👋 Hi there

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong.

I have been working on near-real-time carbon accounting, greenhouse gas budget reconciliation and sustainability data research. I have more than + publications, with an h-index of and a total of

If you are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to email me. We are hiring interns!

🔗 HOMEPAGES

• 📄 Curriculum Vitae
• Personal Pages: https://zhudeng.top
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bzZYiBgAAAAJ
• 🔥 Carbon Monitor: https://carbonmonitor.org

🌟 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais, Liting Hu, et al. Global Greenhouse Gas Reconciliation 2022. Earth System Science Data Discussion (Preprint). 2024.
2. Zhu Liu†, Zhu Deng†, Biqing Zhu, et al. Global patterns of daily CO2 emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-19. Nature Geoscience. 2022.
3. Zhu Deng†, Philippe Ciais†, Zitely A Tzompa-Sosa, et al. Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions. Earth System Science Data. 2022.
4. Zhu Liu†, Philippe Ciais†, Zhu Deng†, et al. Carbon Monitor, a near-real-time daily dataset of global CO2 emission from fossil fuel and cement production. Scientific Data. 2020.
5. Zhu Liu†, Philippe Ciais†, Zhu Deng†, et al. Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Communications. 2020.

Full list of publications

🌍 EXPERIENCE

💼 WORKING EXPERIENCE

• Post-doctoral Research Fellow, 2024-present
  Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong
  Supervised by Prof. Peng Gong
• Research Assistant / Senior Algorithm Engineer, 2022-2024
  Alibaba Innovative Research: Alibaba Cloud & Tsinghua University

🎓 EDUCATIONS

• Ph.D., Ecology, 2016-2022
  Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  Supervised by Prof. Zhu Liu & Prof. Philippe Ciais
• B.S., Geographic Information System & Remote Sensing, 2012-2016
  School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

🎖 HONORS AND AWARDS

• RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme 2024/25, 2024
• Outstanding graduates of Beijing (北京市优秀毕业生, Top 5%), 2022
• Jiang Nanxiang Scholarship (蒋南翔奖学金, Top 1%), 2021
• National Scholarship (国家奖学金, Top 1%), 2020

💬 INVITED TALKS

• IPCC Expert Meeting on Reconciling Land Use Change Emissions, Ispra, Italy, 2024
• Global Youth Summit on Net-Zero Future, Beijing, China, 2021
• 2021 Sino-American Youth Dialogue, Beijing, China, 2021
• ESA-CCI RECCAP2 progress meeting, Virtual meeting, 2021

📚 PUBLICATIONS

🌳 2024

• Yi Zou, Mengying Shi, Zhongjie Chen, Zhu Deng*, ZongXiong Lei, Zihan Zeng, Shiming Yang, HongXiang Tong, Lei Xiao, Wenwen Zhou. ESGReveal: An LLM-based approach for extracting structured data from ESG reports. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2024.
  
• Chenxi Lu, Yingjian Huang, Ying Yu, Jiawei Hu, Huibin Mo, Yun Li, Da Huo, Xuanren Song, Xiaoting Huang, Yun Sun, Kai Liu, Shaohui Zhang, Karyn Morrissey, Jinpyo Hong, Zhu Deng, Zhuanjia Du, Felix Creutzig, Zhu Liu. Health co-benefits of post-COVID-19 low-carbon recovery in Chinese cities. Nature Cities. 2024.
  
• Yingjian Huang, Jinpei Ou, Zhu Deng, Wenwen Zhou, Yuchen Liang, Xiaolei Huang. Peak patterns and drivers of city-level daily CO2 emissions in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2024.
  
• Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais, Liting Hu, Adrien Martinez, Marielle Saunois, Rona L Thompson, Kushal Tibrewal, Wouter Peters, Brendan Byrne, Giacomo Grassi, Paul I Palmer, Ingrid T Luijkx, Zhu Liu, Junjie Liu, Xuekun Fang, Tengjiao Wang, Hanqin Tian, Katsumasa Tanaka, Ana Bastos, Stephen Sitch, Benjamin Poulter, Clément Albergel, Aki Tsuruta, Shamil Maksyutov, Rajesh Janardanan, Yosuke Niwa, Bo Zheng, Joël Thanwerdas, Dmitry Belikov, Arjo Segers, Frédéric Chevallier. Global Greenhouse Gas Reconciliation 2022. Earth System Science Data Discussion (Preprint). 2024.
  
