Education

Harvard University Cambridge, MA 2021- Doctor of Philosophy, Environmental Science & Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Class of 2021 Bachelor of Science, Environmental Engineering
GPA: 4.0/4.0 (overall)

Publications

Peer-reviewed

• 8. Westervelt D., Isavulambire P., Yombo Phaka R., Yang L.H.,Raheja G., Milly G.,Selenge J-L.,Mulumba J.P., Bousiotis D., Djibi B., McNeill V.F., Ng N.L, Pope F., Mbela G., Konde J., 2023. A Low-cost Investigation into Sources of PM_2.5 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ACS ES&T Air, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestair.3c00024.

• 7. Zhai S., Jacob D.J., Pendergrass D., Colombi N., Shah V., Yang L.H., Zhang Q., Sun Y., Wang S., Luo G., Yu F., Woo J.-H., Kim Y., Kim H., Dibb J.E., Lee T., Han J.-S., Li K., Liao H., 2023. Coarse Particulate Matter Air Quality in East Asia: Implications for Fine Particulate Nitrate, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23, pp. 4271-4281. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-4271-2023.

• 6. Colombi N.K, Jacob D.J., Yang L.H., Zhai S., Shah V., Grange S.K., Yantosca R.M., Kim S., Liao H., 2023. Why is Ozone in South Korea and the Seoul Metropolitan Area So High and Increasing?, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23, pp. 4031-4044. DOI: 10.5194/acp-23-4031-2023.

• 5. Yang L.H., Jacob D.J., Colombi N.K., Bates K., Shah V., Beaudry E.,Yontasca R.M., Lin H., Brewer J., Chong H., Travis K., Crawford J., Lamsal L., Koo J-H.,Kim J., 2023. Tropospheric NO₂ Vertical Profiles over South Korea and Their Relation to Oxidant Chemistry: Implications for Geostationary Satellite Retrievals and the Observation of NO₂ Diurnal Variation from Space, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23, pp. 2465-2481. DOI: 10.5194/acp-23-2465-2023.

• 4. Yang L.H., Hagan D.H., Rivera-Rios J.C., Kelp M.M., Cross E.S., Peng Y., Kaiser J., Williams L.R., Croteau P.L., Jayne J.T., Ng N.L., 2022. Investigating the Sources of Urban Air Pollution Using Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors at an Urban Atlanta Site, Environmental Science and Technology, *Special Issue on "Urban Air Pollution and Human Health", 56(11), pp. 7063-7073. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c07005.

• 3. Yang L.H., Takeuchi M., Chen Y., Ng N.L., 2021. Characterization of Thermal Decomposition of Oxygenated Organic Compounds in FIGAERO-CIMS, Aerosol Science and Technology, 55(12), pp. 1321-1342. DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2021.1945529.

• 2. Yang L.H., Han B.A., 2018. Data-Driven Predictions and Novel Hypotheses about Zoonotic Tick Vectors from the Genus Ixodes. BMC Ecology, 18(1), pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1186/s12898-018-0163-2.

• 1. Han B.A., Yang L.H., 2016. Predicting Novel Tick Vectors of Zoonotic Disease. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning(ICML) Workshop on #Data4Good: Machine Learning in Social Good Applications, New York, NY, USA. arXiv preprint: arXiv:1606.06323.

In-review

• 4. Lin H., Emmons L.K., Lundgren E.W., Yang L.H., Feng X., Dang R., Zhai S., Tang Y., Kelp M.M., Colombi N.K., Eastham S.D., Fritz T.M., Jacob D.J., 2024. Intercomparison of GEOS-Chem and CAM-chem Tropospheric Oxidant Chemistry within the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2), submitted to ACP.

