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About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley (with Prof. Trevor Keenan) working at the intersection of eco-hydrology, the global carbon–water–energy cycle, and AI. I study how land-surface processes — evapotranspiration, sensible heat exchange, vegetation water stress, and disturbance-driven change — regulate the exchange of carbon, water, and energy between ecosystems and the atmosphere. My work integrates eddy-covariance flux observations, streamflow and remote-sensing data, interpretable machine learning, and Earth foundation models to constrain land-surface behavior from single flux towers to the contiguous US and the globe. Please find my full background on my CV and recent work under publications or on ResearchGate.

My current research spans three themes: (1) land–atmosphere energy partitioning and the energy-balance closure problem; (2) wildfire disturbance and post-fire carbon recovery across North America; and (3) Earth foundation models (OlmoEarth, Prithvi-EO-2, AlphaEarth) for high-resolution carbon and water flux mapping.

News

• 2026: Serving as primary convener of AGU 2026 Session GC127 (Vegetation dynamics and land–atmosphere interactions) and convening an AmeriFlux breakout on AlphaEarth embeddings for the flux community.

• 2026: New manuscript under review at Science: constrained land–atmosphere energy partitioning reveals a hotter, drier future land surface with more limited carbon uptake.

• 2026: Awarded funding for AlphaEarth embeddings for flux mapping ($5,000), Remote Sensing & Fluxes for Real-World Impact ($2,500), and the HeatHack workshop at NCAR ($2,000).

• 2025: Received the NSF NAIRR AI Education Fellowship ($5,000) and Google Cloud Research Credits ($5,000) to run Earth foundation models for surface carbon and water fluxes.

• 11/04/2025: Led the FLUXNET-ECN Workshop: Data-driven methods to correct the energy balance closure problem in FLUXNET datasets, including a hands-on session. Thanks to the FLUXNET-ECN team for the great support.

• 10/22–10/24/2025: Participated in the 2025 AmeriFlux Annual Meeting (@ Tucson). With Wantong Li and Trevor Keenan, we presented a poster on the representativeness of the AmeriFlux and NEON networks for carbon and water flux estimates.

• 09/15–09/19/2025: Participated in the Chapman Conference on the Energy Balance Closure Problem (@ Boulder), presenting the correction framework I developed during my PhD and the open problems I plan to address next.

• 06/23–06/27/2025: Participated in the Deep Learning for Science School (@ LBNL Berkeley), presenting a poster on the potential of geo-foundation models to advance carbon and water flux estimates at the AmeriFlux and NEON networks.

Tools

• HeatFlux — an interactive app for exploring surface energy-balance corrections on eddy-covariance latent and sensible heat fluxes. (More tools coming soon, including global maps of geo-foundation-model-based carbon-flux estimates.)