• Xiaoting Huang, Zhu Deng, Fei Jiang, Minqiang Zhou, Xiaojuan Lin, Zhu Liu, Muyan Peng. Improved Consistency of Satellite XCO2 Retrievals Based on Machine Learning. Geophysical Research Letters. 2024.
  
• Léna Gurriaran, Yannig Goude, Katsumasa Tanaka, Biqing Zhu, Zhu Deng, Xuanren Song, Philippe Ciais. Carbon Monitor Power-Simulators (CMP-SIM v1.0) across countries: a data-driven approach to simulate daily power generation. Geoscientific Model Development. 2024.
  
• Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Steven J. Davis, Philippe Ciais. Global carbon emissions in 2023. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2024.
  
• Biao Luo, Jinjie Liu, Zhu Deng, Can Yuan, Qingrun Yang, Lei Xiao, Yucong Xie, Fanke Zhou, Wenwen Zhou, Zhu Liu. AutoPCF: A Novel Automatic Product Carbon Footprint Estimation Framework Based on Large Language Models. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series. 2024.
  
• Kushal Tibrewal, Philippe Ciais, Marielle Saunois, Adrien Martinez, Xin Lin, Joel Thanwerdas, Zhu Deng, Frederic Chevallier, Clément Giron, Clément Albergel, Katsumasa Tanaka, Prabir Patra, Aki Tsuruta, Bo Zheng, Dmitry Belikov, Yosuke Niwa, Rajesh Janardanan, Shamil Maksyutov, Arjo Segers, Zitely A Tzompa-Sosa, Philppe Bousquet, Jean Sciare. Assessment of methane emissions from oil, gas and coal sectors across inventories and atmospheric inversions. Communications Earth & Environment. 2024.
  

🌳 2023

• Hui Yang, Philippe Ciais, Frédéric Frappart, Xiaojun Li, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, Lei Fan, Sassan Saatchi, Simon Besnard, Zhu Deng, Simon Bowring, Jean-Pierre Wigneron. Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade. Nature Geoscience. 2023.
  
• Xiaojuan Lin, Ronald Van Der A, Jos De Laat, Henk Eskes, Frédéric Chevallier, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng, Yuanhao Geng, Xuanren Song, Xiliang Ni, Da Huo, Xinyu Dou, Zhu Liu. Monitoring and quantifying CO2 emissions of isolated power plants from space. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2023.
  
• Piyu Ke, Zhu Deng, Biqing Zhu, Bo Zheng, Yilong Wang, Olivier Boucher, Simon Ben Arous, Chuanlong Zhou, Robbie M Andrew, Xinyu Dou, Taochun Sun, Xuanren Song, Zhao Li, Feifan Yan, Duo Cui, Yifan Hu, Da Huo, Jean-Pierre Chang, Richard Engelen, Steven J Davis, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Liu. Carbon Monitor Europe near-real-time daily CO2 emissions for 27 EU countries and the United Kingdom. Scientific Data. 2023.
  
• Biqing Zhu†, Zhu Deng†, Xuanren Song†, Wenli Zhao, Da Huo, Taochun Sun, Piyu Ke, Duo Cui, Chenxi Lu, Haiwang Zhong, Chaopeng Hong, Jian Qiu, Steven J Davis, Pierre Gentine, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Liu. CarbonMonitor-Power near-real-time monitoring of global power generation on hourly to daily scales. Scientific Data. 2023.
  
• Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Steve Davis, Philippe Ciais. Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2022. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2023.
  
