Chuixiang Yi is a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York. He previously served as an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University. Yi holds a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from Nanjing University and completed post-doctoral work in boundary-layer meteorology, micrometeorology, and biosphere-atmosphere interactions at UC Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, Penn State University, and the University of Colorado. His research focuses on canopy fluid mechanics, including the development of theoretical models, field observations, and numerical simulations to study the exchange of trace gases between vegetation and the atmosphere. In 2012, Yi was a leading recipient of the World Meteorological Organization's Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award. He was also a Rossby Fellow at the International Meteorological Institute in Stockholm from 2014 to 2015 and a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck in 2022. Yi's lab conducts interdisciplinary research spanning forest ecology, remote sensing, micrometeorology, climate change, paleoclimate, and hydrology. His team aims to apply nonlinear systems theory, stability analysis, resilience, and tipping point concepts to predict potential critical transitions in nature and society in response to climate extremes.