Dr. Baike Xi received her Ph.D degree from the Department of Meteorology at Penn State University in 1999 under the guidance of Dr. Dennis Lamb. Her B. S. degree was from Beijing University, P. R. China. From 1999 to 2002, she worked as a postgraduate research associate at the University of Utah. While there she was involved with the NASA TRMM project and validated the satellite measured precipitation by using aircraft in-situ and ground based measurements during TEFLUN-A, TEFLUN-B/CAMEX3, LBA, KWAJEX, and CEMEX4. She worked at University of North Dakota for 15 years, and partiicipated NASA MAP, NEWS and CERES, NOAA R2O and DOE ASR projects, etc. She is a research professor in the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona. Dr. Xi is currently taking part in the following research projects: NASA Libera, NSF projects. She is also developing sophisticated algorithms/methods to analyze the global surface radiation data. Most of her advised student research revolves around: Investigating aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions; Evaluating GCM cloud and radiation simulations. She enjoys working with students and feels very proud of her students whenever they make any progress.