My career goal is to be an aquatic ecosystem modeler and be capable of forecasting the ecosystem responses to human activity in order to prioritize environmental management alternatives. Therefore I focused my PhD courses on ecological processes and quantitative skills, and attempted to integrate both of them into my research.

Specifically, I am particularly interested in acquatic invasive speices in the Great Lakes. In my PhD research, I will use an ecological modeling approach to identify whether Ponto-Caspian species invasion or over-stocking of predator fishes caused the significant reduction of alewife population in the offshore Lake Huron community and then to explore sustainable management strategies.