Background
Xiaotian completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he worked on developing statistical models for complex and dependent data. At SAEF, he focuses on (i) data fusion and statistical downscaling for regional climate variables with uncertainty quantification; (ii) propagating the downscaled climate variables and the downscaling uncertainties to biodiversity models; (iii) spatial and spatio-temporal modelling of terrestrial and marine biodiversity; (iv) spatial transfer learning of species distribution models.