Prof. Lian Xie is a Professor at the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University. He earned his B.S. in Meteorology from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in 1982, an M.S. in Meteorology from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography from the University of Miami in 1992. He joined NCSU/MEAS as a Visiting Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Cooperative Marine Science Ph.D. Program in 1992. He served as a member of the U.S. Weather Program Prospectus Development Team (PDT) on Landfalling Hurricanes as well as on the PDT on Coastal Meteorology and Oceanography and received two awards from the National Weather Service for helping to improve the forecasts of storm surge along the coast of North Carolina. He has directed or co-directed over 40 sponsored projects on topics including air–sea interactions, modeling, and predictions of regional, particularly coastal, atmospheric and oceanic coupling processes. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles and over 120 conference papers. His research focuses on marine meteorology.