Who we are

Team

The WACI Lab brings together researchers across plant and soil science, hydrology, agroecosystem, biogeochemistry, remote sensing, AI, and environmental data science.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Bin Peng

Assistant Professor

Dr. Peng leads the WACI Lab and studies how water, nutrient, and carbon cycles connect agricultural productivity to environmental sustainability, combining field and lab measurement, computational modeling, remote sensing, and AI.

4Researchers & staff

7Grad students

3Undergrads & interns

14Lab alumni

Researchers & Staff

4

Michael P. Wallace

Research Specialist

Dr. Yaji Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Jie Yang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Wencheng Qi

Postdoctoral Researcher

Graduate Students

7

Qianyu Zhao

PhD Student

Jiawei Fan

PhD Student

Huan Liu

PhD Student

Yuanxin Song

PhD Student

Haoyuan Yu

PhD Student

Qiaoyu Qu

PhD Student

Runting Chen

PhD Student

Undergraduates & Interns

3

XC

Xinghan Chen

Undergraduate Intern, Computer Science (SPIN, 2026)

Will Capito

Undergraduate Intern

Jake Fujiwara

Undergraduate Intern

Join us

We're recruiting postdocs and graduate students across five research areas. See our open positions.