News

2026 The Soil Intelligence Lab opens at the Asian School of the Environment, NTU Singapore, supported by a Nanyang Assistant Professorship to build PASCA — a process-guided, AI-assisted soil carbon foundation model for verifiable carbon dioxide removal. We are recruiting!
Dec 2026 Feng co-convenes two sessions at AGU 2026 in San Francisco: Advances in land carbon cycle modeling and Advances in soil carbon sequestration: processes, management, and scalable storage.
Oct 2026 COUSINE, our coupled soil inorganic–organic carbon model for enhanced rock weathering, is accepted in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
Jul 2026 BINN v1.0, our Biogeochemistry-Informed Neural Network for soil organic carbon, is published in Geoscientific Model Development, covered by the Cornell Chronicle.
Jul 2026 Energy limitation of soil microbes constrains carbon accrual — new paper in Nature Geoscience.
2026 Feng serves as guest editor for The Innovation Geoscience collection on microbial carbon and nutrient use efficiency under global change.
Jan 2026 ScIReN, a scientifically interpretable reasoning network for discovering hidden relationships in the carbon cycle, is presented at AAAI 2026.
Dec 2025 Feng presents the process-guided, AI-assisted soil carbon foundation model at AGU 2025 in New Orleans.
2025 Feng’s PhD thesis is named an Outstanding PhD Thesis in the Beijing Region, and Feng joins the AIMES Land Data Assimilation Working Group’s Scientific Steering Committee as Early Career Representative.
Jun 2025 Burying woody debris in managed forests could remove large amounts of CO₂ — Nature Geoscience, covered by Phys.org and the Cornell Chronicle.
Apr 2024 New paper in Science maps the size, distribution and vulnerability of global soil inorganic carbon.
May 2023 Our Nature paper shows that microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage. It later received the Sino-Eco Best Student Paper award.