Assistant Research Scientist

• Principal Investigator on a U.S. Department of Energy funded subcontract with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Technical Support on HEVI-LOAD Augmentation for National-Scale Infrastructure Assessment (May 2026 - Mar 2027)
• A multi-agent AI platform for grid planning and large loads, built on a mixture-of-experts agentic framework
• Offshore wind-powered subsea data centers: siting gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure on clean power
• Exploring the role of iron fuel in low-carbon energy systems

Postdoctoral Researcher

• Led modeling and analysis across four externally funded programs, from problem formulation through model development to technical delivery and presentations to funders
• Plant-by-plant strategies for decarbonizing steel, ammonia, and methanol with clean hydrogen (2024 - 2026)
• Economic and adequacy benefits of regional coordination in decarbonizing China's power system (2025)
• Unlocking offshore wind's potential to advance local priorities and power system decarbonization (2023 - 2024)
• Role of pumped hydro storage in the power system, and decarbonizing the last 10 to 20% of China's power system (2023)

Research Associate

• Organized air pollution prevention and control projects for local agencies in China

Visiting Scholar

• Led a research project on solid fuel use in rural households

Ph.D., Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy

• Committee: Denise L. Mauzerall (advisor), Valerie J. Karplus, Jesse Jenkins, Qiang Zhang, Gang He

M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering

• Advisor: Kebin He

B.S., Liang Xi honors research track

• GPA 91/100 (top 3%), minor in accounting

• Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of Energy subcontract through LBNL, Technical Support on HEVI-LOAD Augmentation for National-Scale Infrastructure Assessment, $25,000

• Growald Climate Fund, Power beyond coal in China, $250,000 (PI Jiang Lin). Conducted the analysis and modeling, and presented results to the funder

• Climate Imperative Foundation, Increasing China's ambition and improving grid stability in the decarbonization of China's power system, $500,000 (PI Jiang Lin). Contributed preliminary analysis and proposal writing

• Energy Foundation China, Analysis of the role of pumped storage in power systems in China, $150,000 (PI Jiang Lin). Provided the modeling results and funder reporting

• University of Cambridge, UK. The role of iron fuels in low-carbon power systems

• Baruch College, City University of New York. Evaluating environmental and climate impacts of low-carbon technologies
• Global Energy Monitor. Aligning local priorities to accelerate offshore wind deployment
• Renewable Energy Institute, Japan. Accelerating offshore wind development for energy security and carbon neutrality

• Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Seminar, LBNL. Heterogeneous effects of battery storage deployment strategies

• AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans (oral)

• AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco (poster)
• Open Energy Modelling Initiative, Stanford University (lightning talk)

• AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago (poster)
• Macro-Energy Systems (MES) Workshop, Stanford University (oral and poster)

• AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans (oral)
• Andlinger Center Annual Meeting, Princeton University (poster)

• AGU Fall Meeting, Virtual (poster)

• Andlinger Center Annual Meeting, Princeton University (poster)

• C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium, Stanford University (poster)

• AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco (oral)

• Best Paper Award, first joint runner-up, Environmental Science & Technology

• PIIRS Graduate Fellowship (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies)

• Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars (2020 - 2022, Princeton Environmental Institute)

• American Tower Best Poster Award (Princeton Andlinger Center Annual Meeting)

• Liang Xi Scholarship (Beijing Forestry University, 2010, 2011, and 2012)

Teaching Assistant

• CEE 334: Global Environmental Issues (Fall 2020, Fall 2021)
• SPI 594S: Climate Change: Science, Policy and Mitigation (Spring 2021)