Pubu Ciren earned his B.S. and the M.S. in applied meteorology from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China in 1988 and Ph.D. degree in atmospheric science from University of Bergen, Norway in 1998. He currently is a Senior research scientist with I.M. System Group Inc. , responsible for satellite aerosol detection algorithm development and validation for JPSS and GOES-R program in NOAA/NESDIS. His current principal areas of interest include: 1) satellite-based smoke/dust detection and its application; and 2) application of satellite remote sensing of aerosol in air quality monitoring.