Dr. Jian Ge is a professor of astronomy at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a professor of Astronomy at the University of Florida in 2004-2020, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University in 2000-2004, a postdoc research staff at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in 1998-2000. He obtained his Ph.D in astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1998 and his BSc in theoretical physics from University of Science and Technology in 1989. He is the Principal Investigator of the Earth 2.0 space mission study, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was the Principal Investigators for the Dharma Planet Survey and the MARVELS survey of the SDSS-III program, the Principal Investigator for multiple Opt/IR instruments. He led the development of multiple instrument technologies including dispersed fixed-delay interferometry, silicon immersion gratings, advanced image slicer integral field optics, and coronagraphic image and pupil masks. His team discovered numerous planets, including discovery of the Vulcan planet in Star Trek in 2018, brown dwarfs, binaries and various kinds of quasar absorbers. He was named in Forty Years of Chinese Overseas Students. He has published 146 refereed journal papers, over 100 technical papers, and was awarded with three US patents.

Exoplanet detection, characterization and techniques, brown dwarf and binary detection and statistical studies, optical and infrared astronomical instrumentation and technologies, artificial intelligence applications in astronomical big data and quasar absorption line systems and observational cosmology

1. Wang, F., Ge, J. & Willis, K., “Discovering Faint and High Apparent Motion Rate Near-Earth Asteroids Using A Deep Learning Program”, MNRAS, in press (arXiv:2208.09098v1)

2. Ge, J., Zhang, H., & Deng, H.P., et al. 2022, “The ET mission to search for earth 2.0s”, The Innovation 3(4), 100271

3. Zhao, Y.N., Ge, J. Xiaoyong Yuan, Tiffany Zhao, Cindy Wang, & Xiaolin Li, 2019 "Identifying MgII narrow absorption lines with Deep Learning," MNRAS, 487, 801

4. Grieves, N., