CV

EDUCATION
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2009-2014    PhD. in Hydraulic Engieering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2006-2009    B. S. in Computer Science (minor), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2005-2009    B. S. in Hydraulic Engieering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
EXPERIENCE

2023-                 Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface
2022-                 Assistant Professor, Dept of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
2021-2022        Postdoc, Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA
2021                  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, VA, USA
2020-2021        Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, AR, USA
2014-2019        Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, TX, USA
AWARDS / RECOGNITION 

2022                Excellent Early-Career Scientists (Oversea) Award, NSF of China.
2019                Best paper award to my first author paper “Universal relation with regime transition for sediment transport in fine-grained                                     rivers” by the International Association of Chinese Youth in Water Sciences (CYwater)
2014                Outstanding PhD. Thesis Award of Tsinghua University
2014                Outstanding Graduate Student of Beijing City
2012                National Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students
2012                Outstanding Young Researcher Award from Ministry of Education of China
2011                Fellowship for International Exchange of Graduate Student
2010                First-class Scholarship in the 253th Tsinghua University Research Symposium
2010                Pan Jiazheng Hydraulic Engineering Scholarship
2009                Outstanding Bachelor Dissertation Award of Tsinghua University 
INVITED TALKS

  1. How does damming on fine-grained rivers counterintuitively raise the flood risk of downstream channels? AGU fall meeting, 2022. (Invited)
  2. Hydrotalks. Webinar series organized by Hydro90 (@hydro90er), 2022. (Webinar)
  3. Amplification of downstream flood stage due to damming of fine-grained rivers. International Association of Chinese Youth in Water Science: Summer Convention, 2022. (Webinar)
  4. River Deltas. The 8th Ning Chien Club for Early-Career Scientists in Sediment Research. Beijing, China, 2022.
  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences Mechanics Institute, Beijing, China, 2022.
  6. Tianjin Research Institute for Water Transport Engineering, M.O.T., Tianjin, China, 2022
  7. Dept of Earth Science, Durham University, UK, 2022. (Webinar)
  8. Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, 2022. (Webinar)
  9. Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Louisiana State University, USA, 2020. (Webinar)
  10. Sediment transport formulation for modeling of lowland fluvial-deltaic morphology. International Association of Chinese Youth in Water Science: Summer Convention, 2020. (Webinar)
  11. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, USA, 2020.
  12. Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, USA, 2020.
  13. Department seminar in Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, USA, 2020.
  14. Institute of River Research, Dept. of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2019.
  15. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, USA, 2019.
  16. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Hawai’i Manoa, USA, 2019.
  17. Change in downstream bedform type, bed material sediment transport regime and flood potential in response to sediment blockage by a dam: can bed degradation increase flooding risk? AGU fall meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 2018.
  18. Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of New Orleans, USA, 2018.
  19. Department of Geography, Durham University, UK, 2018.
  20. Bedload transport: Theory, Experiments and Modeling. in Surface Process Group at Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2017.
  21. Sediment Transport in the Yellow River, China. Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, USA, 2017.
  22. Phase transition behavior of sediment transport at sand-silt interface, across scales from flume to large rivers. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, USA, 2017.
  23. Sediment load phase transition. Institute of River Research, Dept. of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2017.
  24. Sediment transport in the Yellow River, China. College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, 2017.
  25. The exceptional sediment load of a fine-grain meandering river and relation to bedform geometry: an appealing example from the lower Yellow River, China. GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, USA, 2016.
  26. The exceptional sediment load over fine-grained dispersal systems. Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA, 2016.
  27. Sediment Transport in the Lower Yellow River, China. A short course at the 1st International Science Workshop of the Huanghe (Yellow River) Delta, Zhengzhou, China, 2015.
  28. Bedload transport over steep slope. Sino-Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation Program, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2012.