I am a professor in meteorology at School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST, formerly Nanjing Institute of Meteorology). I graduated from Department of Meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, and got the PhD degree in Meteorology In 2002. During 2005-2007, I worked with Prof. Robert E. Dickinson as a Postdoc at School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) . My research interests include Land-hydrology-ecosystem-climate Interaction, land surface processes and East Asian climate, climate modeling, climate prediction and climate change.