Dr. Xiaowen currently serves as the Director of the Climate Science Division in the School of Computer, Mathematics & Natural Sciences. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Sciences from Peking University, followed by a PhD in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago. Dr. Li subsequently joined NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD as a postdoc, and eventually ascending to a Senior Research Scientist affiliated with Morgan State University. She joined Climate Science Division at Morgan in Fall 2022. 

Dr. Li’s research interests include satellite meteorology, precipitation physics and dynamics, aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions, regional atmosphere modeling, and climate sciences. Her recent interests include machine learning applications in atmospheric sciences, including data segmentation, microphysics parameterization and satellite data retrievals.