Dr. Ming Pan is a Senior Hydrologist at the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. He previously worked as Research Scholar (2014-2021) and Associate Research Scientist (2008-2014) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006-2007. He received his PhD degree and MS degree in Hydrology from Princeton University 2002 and 2006 and bachelor’s degree in Hydraulic Engineering and Computer Science from Tsinghua University in 2000. Dr. Pan’s research interests include Large-scale Process-based and Data-driven (Machine Learning) Hydrologic Modeling, Operational Hydrologic Monitoring and Forecasting, Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations, Data Assimilation/Fusion, Global Water Cycle, and Spaceborne Hydrologic Remote Sensing.