Bio

Faculty fellow/member at:

    1) AI Hub for Science 

    2) Center for Geospatial Analytics

    3) Data Science and AI Academy

    4) MARINA– Marine Artificial Intelligence and Research Alliance

Author: 1) How to Build and Fine‐Tune a Small Language Model:
Get the PDF/Epub;        Paper book on Amazon

2) Generative AI for Science:

2026-present        Director of AI Hub for Science;

2024- present       Director of International Affairs, College of Sciences

2024-2025            NC State Provost Faculty Fellow–Global Leadership …

2019- present       Professor

2009- 2019           Associate Professor

2003-2009.          Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 2001 (Geological Oceanography), Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), College of Williams & Mary (W&M), Williamsburg.

M.S. 1995 (Marine Quaternary Geology), Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

B.E., 1992 (Hydrology and Engineering Geology+Marine Geology), Ocean University of China.

https://sealevel.wordpress.ncsu.edu

View Research Publications

2020-2022 World Large River and Delta Systems Source-to-Sink Online Webinar Series

Posts

A New Community-Focused Course for the Geosciences

Leaking Landfills

NC State’s Data Science and AI Academy Upskills the Wolfpack With Practical AI

NC State Faculty Visit Partner Schools and Alumni in Vietnam and Thailand

Keeping Track of Rare Mountaintop Plants with Drones

Area(s) of Expertise

AI and LLM Applications in the Geoscience;
(Fine tuning LLM, Agent and RAG building, Database Admin).

Author: "How to Build and Fine‐Tune a Small Language Model"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3MYWTJK

Large dataset processing and modeling;

Numerical Modeling for Sediment Transport

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Late Quaternary sea-level changes and their paleo-climatic and paleo -environmental implications; see more ...

Flux and fate of river-derived sediment in the marginal sea. Riverine sediment dispersal, transport, and accumulation in different continental margin environments, in particular those delatic and clinoform deposits from the large rivers in Asia, e.g. Yellow, Yangtze, Pearl, Red, Mekong, Irrawaddy, and Salween, etc; see more ...

Land-Ocean Interactions: Postglacial stepwise sea-level rise and formation of various stratigraphic sequences< (Transgressive layer, flooding surface, and depositional hiatus)

Nearshore and Offshore Seafloor Digital Mapping using high-resolution Subbottom Profiler (Chirp Sonar) and Swath Bathymetric Sonar System. see more ...