Xiyuan Bao
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Xiyuan Bao
鲍习源
Daly Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Research: Mantle Dynamics · Surface Processes and Interior–Surface Coupling · Machine Learning in Earth Science

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I received my PhD in geophysics from UCLA and currently I am a Reginald A. Daly Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. I explore how Earth’s deep interior flows, deforms, and drives surface change—from mantle plumes to sea-level rise, with simulations, experiments and machine learning. Learn more on the Research page.

Experience

  • Reginald A. Daly Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
    Oct 2024–

  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles
    Mar–Sep 2024

  • Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of California, Los Angeles
    2018–2024

  • B.S. of Geophysics with Honors, University of Science and Technology of China
    2014–2018

  • Minor in Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China
    2014–2018

  • Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Jun–Aug 2017

News

Call for Papers in Machine Learning and Geosciences

PNAS Nexus, the sister journal of PNAS (a gold open-access journal), has announced a call for papers for a special issue on “Machine Learning and Geosciences.” No…
Nov 30, 2025

Talk about graph theory and plumes!

I was invited to give two talks in the same week, at ASU and Princeton. It was exciting and inspiring to discuss our recent work on graph theory and plume tracking with…
Nov 10, 2025

Inivited talk at Brown University

I was inivited to talk about my experimental work on plume dynamics at Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Brown University. A day full of…
Mar 5, 2025
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