Mingwei is interested in the future Chinese emissions of air pollutants and their impacts on the air quality over the U.S. through tran-pacific transport using GEOS-Chem model. She is also interested in the health impact of air pollution. Prior to coming to MIT, Mingwei earned her Master’s Degree in environmental engineering at Tsinghua University in China, and her master’s thesis was about the implications of the variations in the interhemispheric difference of CO2 on global carbon fluxes.