{"id":292,"date":"2023-02-28T23:16:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/space\/?page_id=292"},"modified":"2025-04-24T02:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T02:04:25","slug":"donglai-ma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/space\/donglai-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Donglai Ma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About Donglai<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am a Ph.D. student in space physics (UCLA<\/a>), working with Prof. Jacob Bortnik<\/a> at Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I graduated from USTC<\/a> (Gifted Young Class) with two BS degrees in space physics and computer science in 2019. I grew up in Liaoning province, China, and attended Dalian Yuming High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My research interests lie broadly in the space weather and plasma dynamics in Earth\u2019s near-space environment. I utilize a combination of theoretic approaches and explainable machine learning methods to model the electron flux of the Earth\u2019s radiaiton belts. I am also interested in data-driven discovery in the dynamic system to accelerate scientific insights from the increasingly abundant data from satelites. I use massively parallel particle-in-cell simulations together with theory to study nonlinear wave-particle interaction in Earth\u2019s magneotsphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/a>dma96@atmos.ucla.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=AksLcvsAAAAJ&hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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