Xuguo Zhang, PhD

Dr. Xuguo Zhang is currently a Visiting Associate in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health. He holds a BSc and an MS degree in Applied Mathematics from Xi’an Jiaotong University and University College London, respectively. In August 2020, he received his PhD in Air Quality Modeling and Data Assimilation from a cross-disciplinary program at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he was supervised by Chair Prof. Jimmy Fung. Following his PhD, he became a Hong Kong Research Talent Hub (RTH) Postdoc Fellow and later a Research Associate, still working with Prof. Fung's air quality modeling group in the Department of Mathematics at HKUST.

Dr. Zhang's research interests include multi-scale air quality modeling, health exposure science, data analysis and assimilation, dynamic emission projection and mitigation, and the interactions between climate change, air quality, and health exposure.