People
Dr. Scot M. Miller
Assistant professor
smill191 at jhu.edu
Research interests:
Scot Miller leads the greenhouse gas research group at Johns Hopkins.
Link to Scot’s CV.
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Dr. Will Daniels
Postdoctoral fellow
Will’s website
wdanie16 at jhu.edu
Research interests:
Will previously worked on estimating methane emissions from oil and gas facilities. His current research focuses on the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 satellite.
Ao Chen
PhD student
achen152 at jhu.edu
Research interests:
Ao is interested in inverse modeling to better understand methane emissions. Prior to beginning at JHU, Ao was a masters student in Prof. Peter Kitanidis’ group at Stanford University.
Kristan Morgan
PhD student
kmorga46 at jhu.edu
Research interests:
Kristan is interested in carbon dioxide sources and sinks across the tropics and the interplay with soil inundation. She is an expert in the OCO-2 satellite and has worked at NASA Goddard for over six years. She is continuing her work at Goddard while pursuing a PhD.
Mason Liu
PhD student
hanyumasonliu at gmail.com
Research interests:
Mason is interested in exploring NOAA observations of air pollutants, primarily from the oil and gas industries. He aims to understand more about the emissions of these pollutants and how those emissions have changed over times
Qiulun Li
PhD Student
qli88 at jhu.edu
Research interests:
Qiulun’s PhD is co-advised by Scot and by Dr. Kirsten Koehler at JHU. Qiulun is using network of low cost air quality and greenhouse gas sensors in Baltimore to understand how to improve air quality across the city. Before coming to JHU, Qiulun completed a masters at the Emory School of Public Health.
Ziting Huang
PhD student
zhuang51 at jhu.edu
Research interests:
Ziting began her PhD at JHU in September 2021. She is interested in energy systems and greenhouse gas emissions from energy infrastructure. Prior to beginning her PhD, Ziting worked at the World Bank.
Alumni
Dylan Gaeta
PhD student
Graduated Spring 2026
Millie Mi
Undergraduate
Leyang Feng
PhD candidate
Dr. Ruixue Lei
Postdoctoral fellow
Julia Alumbro
Undergraduate
Graduated May 2025
Bowen Bai
Undergraduate
Graduated May 2025
Sharfan Upaul
Masters Student
Graduated May 2024
Lijin Zhang
Undergraduate
Graduated May 2024
Current position: PhD student at Yale
Mingyang Zhang
PhD student
Graduated Feb. 2024
Current position: art student
Daniel Mathew
Undergraduate
Graduated May 2022
Current position: Analyst at Avascent
Saria Malik
High school student
Current position: Student at Western High School, Baltimore City
Current position: undergrad @ JHU
Don Holloway
Masters student
Graduated Dec 2022
Mitchell Kleckner
Undergraduate
Graduated May 2022
Ashley Choy
Undergraduate
Krittika Negandhi
Undergraduate
Graduated May 2022
Cheryl Liang
Undergraduate
Graduated May 2022
Julia Wang
Undergraduate
Austin Wei
Masters student
Graduated Dec 2021
Current position: PhD student
August Weinbren
Undergraduate
Graduated Dec 2019
Current position: UK Met Office
Olin Shipstead
Undergraduate
Aishwarya Javali
Masters student
Jianing Bao
Masters student
Graduated May 2021
Current position: PhD student at Clemson University
Zichong Chen
Postdoctoral fellow
Xiaoling Liu
Post-masters
Graduated May 2019
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Header photo caption: A view Niwot Ridge, Colorado, a long term NOAA greenhouse gas monitoring site. Credit: Scot Miller.