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Career

· Research Assistant, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard2025–
· 7.102 Introduction to Molecular Biology, MIT Department of Biology2025–2025
· Undergraduate Lab Assistant, MIT Media Lab2025–2025
· Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry + Artificial Intelligence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology2024–2028
· Full-time National Serviceman, Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)2022–2024
· Island Defence, Singapore Army2022–2024
· Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-level Science / Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Economics, H3 Chemistry, Temasek Junior College2020–2021
· Singapore-Cambridge GCE O-level, St Joseph's Institution (SJI)2018–2019
· Junior High School, Wenzhou NO.2 Middle School2014–2017

Publications (106)

Quantitative assessment of the contributions of climate change and human activities on global grassland degradation
Environmental Earth Sciences · 2014
346
cited
Vegetation dynamics and its driving forces from climate change and human activities in the Three-River Source Region, China from 1982 to 2012.
Science of the Total Environment · 2016
293
cited
Assessing the impact of restoration-induced land conversion and management alternatives on net primary productivity in Inner Mongolian grassland, China
2013
171
cited
Dynamic of grassland vegetation degradation and its quantitative assessment in the northwest China
2014
127
cited
Spatio-temporal dynamics of vegetation coverage and its relationship with climate factors in Inner Mongolia, China
Journal of Geographical Science · 2013
106
cited
Drought-induced dynamics of carbon and water use efficiency of global grasslands from 2000 to 2011
2016
88
cited
Afforestation promotes the enhancement of forest LAI and NPP in China
2020
84
cited
Modeling the dynamics of distribution, extent, and NPP of global terrestrial ecosystems in response to future climate change
2017
81
cited
Community Integrated Earth System Model (CIESM): Description and Evaluation
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2020
80
cited
Application of a normalized difference impervious index (NDII) to extract urban impervious surface features based on Landsat TM images
2015
70
cited
Grazing exclusion reduced soil respiration but increased its temperature sensitivity in a Meadow Grassland on the Tibetan Plateau
Ecology and Evolution · 2016
70
cited
Grassland dynamics in response to climate change and human activities in Inner Mongolia, China between 1985 and 2009
2013
59
cited
Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences
Environmental Research Letters · 2018
47
cited
Assessing the Spatiotemporal Variation in Distribution, Extent and NPP of Terrestrial Ecosystems in Response to Climate Change from 1911 to 2000
PLoS ONE · 2013
46
cited
Grassland Carbon Sequestration Ability in China: A New Perspective from Terrestrial Aridity Zones ☆
2016
44
cited
Inter‐annual and inter‐species tree growth explained by phenology of xylogenesis
New Phytologist · 2022
39
cited
Quantitative assessments of water-use efficiency in Temperate Eurasian Steppe along an aridity gradient
PLoS ONE · 2017
32
cited
Synergistic Effect of Chemical Treatments on Storage Quality and Chilling Injury of Honey Peaches
2015
29
cited
Direct response of tree growth to soil water and its implications for terrestrial carbon cycle modelling
Global Change Biology · 2020
27
cited
Dynamics of grassland carbon sequestration and its coupling relation with hydrothermal factor of Inner Mongolia
Ecological Indicators · 2018
27
cited
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