People

Feng Xu – Principal Investigator

Research Interests: Atmospheric remote sensing; Atmospheric radiation; Light scattering by small particles; Miniaturization of remote sensing instruments

Education:
2008 – PhD in Physics, The University of Rouen, France

Professional Experience:
2019 – Present: Associate Professor, School of Meteorology, The University of Oklahoma
2013 – 2019: Research Scientist/Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
2010 – 2013: Assistant Researcher/NASA Postdoc Program (NPP) fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/University of California, Los Angeles
2008 – 2010: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc fellow, Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Curriculum Vitae: CV_Xu (2023)

David P. Nowicki – Graduate Student

Research Interests: Aerosol and cloud remote sensing; Weather forecasting; Risk communication

Education:
2019 – B.S. Mathematics & B.A. Psychology, The University of Mississippi

Curriculum Vitae: Nowicki_CV_2018

Taozhong Huang – Graduate Student

Research Interests: Remote sensing analysis

Education:
2019 – B.S. Electrical Engineering, The University of Oklahoma

Curriculum Vitae: Taozhong Huang – Resume 2019

Benting Chen – Graduate Student

Research Interests: Remote sensing instrumentation and data analysis

Education:
2016 – M.S. Thermal Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Curriculum Vitae: CV of Benting Chen-USST_20191109

Connor Flynn – Senior Research Associate

Research Interests: Active and passive remote sensing instrumentation 

Education:
1995 – PhD in Atomic Physics, The University of Idaho

Professional Experience:
2019 – now:  Senior Research Associate, School of Meteorology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman
2004 – 2019: Staff scientist level 4, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, PNNL
1999 – 2004:  Staff scientist level 3, Climate Physics Group, PNNL
1995 – 1999:  Post-doctoral fellow, AWU/PNNL

Curriculum Vitae: Flynn_CV_2019

Zhao-cheng Zeng – Visiting Scientist

Research Interests: Remote sensing of atmospheric greenhouse gases and aerosols; Remote sensing and modeling of urban emissions; Remote sensing of coastal oceans

Education:
2016 – PhD in Earth System Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Professional Experience:
2019 – present: Assistant Researcher, JIFRESSE, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/University of California, Los Angeles
2017 – 2019: Postdoctoral Scientist, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/zeng-lab/home