Postdoctoral Scholars and Researchers

Postdoctoral Scholars

Dr. Janet Chen

  • Email

    wchenbn96@g.ucla.edu

  • Education

    Ph.D. 2025, Atmospheric Environmental Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    M.Phil. 2021, Atmospheric Environmental Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    B.Sc. 2018, Applied Chemistry, North China Electric Power University

  • Field of Research

    Air quality modeling; Impact of climate change on air quality; Application of Artificial Intelligence in environmental science; Wildfire Smoke

Dr. Gavin Madakumbura

  • Email

    gavindayanga@ucla.edu

  • Education

    Ph.D. 2024, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
    MSc. 2020, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
    MSc. 2017, Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan

  • Field of Research

    Numerical and AI-driven simulations of fire–weather, fire–climate, and fire–hydrology interactions

Dr. Qian Zhao

  • Email

    qianzhao04@ucla.edu

  • Education

    Ph.D. 2023, Ecology, Peking University

  • Field of Research

    AI-based hydrology forecasts, vegetation dynamics, and seasonal drought projection

Staff Research Associate

Dr. Bo Zhou

  • Education

    Ph.D. 2013, Forestry, University of Missouri Columbia

    M.A. 2007, Geography, University of Missouri Columbia

  • Field of Research

    I am currently working on a NASA funded project that involves the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to develop a web-based tool that fuses existing Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) data with NASA Earth-observing satellite data to produce spatial and temporal extrapolations of AIM variables.