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

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

Move to Harvard

I just moved to Harvard to work as Reginald A. Daly Postdoctoral Fellow. Excited to start a new adventure on the east coast!
Oct 15, 2024

I was selected for an AGU section award!

I was grateful to receive the 2023 AGU Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Section Award for Graduate Research, check more details here.
Dec 10, 2023
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