• 3. Oak Y.J., Jacob D.J., Balasus N., Yang L.H., Chong H., Park J., Lee H., Lee, G.-T, Ha E.-J, Park R.J., Kwon H.-A, Kim J., 2024. A Bias-corrected GEMS Geostationary Satellite Product for Nitrogen Dioxide Using Machine Learning to Enforce Consistency with the TROPOMI Satellite Instrument, submitted to AMT.

• 2. Yang L.H., Jacob D.J., Dang R., Oak Y.J., Lin H., Kim J., Zhai S., Colombi N.K., Pendergrass D.C., Beaudry E., Shah V., Feng X., Yantosca R.M., Chong H., Park J., Lee H., Lee W.-J., Kim S., Kim E., Travis K.R., Crawford J.H., Liao H., 2023. Interpreting GEMS Geostationary Satellite Observations of the Diurnal Variation of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂) over East Asia, EGUsphere [preprint], DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-2979.

• 1. Varon D., Jervis D., Pandey S., Gallardo S., Balasus N., Yang L.H., Jacob D., 2023. Quantifying NO_x Point Sources with Landsat and Sentinel-2 Satellite Observations of NO₂ Plumes, submitted to PNAS.

Report

• 1. Yang L.H., Kim J., Ahn D.H., 2021. Air Pollution: An Introduction to Its Causes, Effects, and Solutions. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea & National Council on Climate and Air Quality of the Republic of Korea. Government Publications Registration Number: 11-1262000-000285-01.

Prsentations

• Interpreting GEMS Geostationary Satellite Observations of the Diurnal Variation of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂) over East Asia.
  • The 104th AMS Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA, January 2024. [poster]
  • NASA and EPA Joint Atmospheric Chemistry Group Meeting, Remote, December 2023. [invited talk]
  • The 14th GEMS Science Team Meeting, Jeju, South Korea, September 2023. [oral]

• Tropospheric NO₂ Vertical Profiles over South Korea and Their Relation to Oxidant Chemistry: Implications for Geostationary Satellite Retrievals and the Observation of NO₂ Diurnal Variation from Space.
  • Joint Science Meeting for TEMPO, GeoXO, & TOLNet, Huntsville, AL, USA, May 2023. [poster]
  • Atmospheric Measurement Group Meeting, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA, December 2023. [invited talk]
  • AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, December 2022. [poster]
  • The 13th GEMS Science Team Meeting, Seoul, South Korea, November 2022. [oral]
  • The 10th International GEOS-Chem Meeting, St. Louis, MO, USA, June 2022. [oral]

• Understanding the Sources of Urban Air Quality Using Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors.
  • The 39th AAAR Conference, Remote, October 2021. [oral]

• Thermal Decomposition Characterization of Filter Inlet for Gases and AEROsols (FIGAERO) coupled with Chemical Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ToF-CIMS).
  • The 37th AAAR Conference, Portland, OR, USA, October 2019. [poster]

Research Experience

Harvard University Cambridge, MA Fall 2021 - present Graduate Research Assistant, Daniel Jacob's Lab - Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Spring 2019 - Summer 2021 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Nga Lee (Sally) Ng’s Lab - Atmospheric Chemistry

Yonsei University Seoul, Korea Fall 2019 - Summer 2020 Global Internship Program Intern, Jhoon Kim’s Lab - Atmospheric Radiation

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Summer 2017 - Fall 2018 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Kostas Konstantinidis’ Lab - Environmental Microbial Genomics

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Millbrook, NY 2015 - 2016 High School Research Intern, Barbara Han’s Lab - Predictive Analytics of Infectious Disease

Mentorship

Lucy Gagnon (Williams College, class of 2024) Summer 2023 Project: Spatial and Temporal Differences in NO2 Column Densities and Implications for Geostationary Satellite Product Applications Across Asia. Co-mentor with Yujin Oak and Loretta Mickley. NSF REU student.

Teaching

EPS 200: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Teaching Fellow) Spring 2023, 2024
Harvard University

CEE 2300: Environmental Engineering Principles (Teaching Assistant) Spring 2018, 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology