Dr. Tao Wang is currently a Technologist/Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He graduated from Texas A&M University, working with Dr. Andrew Dessler on issues regarding climate change. His research topics include cirrus clouds and their formation mechanisms in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL), and trace gas, including water vapor (H2O) and chemical (O3, CO, N2O, SF6, etc.), transport in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). Then, he worked with Dr. Sun Wong and Dr. Eric Fetzer from JPL and Dr. Dong Wu from GSFC on topics including cloud vertical structures associated with different climate regimes, clouds' response to water budget, and cloud ice retrievals. Before he came to the United States, he worked on lightning detection and protection at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. He developed a lightning location algorithm for lightning detection arrays applicable to VLF and VHF bands, which earned 4 patents.