Lei Lei obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Telecommunication in China. She completed her Master’s degree at Brigham Young University in 2006. She had received the BYU departmental 2/3 tuition scholarship for two years and was awarded the Excellent Leadership & Service from Chinese Student & Scholar Association. She worked in IDeA Labs from Aug. 2004 to May. 2006. Her primary research interest is in Hidden Markov model realizations and approximations, Geographic Information System (GIS), and applying Hidden Markov models to solve practical ecological problems such as simulating post-fire successional dynamics, predicting vegetation composition from different Silvicultural pathways. During summer of 2006 she was an intern with the Natural Resource Consulting Group in the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI). Contact: lei.lei@yale.edu

After graduation, she went on to pursue her PhD at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.