Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliate, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Assistant Professor, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
Assistant Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Recent Publications
Caylor, K. K., Abatzoglou, J. T., Dalin, C., de Beurs, K. M., Diffenbaugh, N. S., Guan, D., Kopp, R. E., Le Cozannet, G., Mankin, J. S., Mishra, A. K., Mishra, V., Puma, M. J., Reed, P. M., Rulli, M. C., Sadegh, M., Seroussi, H., Trugman, A. T., Zhang, X., & Zhao, L. (2026). Earth's Future: Thematic Areas for a Growing Journal. Earth's Future, 14(3), Article e2026EF008498. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026EF008498
Caylor, K. K., Mankin, J., Rull, M. C., Guan, D., Abatzoglou, J., de Beurs, K., Le Cozannet, G., Dalin, C., Diffenbaugh, N. S., Kopp, R. E., Mishra, A., Mishra, V., Puma, M., Reed, P. M., Sadegh, M., Seroussi, H., Trugman, A., Zhang, X., & Zhao, L. (2026). Thank You to Our 2025 Peer Reviewers. Earth's Future, 14(4), Article e2026EF008660. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026EF008660
Jia, M., Peng, B., Guan, K., Lawrence, D. M., DeLucia, E. H., Knapp, A. K., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Khanna, M., Lombardozzi, D. L., Sturchio, M. A., Kannenberg, S. A., Zhao, L., McCall, J., Tang, J., Bernacchi, C. J., Mwebaze, P., Majeed, F., Lee, D., & Time, A. (2026). Climate-driven divergence in biophysical and economic impacts of agrivoltaics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(10), Article e2514380123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2514380123
Jiang, S., Zhao, Y., Zhao, L., Strebel, D., Derome, D., Ürge-Vorsatz, D., Carmeliet, J., & Peng, J. (2026). Nonlinear impacts of urban size and vegetation cover on global surface urban heat: Insights from 6022 cities. Remote Sensing of Environment, 333, Article 115154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.115154
Zhang, Y., Zhao, L., Chakraborty, TC., Mazumdar, P., Zhang, K., & Gentine, P. (2026). Transfer learning reveals large discrepancies between air and land surface temperatures in cities. Nature communications. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73716-7