EDUCATION

2020/09-2024/09, Ph.D. (Earth & Planetary Sciences)

University of California, Riverside
Advisor: Abhijit Ghosh
Dissertation: Connecting the Pre-, Co-, and Post-Seismic Fault Behavior with High-Resolution Seismic Catalog, Statistics, and Source Spectra Analysis [PDF]

2017/09-2020/07, M.S. (Solid Earth Geophysics)

Peking University, Beijing, China
Advisors: Shiyong Zhou & Han Yue
Thesis: Earthquake Detection Method and Fault Zone Imaging Based on Seismicity

2013/09-2017/07, B.S. (Geophysics)

Peking University, Beijing, China
Advisor: Shiyong Zhou
Thesis: Detection of Microseismicity in Xiaojiang Fault Zone, Yunnan, China

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WORKING EXPERIENCE

2024/10-now, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geology

California Institute of Technology
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS)
Resnick Sustainability Institute (RSI)
Advisor: Jean-Philippe Avouac
Projects: Observation, statistics, and physical modelling of induced seismicity

2023/07-2023/09, Graduate Student Intern

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California
Advisors: Qingkai Kong & Arben Pitarka
Projects: Comparative studies on AI phase pickers

2020/08-2021/08, Research Assistant

Institute of Geophysics, CEA, Beijing, China
Collaborator: Lihua Fang
Projects: Seismic data processing and mentoring

2018/06-2018/08, Research Visit

Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, California
Collaborators: Qingkai Kong & Richard Allen
Projects: Developing AI earthquake detection method

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AWARDS

2025

Outstanding Presentation in the Symposium of AI Seismology
Outstanding Reviewer of the Year Earthquake Science
Outstanding Paper of the Year Earthquake Science

2024

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad
SSA Annual Meeting Student Presentation Award (see announcenment)
Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award (UC Riverside)
Outstanding Reviewer of the Year Earthquake Science
Outstanding Presentation in the Symposium of AI Seismology
SCEC Research Travel Award

2023

Roland Blanchard Fund Award (UC Riverside)
Outstanding Paper of the Year Earthquake Science
SCEC Research Travel Award

2022

Shawn Biehler Distinguished Graduate Award (UC Riverside)

2020

Outstanding Presentation (China Seismic Experimental Site Conference)
Outstanding Graduates (Peking University)

2019

TEIJIN Scholarship (Peking University)
Special Graduate Student Scholarship (Peking University)
Excellent Graduate Student Award (Peking University)

2018

National Scholarship (Peking University)
Excellent Graduate Student Award (Peking University)

2016

Outstanding Field Work Award (Peking University)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

T.A., Undergraduate, Structural Geology (17 students), UCR Winter 2023
T.A., Undergraduate, Active Tectonics and Remote Sensing (4 students), UCR Spring 2022
T.A., Undergraduate, Natural Hazards and Disasters (300 students), UCR Winter 2022 & Spring 2023
T.A., Undergraduate, Earthquake Country (300 students), UCR Fall 2021-2023
T.A., Undergraduate, Seismology (20 students), PKU Spring 2019
T.A., Undergraduate, Academic Writing in Geophysics (15 students), PKU Spring 2019
T.A., Undergraduate, Experiments of Seismology (20 students), PKU Spring 2018
T.A., Undergraduate, Introduction of Earthquakes (500 students), PKU Spring 2018-2019
T.A., Undergraduate, Field Training on Seismology (20 students), PKU Summer 2017-2019

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MENTORING EXPERIENCE

I started mentoring students during my Ph.D. Students that I have provided hands-on supervision include:
Longtan Wang and Hongyang Ding from Peking University, Beijing, China
Zhenyu Wang, Long Zhang, Rui Zhang, and Liping Fan from Institute of Geophysics, CEA, Beijing, China
Jun Li from The Second Monitoring and Application Center, CEA, Xi’an, China

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FIELD EXPERIENCE

Sanbagawa Metamorphic Belt, “Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes” field trip (2025/09)
San Andreas Fault & Owens Valley, “Ge 121b. Advanced Field Geology” field trip (Caltech) (2024/11)
Death Valley, “GEO 116. Structural Geology” field trip (UCR) (2023/03)
Anninghe Fault Zone, 100 short-period seismometers (2020/07)
Ningxia, China, 24 broad-band seismometers (2018/10)
Xi’an, North China craton, 21 broad-band seismometers (2017/09 & 2018/09)
Jiuzhaigou aftershock monitoring, 100 short-period seismometers (2017/10 & 2018/01)
Xiaojiang Fault Zone, 20 broad-band seismometers (2016/09)

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SERVICES

• I serve as an early career representative on the AGU Seismology section executive committee (2024-2026).
• I serve as an organizer for the Hewett Club Speaker Series of the EPS department, UCR (2022-2023).
• I serve as volunteer in the Education Outreach Program (GEOP) of the EPS department, UCR, including ShakeOut in UCR campus and “Night of Art and Innovation” (2021-2022), “Classroom presentation on Earthquakes” in Camino Real elementary school (2022)
• I serve as judge for Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA) of AGU Fall Meeting (2021 & 2023-2025)
• I serve as reviewer for Outstanding Emerging Presenters (OEP) Program of AGU Fall Meeting (2026)
• I serve as reviewer for multiple journals and >100 manuscripts, including:
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
  Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  Geophysical Research Letters
  Communications Earth & Environment
  Seismological Research Letters
  Geophysical Journal International
  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  Tectonophysics
  Science China – Earth Science
  Pure and Applied Geophysics
  Scientific Reports
  Seismica
  Earthquake Science
  Earthquake Research Advances
  Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences
  Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese)
  Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  Journal of African Earth Sciences
  Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  Earthquake Research in China (in Chinese)

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