Mo Li
Carbon Expert at Watershed
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMo Li is a carbon and sustainability scientist with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building life cycle assessment methods and supply-chain carbon accounting systems for government, academia, and industry. As a Senior Scientist and developer of the EPA's USEEIO models and the open-source useeior/stateior R packages, he translates complex economic and environmental data into reproducible models and actionable tools used by EPA programs, national labs, and corporations. Currently at Watershed, he helps architect emissions ingestion and modeling systems that operationalize modern climate methodologies at scale. Trained to PhD level in natural resources and with a background in hybrid LCA and energy-grid marginal emissions work, he blends rigorous research with production-grade software engineering and CI/CD practice. A less obvious strength is his track record of replacing spreadsheet workflows with version-controlled, programmatic modeling pipelines that dramatically improve reproducibility and speed.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Natural Resource Science and Management, Master of Science - MS, Natural Resource Science and Management at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Environmental Science at Renmin University of ChinaUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (26)
environmental10
ord10
python10
carbon-emissions10
economy10
climate-science10
meta-analysis10
region10
risk-assessment10
loss10
modelica10
standardized9
modeling8
industrial7
linked-list7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
USEPA/supply-chain-factors
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:7 reviews, 32 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
USEPA/stateior
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Prepares US state two-region Make and Use tables
Contributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 633 commits in 2 years 3 months
ordregion
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