CV

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Education

• Ph.D in Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University (TAMU), USA, May 2019
  • Dissertation title: “A Fast Vector Radiative Transfer Model for Polarimetric Remote Sensing”, supervised by Prof. Ping Yang
• B.S. in Information Engineering (Optoelectronics), Nanjing University (NJU), China, July 2014

Work experience

• December 2022 - now: Assistant Research Scientist
  • Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
• June 2019 - November 2022: Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
• September 2014 - May 2019: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University

Honors & Awards

• Outstanding Research Staff Member Award of Dept. Atmos. Sci., TAMU (2023)
• Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award of Dept. Atmos. Sci., TAMU (2017)
• Heep Fellowship by TAMU (2015)
• Outstanding Graduate of NJU (2014)
• Outstanding Student, Outstanding Model Student of NJU (2012)
• National Scholarship (2013)
• Samsung Scholarship (2012)

Selected Publications

• Atmospheric remote sensing:
  • Ding, J., P. Yang, M. T. Lemmon, and Y. Zhang, 2023: Simulations of Halos Produced by Carbon Dioxide Ice Crystals in the Martian Atmosphere, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103457. [Link]
  • Saito, M., P. Yang, J. Ding, and X. Liu, 2021: A comprehensive database of the optical properties of irregular aerosol particles for radiative transfer simulations, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 78, 2089-2111. [Link]
  • Ding, J., L. Bi, P. Yang, G. W. Kattawar, F. Weng, Q. Liu, and T. Greenwald, 2017: Single-scattering properties of ice particles in the microwave regime: temperature effect on the ice refractive index with implications in remote sensing, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 190, 26-37. [Link]
  • Ding, J., P. Yang, R. E. Holz, S. Platnick, K. G. Meyer, M. A. Vaughan, Y. Hu, and M. D. King, 2016: Ice cloud backscatter study and comparison with CALIPSO and MODIS satellite data, Optics Express, 24, 620-636. [Link]
• Light scattering theory and techniques:
  • Ding, J, and P. Yang, 2023: Lorenz-Mie Theory-Type Solution for Light Scattering by Spheroids with Small-to-Large Size Parameters and Aspect Ratios, Optics Express, 31(24), 40937-40951. [Link]
  • Ding, J, P. Yang, and G. Videen, 2023: On the Relation Between Ice-Crystal Scattering Phase Function at 180° and Particle Size: Implication to Lidar-based Remote Sensing of Cirrus Clouds, Optics Express, 31(11), 18680-18692. [Link]
  • Yang, P., J. Ding, R. L. Panetta, K. N. Liou, G. W. Kattawar, and M. I. Mishchenko, 2019: On the convergence of numerical computations for both exact and approximate solutions for electromagnetic scattering by nonspherical dielectric particles (invited review), Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 164, 27-61. [Link]
• Radiative transfer theory:
  • Ding, J., P. Yang, G. W. Kattawar, M. D. King, S. Platnick, and K. G. Meyer, 2017: Validation of quasi-invariant ice cloud radiative quantities with MODIS satellite-based cloud property retrievals, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 194, 47-57. [Link]
• Radiative transfer model development:
  • Ding, J., and P. Yang, 2023: Tangent-Linear and Adjoint Models for the Transfer of Polarized Radiation, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 80(1), 73-89. [Link]
  • Ding, J., P. Yang, M. D. King, S. Platnick, X. Liu, K. G. Meyer, and C. Wang, 2019. A Fast Vector Radiative Transfer Model for the Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled System, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, p.106667. [Link]
  • Ding, J., Wang, L., Brown, P., and Yang, P., 2021: Radiative Transfer Modeling of An SN 1987A Light Echo —AT2019xis, The Astrophysical Journal, 919, 104. [Link]
• Applications in other fields:
  • Cikota, A., J. Ding, L. Wang, D. Baade, S. Cikota, P. Höflich, J. Maund, and P. Yang, 2023: An independent determination of the distance to supernova SN 1987A by means of the light echo AT 2019xis, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 949(1), L9. [Link]
  • Ding, J., M. Li, M. Tang, and Y. Song, 2013: BER performance of MSK in a ground-to-satellite laser uplink system under the influence of atmospheric turbulence and detector noise, Optics Letters, 38(18), 3488-3491. [Link]

Services

• Reviewer for more than 20 academic journals, including
  • Applied Optics
  • Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research
  • Journal of Quantatitive Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Optics Express
  • Optics Letters
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Professional Association

• Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Member of American Meteorology Society (AMS)