSA (Seismological Society of America).

• 2011: Best Young Scientist Award, CTBT (Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty ).

• 2007-2008: Frontiers in Geochemistry Fellowship, Caltech.

• 2003-2006: Fundamental Geosciences Scholarship, Nanjing University

Awarded Proposals:

• NSF Geophysics EAR 1833532 2019-2025: ” Investigating earthquake nucleation and rupture dynamics while reducing the hazard vulnerability of the immigrant community ” (Single PI)

• NSF Geophysics EAR 1833532 2018-2020: ”A New Adjoint-state Full Waveform Tsunami Source Imaging Method ” (Single PI)

• NSF Geophysics EAR 1723192 2017-2019: ”Detecting Offshore Seismicity by Combining Back-Projection and Matched Filter Analysis ” (Single PI)

• UC MEXUS 2017: “Discovering the connection between slow slip events and large megathrust events in Mexico” (Co-PI) 

• USC SCEC 2017: “Characterizing Seismic Site Conditions in Southern California Based on Topographically Induced Stress and Bedrock Fractures” (Co-PI)

• USC SCEC 2017: “Searching for the Deep Seismic Activity in the Roots of the San Andreas Fault” (lead-PI) 

• UCLA COR Faculty Research Grant 2017: ”Imaging the Deep Seismic Activity in The Roots of the San Andreas Fault” (Single PI)

• UCLA OVCR Transdisciplinary Seed Grant 2017, Big Data Initiatives: “Searching for repeating foreshocks by data-mining massive continuous seismic waveforms” (Single PI)

• UCLA COR Faculty Research Grant 2016: ”Array-Based Earthquake Early Warning System Using Low-Cost Seismic Sensors” (Single PI)

• NSF EarthScope EAR 1614609 2016-2018: “Improving Earthquake Back-Projection Imaging with a Novel Physics-Based Aftershock Calibration Approach” (Single PI)

• Hellman Fellowship 2015: “A novel tsunami warning system based on seismic antenna” (Single PI)

Teaching Experience:

• 2014-present: Teaching "Applied Geophysics" (EPS135, EPS136A),"Earthquakes" (EPS8), and "Introduction to Seismology (EPS122/222)", UCLA. 

• 2012: Mentoring Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows, Caltech. 

• 2008-2011: Teaching assistant, Caltech. 

Professional Service:

• 2011-present : reviewers on GRL, JGR, GJI, Science, Nature Geosciences, BSSA, SRL, Tectophysics, Scientific Report and NSF proposals.