Ph.D., 1997, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University.

• Thesis advisor: Professor Richard H. Johnson
• Thesis title: Multiscale Variability Associated With The Intraseasonal Oscillation Over The Western Pacific Warm Pool

M.S., 1992, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University.

Thesis advisor: Professor Richard H. Johnson

Thesis title: A Diagnostic Study of  a Midlatitude Frontal Squall Line

B.S., 1990, Department of Geophysics, Peking University, P. R. China

Thesis advisor: Professor Yu-Ling Zhang

Thesis title: Experiments on an Economical Explicit Time Integration Scheme of a Barotropic Primitive Equation Model

Awards and Honors

• 1993-1996: NASA Graduate Fellowship on Global Change
• 1991: Colorado Graduate Fellowship

• 1994-present: a reviewer for Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Climate, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, and NOAA proposals

Research Interests

• Global Hydrologic Cycle and Radiative Energy Budget
• Cumulus Parameterizations
• Tropical observations and diagnostics
• Flying satellites in a GCM