Dr. Hailiang Shi received a B.S. degree in surveying and mapping engineering from the Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China, in 2004, and a Ph.D. degree in optics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Hefei, China, in 2012. He is the Principle Investigator of the Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Instrument (GMI) data processing and has developed the ground data processing system for this payload with the CAS. His main research interests include hyperspectral atmospheric remote sensing, instrument calibration, and data characterization.