group members

Hidden dragon, crouching tiger (卧虎藏龙)

Current Students


    Heewon Yim - Ph.D. candidate

    Research projects:

    • Formic acid formation in urban and rural atmospheres
    • Impacts of volatile consumer products on air quality in Texas

    Weihao Xiao - Ph.D. candidate

    Research projects:

    • Long range transport of dust from Africa

    Alan Gonzalez - Ph.D. student

    Research projects:

    • Climate change impacts on air quality in Texas

Former Students

    Sajjad G. Ali - M.S.

    • Graduate: 2010
    • Thesis: Using a regional chemical transport model for the analysis of gaseous and particulate air pollutants in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area

    Yuan Chen - M.S.

    • Graduate: 2017
    • Thesis: Incremental reactivity of VOCs on ozone and secondary organic aerosol formation under high background pollutant conditions in China

    Minsu Choi - M.S.

    • Graduate: 2020
    • Thesis: A study on secondary organic aerosol formation from chlorine radical initiated oxidation of volatile organic compounds in a polluted atmosphere using a 3D chemical transport model

    Minsu Choi - Ph.D.

    Research projects:

    • Graduate: 08/2024
    • Dissertation: Advanced source and age-resolved chemical transport modeling of Brown Carbon, ozone ,and secondary inorganic aerosol
    • Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at NOAA Global Systems Laboratory

    Sri Harsha Kota - M.S.

    • Graduate: 2009
    • Thesis: Modeling air quality near freeways using a three-dimensional Eulerian model

    Sri Harsha Kota - Ph.D.

    • Graduate: 2014
    • Dissertation: Using local and regional air quality modeling and source apportionment tools to evaluate vehicles and biogenic emission factors
    • Current position: Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

    Anupama Krishnan - M.S.

    • Graduate: 2010
    • Thesis: Source contribution of VOCs to ozone formation in Texas using a source-oriented air quality model

    Jingyi Li - M.S.

    • Graduate: 2010
    • Thesis: Implementation and application of SAPRC07 and MCM mechanisms in the Community Multi-scale Air Quality model

    Jingyi Li - Ph.D.

    • Graduate: 2014
    • Dissertation: Modeling regional air quality using the near-explicit Master Chemical Mechanism
    • M.S.: 2010
    • Thesis: Implementation and application of SAPRC07 and MCM mechanisms in the Community Multi-scale Air Quality model
    • Current position: Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

    Li Wu - M.S.

    • Graduate: 2015
    • Thesis: Regional contributions to primary and secondary PM2.5 components in China

    Peng Wang - Ph.D.

    • Gradaute: 2018
    • Dissertation: Source apportionment of ozone and secondary organic aerosol
    • Current position: Research Associate at Fudan University

    Zhenglu (Michael) Wang - M.S.

    • Graduate: 2018
    • Thesis: Design and field calibration of a low-cost PM monitor

    Hongliang Zhang - Ph.D.

    • Graduate: 2012
    • Dissertation: Source and age resolved mechanistic air quality models: model development and application in Southeast Texas
    • Current position: Professor at Fudan University

    Jie Zhang - M.S.

    • Gradudate: 2015
    • Thesis: Modeling and source apportionment of PAH

    Jie Zhang - Ph.D.

    • Gradudate: 2021
    • Dissertation: Modeling study of precursor-specific secondary organic aerosol and organic tracers
    • Current position: Scientific Engineer Associate at LBNL

Visiting Scholars

    Iris V. Cureño - M.S.

    • Time period: 2011
    • Home institution: National Autonomous University of Mexico
    • Research: Source apportionment particulate air pollution in Mexico City
    • Current Position: Head of the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit for Priority Projects, CFE (Federal Electricity Commission), Mexico

    Adrian Marín Hernandez - M.S.

    • Time period: 2011
    • Home institution: National Autonomous University of Mexico
    • Research: Source apportionment particulate air pollution in Mexico City

    Mingjie Kang - Ph.D.

    • Time period: 01/2020 - 03/2021
    • Home institution: Fudan University
    • Research: Air quality impact due to COVID-19 lockdown; ozone source apportionment
    • Current Position: Lecture at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

    Kezheng Liao - Ph.D.

    • Time period: 10/2019 - 03/2020
    • Home institution: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Research: Source contributions to trace elements
    • Current position: Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    Monica Jaimes Palomero - Ph.D.

    • Time period: 2011
    • Home institution: National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
    • Research: Source apportionment particulate air pollution in Mexico City
    • Current position: Subdirección de Análisis y Modelación, Secretaría del Medio Ambiente, CDMX

    Xue Qiao - Ph.D.

    • Time period: 2014
    • Home institution: Sichuan University
    • Research: Source apportionment of dry and wet depsotion of reactive nitrogen and sulfur compounds
    • Current position: Associate Professor at Sichuan University

    Fengbin Sun - Ph.D.

    • Time period: 2014 - 2015
    • Home institution: Beijing Forestry University
    • Research: Impacts of vegetation on air quality

    Yong Xu - Ph.D.

    • Time period: 2015
    • Home institution: Northwest A&F University, China
    • Research: Biogenic emission contributions to SOA