Dr. Zhibo Zhang received a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences (2008) and a MS (2004) from the Texas A&M University and a BS in Meteorology (1998) from the Nanjing University, China. His Ph.D. thesis is on the satellite-based remote sensing of ice clouds. In Jan. 2009 he joined the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he works with the MODIS cloud science team led by Dr. Steven Platnick on the development of infrared cloud property retrieval algorithm.