Welcome
Research interests:
Earth-Atmosphere Interaction
Multi-scale atmospheric modeling
Inverse modeling and Data assimilation
GHG emissions and Air quality
Atmospheric boundary layer meteorology
My name is Yuyan Cui. I’m an atmospheric scientist and specialized in multi-scale atmospheric modeling and data analysis. Currently, I'm a Staff Air Pollution Specialist (a senior scientist position) at California Air Resources Board. Before that, I was an Assistant Research Professor at Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Penn State. I also worked at NOAA/CSL as a NRC postdoc and a research scientist.
I obtained my PhD in meteorology from Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Saint Louis University, US. Before that, I was an undergraduate student majoring in atmospheric sciences and minoring in public relations from Sun Yat-Sen university, China.
My research activities center around two aspects, forward modeling the concentrations of air pollutants at different spatial scales, and inverse modeling source-receptor relationships to understand emission sources. They all converge to the model-data synthesis frameworks. My overarching goal is to inform the emission reduction policy and improve climate prediction.