2012.08 – 2016.05    B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, US

2016.08 – 2017.12    M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, US

2018.07 – 2022.05     Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University, US

2025.03 – Present  School of Environment, Tsinghua University, China, Assistant Professor

2022.07-2025.02  School of Environment, Tsinghua University, China, Postdoctoral Researcher

2017.12-2018.04  Center for Atmospheric Particles Research, Carnegie Mellon University, Lab Assistant

Development of Numerical Models for Atmospheric Pollutants; Multi-Media Transfer and Impacts of Air Pollutants; Long-Time Aging of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol

Selected Publications(* corresponding author)

2025

1. He, Y.^#*; Bilsback, K. R.^#; Shrivastava, M.; Zaveri, R. A.; Shilling, J. E.; Seinfeld, J. H.; Zhao, B.; Wang, S.; Cappa, C. D.; Pierce, J. R.; Jathar, S. H. Kinetic Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol in a Weather-Chemistry Model: Parameterizations, Processes, and Predictions for GOAmazon. ACS EST Air 2025, 2 (2), 249–263.

2024

1. He, Y.; Zhao, B.; Zheng, H.; Wang, S.^* Full-Volatility Organic Emission and Oxidation: Key to the Puzzle of Atmospheric Reactive Organic Carbon. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2024.

2. He, Y.; Zhao, B.^*; Wang, S.; Valorso, R.; Chang, X.; Yin, D.; Feng, B.; Camredon, M.; Aumont, B.; Dearden, A.; Jathar, S. H.; Shrivastava, M.; Jiang, Z.; Cappa, C. D.; Yee, L. D.; Seinfeld, J. H.; Hao, J.; Donahue, N. M. Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol from Wildfire Emissions Enhanced by Long-Time Ageing. Nat. Geosci. 2024, 17 (2), 124–129.

2022

1. Bilsback, K. R.^#*; He, Y.^#; Cappa, C. D.; Chang, R. Y.-W.; Croft, B.; Martin, R. V.; Ng, N. L.; Seinfeld, J. H.; Pierce, J. R.; Jathar, S. H. Vapors Are Lost to Walls, Not to Particles on the Wall: Artifact-Corrected Parameters from Chamber Experiments and Implications for Global Secondary Organic Aerosol. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022, acs.est.2c03967.

2. He, Y.; Lambe, A. T.; Seinfeld, J. H.; Cappa, C. D.; Pierce, J. R.; Jathar, S. H.^* Process-Level Modeling Can Simultaneously Explain Secondary Organic Aerosol Evolution in Chambers and Flow Reactors. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022, 56 (10), 6262–6273.

2021

1. He, Y.; Akherati, A.; Nah, T.; Ng, N. L.; Garofalo, L. A.; Farmer, D. K.; Shiraiwa, M.; Zaveri, R. A.; Cappa, C. D.; Pierce, J. R.; Jathar, S. H.^* Particle Size Distribution Dynamics Can Help Constrain the Phase State of Secondary Organic Aerosol. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021, 55 (3), 1466–1476.

2020

1. He, Y.; King, B.; Pothier, M.; Lewane, L.; Akherati, A.; Mattila, J.; Farmer, D. K.; McCormick, R. L.; Thornton, M.; Pierce, J. R.; Volckens, J.; Jathar, S. H.* Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Evaporated Biofuels: Comparison to Gasoline and Correction for Vapor Wall Losses. Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts 2020, 22 (7), 1461–1474.