Dr. Shih-Wei Wei is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA/UCAR) and the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. He currently is a member of the composition team for the Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integration (JEDI). Shih-Wei received his PhD from SUNY Albany in May 2023. His thesis focused on enhancing the usage of thermal infrared satellite measurements affected by aerosols (i.e., under hazy-sky conditions). Before he joined the PhD program at SUNY Albany, Shih-Wei worked in the numerical weather prediction (NWP) group in the Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan. Shih-Wei’s research interests include aerosol modeling, data assimilation, and the interactions between NWP and air quality. Besides doing research, Shih-Wei enjoys cooking and playing tennis when the weather permits. Hiking is also on his activity list, but it is limited given his busy life.