Education and Degree
2/1995-5/1999, Department of Geography King's College London, University of London, London, Ph.D.
9/1988-8/1991, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, MSc.
9/1980-7/1984, Department of Geography, Peking University, Beijing, BSc.
Academic Positions
4/2005-present. Senior Scientist in the Earth Resources Technology, Inc. at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
6/1999-3/2005. Research Associate and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography/Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University.
10/1988-1/1995. Research Assistant Professor, Research Associate Professor, head of GIS/RS Laboratory, deputy of the Department of Natural Resources and Land Use in the Institute of Geodesy & Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS).
7/1984-9/1988. Research Assistant in the Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS.
Research Experiences and Interests
Applications of remote sensing and GIS in lake environmental changes, crop yield estimates, global runoff and soil erosion, MODIS global land cover and vegetation phenology, long time series of vegetation dynamics, continuity of various NDVI data, biomass burning emissions.