• Brendan Byrne, David F Baker, Sourish Basu, Michael Bertolacci, Kevin W Bowman, Dustin Carroll, Abhishek Chatterjee, Frédéric Chevallier, Philippe Ciais, Noel Cressie, David Crisp, Sean Crowell, Feng Deng, Zhu Deng, Nicholas M Deutscher, Manvendra Dubey, Sha Feng, Omaira García, David WT Griffith, Benedikt Herkommer, Lei Hu, Andrew R Jacobson, Rajesh Janardanan, Sujong Jeong, Matthew S Johnson, Dylan BA Jones, Rigel Kivi, Junjie Liu, Zhiqiang Liu, Shamil Maksyutov, John B Miller, Scot M Miller, Isamu Morino, Justus Notholt, Tomohiro Oda, Christopher W O’Dell, Young-Suk Oh, Hirofumi Ohyama, Prabir K Patra, Hélène Peiro, Christof Petri, Sajeev Philip, David F Pollard, Benjamin Poulter, Marine Remaud, Andrew Schuh, Mahesh K Sha, Kei Shiomi, Kimberly Strong, Colm Sweeney, Yao Té, Hanqin Tian, Voltaire A Velazco, Mihalis Vrekoussis, Thorsten Warneke, John R Worden, Debra Wunch, Yuanzhi Yao, Jeongmin Yun, Andrew Zammit-Mangion, Ning Zeng. National CO2 budgets (2015–2020) inferred from atmospheric CO2 observations in support of the Global Stocktake. Earth System Science Data. 2023.
  
• Xinyu Dou, Jinpyo Hong, Philippe Ciais, Frédéric Chevallier, Feifan Yan, Ying Yu, Yifan Hu, Da Huo, Yun Sun, Yilong Wang, Steven J Davis, Monica Crippa, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Diego Guizzardi, Efisio Solazzo, Xiaojuan Lin, Xuanren Song, Biqing Zhu, Duo Cui, Piyu Ke, Hengqi Wang, Wenwen Zhou, Xia Huang, Zhu Deng, Zhu Liu. Near-real-time global gridded daily CO2 emissions 2021. Scientific Data. 2023.
  

🌳 2022

• Da Huo, Kai Liu, Jianwu Liu, Yingjian Huang, Taochun Sun, Yun Sun, Caomingzhe Si, Jinjie Liu, Xiaoting Huang, Jian Qiu, Haijin Wang, Duo Cui, Biqing Zhu, Zhu Deng, Piyu Ke, Yuli Shan, Olivier Boucher, Grégoire Dannet, Gaoqi Liang, Junhua Zhao, Lei Chen, Qian Zhang, Philippe Ciais, Wenwen Zhou, Zhu Liu. Near-real-time daily estimates of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from major high-emission cities in China. Scientific Data. 2022.
  
• Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Xiaoting Huang. A carbon-monitoring strategy through near-real–time data and space technology. The Innovation. 2022.
  
• Ana Bastos, Philippe Ciais, Stephen Sitch, Luiz EOC Aragão, Frédéric Chevallier, Dominic Fawcett, Thais M Rosan, Marielle Saunois, Dirk Günther, Lucia Perugini, Colas Robert, Zhu Deng, Julia Pongratz, Raphael Ganzenmüller, Richard Fuchs, Karina Winkler, Sönke Zaehle, Clément Albergel. On the use of Earth Observation to support estimates of national greenhouse gas emissions and sinks for the Global stocktake process: lessons learned from ESA-CCI RECCAP2. Carbon Balance and Management. 2022.
  
• Da Huo, Xiaoting Huang, Xinyu Dou, Philippe Ciais, Yun Li, Zhu Deng, Yilong Wang, Duo Cui, Fouzi Benkhelifa, Taochun Sun, Biqing Zhu, Geoffrey Roest, Kevin R Gurney, Piyu Ke, Rui Guo, Chenxi Lu, Xiaojuan Lin, Arminel Lovell, Kyra Appleby, Philip L DeCola, Steven J Davis, Zhu Liu. Carbon Monitor Cities near-real-time daily estimates of CO2 emissions from 1500 cities worldwide. Scientific Data. 2022.
  
• Zhu Liu†, Zhu Deng†, Biqing Zhu, Philippe Ciais, Steven J Davis, Jianguang Tan, Robbie M Andrew, Olivier Boucher, Simon Ben Arous, Josep G Canadell, Xinyu Dou, Pierre Friedlingstein, Pierre Gentine, Rui Guo, Chaopeng Hong, Robert B Jackson, Daniel M Kammen, Piyu Ke, Corinne Le Quéré, Crippa Monica, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Glen P Peters, Katsumasa Tanaka, Yilong Wang, Bo Zheng, Haiwang Zhong, Taochun Sun, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Global patterns of daily CO2 emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-19. Nature Geoscience. 2022.
  
