Curriculum Vitae of Professor K. N. Liou

APPOINTMENTS

• Founding Director, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, UCLA, 2006-
• Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, 2004-
• Chair, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, 2000-2004
• Director, Institute of Radiation and Remote Sensing (IRRS), UCLA, 1997-
• Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 1997-; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2003-, UCLA
• Chairman, Department of Meteorology, University of Utah, 1996-1997
• Director, Center for Atmospheric and Remote Sounding Studies (CARSS), University of Utah, 1987-1997
• Professor, 1980-1997; Associate Professor, 1975-80, Department of Meteorology, University of Utah
• Adjunct Professor, Meteorology, 1997-; Physics, 1992-2006; Geology and Geophysics, 1992-1997, University of Utah
• Assistant Professor (Res.), University of Washington, 1972-74
• Visiting Professor/Scientist, Caltech/JPL, 2004; U. of Arizona, 1995; Taiwan U., 1995; Peking U., 1991;Harvard U., 1985; UCLA, 1981; NASA/Ames, 1980/81; NCAR, 1975/76

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
       Undergraduate Institution: Taiwan University, B.S., with honors, 1965
       Graduate Institution: New York University, M.S., 1968; Ph.D., 1970
       Postdoctoral Institution: Goddard Institute for Space Studies/Columbia University, 1970-1972

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
   Member: American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, Optical Society of America,
                      American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Engineering,
                      Academia Sinica

  Recognitions
• Received the award certificate for the Nobel Peace Prize bestowed on IPCC for substantial contributions to the work of IPCC, 2007
• Elected an Honorary Member of the Meteorological Society of the Republic of China in Taiwan, 2006
• Elected a member of the Academia Sinica (Chinese Academy of Sciences, ROC), 2004
• Received a Distinguished Achievement Award, Chinese Engineers and Scientists Society of S. California, 2004
• Received a Distinguished Visiting Scientist appointment from JPL/Caltech, 2003-
• Received an Honorary Professorship, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2002
• Elected a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, 2000
• Elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1999
• Received the Jule G. Charney Award, American Meteorological Society, 1998
• Elected an Honorary Member, Chinese American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, 1998
• Received a Creativity Award, Atmospheric Sciences Division, National Science Foundation, 1996
• Elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1996
• Elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, 1987
• Elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 1983
• Received David P. Gardner Fellow Award from the University of Utah, 1978
• Received Founder's Day Award from New York University, 1971

 Committee and Conference Affiliations:
• Chair, Section 12, National Academy of Engineering (Vice Chair, 2006-2008), 2008-2009
• Member, Committee on Membership, 2008-2011; Peer Committee (Section 12), 2003-2006; National Academy of Engineering
• Report Review Monitor and Coordinator, and Report Reviewer, Division of Earth and Life Studies, NRC/NAS, 2002-2008
• Member, Union Fellows Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2002-2006
• Member, Atmospheric Sciences Section Executive Committee, American Geophysical Union, 1996-2005
• Chair, Advisory Committee, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2004-
• Member, Advisory Panel, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, 2005-
• Chair, Visiting Review Committee, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, March, 2004 (and 1999)
• Chair, Visiting Review Committee, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, October, 2003
• External Reviewer, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2004
• Member, Atmospheric Sciences Program Reconfiguration Panel, Department of Energy, November, 2003
• Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1997-2003
• Member, Scientific Committee, Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Absorption of Solar Radiation, American Geophysical Union, January-August, 2001
• Chair, Advisory Panel, Environmental Change Research, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2000-2004
• Convener, Section for Radiative Transfer Theory, International Radiation Symposium, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July, 2000
• Member, Review Committee, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, October, 1999
  
• Chair, First International Asia-Pacific Symposium on Remote Sensing: Atmosphere, Environment, and Space, Beijing, China, September, 1998
• Convener, Radiative Properties of Clouds, International Radiation Symposium, Fairbanks, Alaska, August, 1996
• Member, International Radiation Commission/IAMAS, 1992-2000
• Chair, Scientific Committee, the Inner Mongolia Grassland Surface-Atmosphere Experiment (IMGRASS), 1992-1997
• Chair, U.S. Steering Committee, the Heihe Basin Field Experiment (HEIFE) in western China, 1986-1989
• Chair. Beijing International Radiation Symposium, Beijing, China, August, 1986
• Member, Panel for International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program, Climate Research Committee, NRC/NAS, 1984-1987
• Member, Committee on Clouds and Radiation, IAMAP/IAPSO Joint Assembly, 1985
• Chair, Fifth Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, American Meteorological Society, Baltimore, directed a special Symposium on Clouds, Radiation and Climate, November, 1983
• Chair, Committee on Atmospheric Radiation, American Meteorological Society, 1982-1984; Member, 1977-1984; 1992-1995

 Editorial Affiliations:
• Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, American Meteorological Society, 1999-2005
• Review Editor, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, 1998-1999
• Advisory Editor, Journal of Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (Taiwan), 1998-2009
• Associate Editor, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 1997-2008
• Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, 1997-2001
• One of the Editors, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, and Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 1985-
• Member, Editorial Board, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (China), Acta Meteorological Sinica, 2004-
• Guest Editor, special volume on Clouds and Radiation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1987
• Editor, Atmospheric Radiation Progress and Prospects, Science Press, Beijing and American Meteorological Soceity, 1987

  Graduate Students Supervised:         
       26 Ph.D.s in atmospheric sciences and meteorology

  Authorial Activities:
• Authored and co-authored more than 188 scientific papers in various refereed journals.
• Author of a text and reference book entitled, An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation, Academic Press, New York, (International Geophysics Series 26), 1980 (293 pp); translated into Russian, Chinese, and Arabic. second edition, 2002 (583 pp), translated into Chinese, 2005 (614 pp); second printing 2006.
• Author of a monograph entitled, Radiation and Cloud Processes in the Atmosphere: Theory, Observation, and Modeling, Oxford University Press., New York, 1992 (487pp).
• Presented more than 160 invited and contributed papers at national and international conferences and symposiums and various academic and research institutions.