Yufang Jin is an assistant professor of remote sensing and ecosystem change at UC Davis's Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, and associate environmental scientist at the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Jin received her Bachelor of Science in atmospheric physics in 1995 from Peking University, in Beijing, China.
[2] After receiving her Ph.D., Jin worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Geography of Boston University.
[4] In 2005, she entered University of California Irvine's Department of Earth System Science, and began her work as an assistant and associate research scientist.
Jin has remained in the UC system, and since 2014 has worked as an assistant professor in remote sensing and ecosystem change for the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources at University of California, Davis/[5] Her research uses satellite modeling to observe the biogeophysical properties of land and monitor how they are changing.