• Zhu Deng†, Philippe Ciais†, Zitely A Tzompa-Sosa, Marielle Saunois, Chunjing Qiu, Chang Tan, Taochun Sun, Piyu Ke, Yanan Cui, Katsumasa Tanaka, Xin Lin, Rona L Thompson, Hanqin Tian, Yuanzhi Yao, Yuanyuan Huang, Ronny Lauerwald, Atul K Jain, Xiaoming Xu, Ana Bastos, Stephen Sitch, Paul I Palmer, Thomas Lauvaux, Alexandre d’Aspremont, Clément Giron, Antoine Benoit, Benjamin Poulter, Jinfeng Chang, Ana Maria Roxana Petrescu, Steven J Davis, Zhu Liu, Giacomo Grassi, Clément Albergel, Francesco N Tubiello, Lucia Perugini, Wouter Peters, Frédéric Chevallier. Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions. Earth System Science Data. 2022.
  
• Steven J Davis, Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Biqing Zhu, Piyu Ke, Taochun Sun, Rui Guo, Chaopeng Hong, Bo Zheng, Yilong Wang, Olivier Boucher, Pierre Gentine, Philippe Ciais. Emissions rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Climate Change. 2022.
  
• Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Steven J. Davis, Clement Giron, Philippe Ciais. Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2021. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2022.
  
• Zhu Liu, Taochun Sun, Ying Yu, Piyu Ke, Zhu Deng, Chenxi Lu, Da Huo, Xiang Ding. Near-Real-Time Carbon Emission Accounting Technology Toward Carbon Neutrality. Engineering. 2022.
  
• RB Jackson, P Friedlingstein, C Le Quéré, S Abernethy, RM Andrew, JG Canadell, Philippe Ciais, SJ Davis, Zhu Deng, Zhu Liu, Jan Ivar Korsbakken, Glen Philip Peters. Global fossil carbon emissions rebound near pre-COVID-19 levels. Environmental Research Letters. 2022.
  

🌳 2021

• Philippe Ciais, François‐Marie Bréon, Stijn Dellaert, Yilong Wang, Katsumasa Tanaka, Léna Gurriaran, Yann Françoise, Steven J Davis, Chaopeng Hong, Josep Penuelas, Ivan Janssens, Michael Obersteiner, Zhu Deng, Zhu Liu. Impact of Lockdowns and Winter Temperatures on Natural Gas Consumption in Europe. Earth’s Future. 2021.
  
• Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Gang He, Hailin Wang, Xian Zhang, Jiang Lin, Ye Qi, Xi Liang. Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2021.
  
• Xinyu Dou, Yilong Wang, Philippe Ciais, Frédéric Chevallier, Steven J Davis, Monica Crippa, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Diego Guizzardi, Efisio Solazzo, Feifan Yan, Da Huo, Bo Zheng, Biqing Zhu, Duo Cui, Piyu Ke, Taochun Sun, Hengqi Wang, Qiang Zhang, Pierre Gentine, Zhu Deng, Zhu Liu. Near-real-time global gridded daily CO2 emissions. The Innovation. 2021.
  
• Hao Yin, Michael Brauer, Junfeng Jim Zhang, Wenjia Cai, Ståle Navrud, Richard Burnett, Courtney Howard, Zhu Deng, Daniel M Kammen, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Kai Chen, Haidong Kan, Zhan-Ming Chen, Bin Chen, Ning Zhang, Zhifu Mi, D’Maris Coffman, Aaron J Cohen, Dabo Guan, Qiang Zhang, Peng Gong, Zhu Liu. Population ageing and deaths attributable to ambient PM2.5 pollution: a global analysis of economic cost. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2021.
  
• Zhu Liu, Duo Cui, Zhu Deng, Yilong Wang, Haiwang Zhong, Xu Yue, Ning Zhang, Bin Chen, Xiaobo Ren, Wei Wei, Yonglong Lü, Kejun Jiang, Xinyu Dou, Biqing Zhu, Rui Guo, Taochun Sun, Piyu Ke, Dabo Guan, Peng Gong. Impact on China’s CO2 emissions from COVID-19 pandemic. Chinese Science Bulletin. 2021.
  
