Xiyuan Bao
鲍习源

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 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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Fire and ice: how Earth’s deep interior shapes its surface

I study the coupled dynamics of Earth’s interior and surface, from mantle plumes to sea-level rise, with simulations, experiments and machine learning. I am a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, with a PhD in geophysics from UCLA.

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Featured work

Science · 2026 A joint geophysical–geochemical map of the deep mantle beneath East Africa and the Indian Ocean Science · 2022 Not all hotspots are hot: the relative temperatures of hotspots and mid-ocean ridges arXiv · 2026 Neural operators reveal how much Greenland ice loss sea level fingerprint can recover arXiv · 2026 · Code SLEvolve: up to 4,000-fold faster sea-level modeling

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Experience

• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  Oct 2026–

• Reginald A. Daly Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  Oct 2024–Sep 2026

• 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