• Xinyu Dou, Cuijuan Liao, Hengqi Wang, Ying Huang, Ying Tu, Xiaomeng Huang, Yiran Peng, Biqing Zhu, Jianguang Tan, Zhu Deng, Nana Wu, Taochun Sun, Piyu Ke, Zhu Liu. Estimates of daily ground-level NO2 concentrations in China based on Random Forest model integrated K-means. Advances in Applied Energy. 2021.
  

🌳 2020

• Zhu Liu†, Philippe Ciais†, Zhu Deng†, Steven J Davis, Bo Zheng, Yilong Wang, Duo Cui, Biqing Zhu, Xinyu Dou, Piyu Ke, Taochun Sun, Rui Guo, Haiwang Zhong, Olivier Boucher, François-Marie Bréon, Chenxi Lu, Runtao Guo, Jinjun Xue, Eulalie Boucher, Katsumasa Tanaka, Frédéric Chevallier. Carbon Monitor, a near-real-time daily dataset of global CO2 emission from fossil fuel and cement production. Scientific Data. 2020.
  
• Frédéric Chevallier, Bo Zheng, Grégoire Broquet, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Liu, Steven J Davis, Zhu Deng, Yilong Wang, François‐Marie Bréon, Christopher W O’Dell. Local anomalies in the column‐averaged dry air mole fractions of carbon dioxide across the globe during the first months of the coronavirus recession. Geophysical Research Letters. 2020.
  
• Zhu Liu†, Philippe Ciais†, Zhu Deng†, Ruixue Lei, Steven J Davis, Sha Feng, Bo Zheng, Duo Cui, Xinyu Dou, Biqing Zhu, Rui Guo, Piyu Ke, Taochun Sun, Chenxi Lu, Pan He, Yuan Wang, Xu Yue, Yilong Wang, Yadong Lei, Hao Zhou, Zhaonan Cai, Yuhui Wu, Runtao Guo, Tingxuan Han, Jinjun Xue, Olivier Boucher, Eulalie Boucher, Frédéric Chevallier, Katsumasa Tanaka, Yiming Wei, Haiwang Zhong, Chongqing Kang, Ning Zhang, Bin Chen, Fengming Xi, Miaomiao Liu, François-Marie Bréon, Yonglong Lu, Qiang Zhang, Dabo Guan, Peng Gong, Daniel M Kammen, Kebin He, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Communications. 2020.
  
• Xinyu Dou, Zhu Deng, Taochun Sun, Piyu Ke, Biqing Zhu, Yuli Shan, Zhu Liu. Global and local carbon footprints of city of Hong Kong and Macao from 2000 to 2015. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 2020.
  
• Zhu Liu, Jing Meng, Zhu Deng, Ping Lu, Dabo Guan, Qiang Zhang, Kebin He, Peng Gong. Embodied carbon emissions in China-US trade. Science China Earth Sciences. 2020.
  

🌳 2019

• Duo Cui, Zhu Deng, Zhu Liu. China’s non-fossil fuel CO2 emissions from industrial processes. Applied Energy. 2019.
  
• Chaoji Cao, XueQin Cui, Wenjia Cai, Can Wang, Lu Xing, Ning Zhang, Shudong Shen, Yuqi Bai, Zhu Deng. Incorporating health co-benefits into regional carbon emission reduction policy making: A case study of China’s power sector. Applied Energy. 2019.
  
• Baolei Lyu, Yongtao Hu, Wenxian Zhang, Yunsong Du, Bin Luo, Xiaoling Sun, Zhe Sun, Zhu Deng, Xiaojiang Wang, Jun Liu, Xuesong Wang, Armistead G. Russell. Fusion method combining ground-level observations with chemical transport model predictions using an ensemble deep learning framework: application in China to estimate spatiotemporally-resolved PM2.5 exposure fields in 2014–2017. Environmental Science & Technology. 2019.
  

🌳 2016

• Zhu Deng, Yuqi Bai. Floating car data processing model based on Hadoop-GIS tools. 2016 Fifth International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics (Agro-Geoinformatics). 2016.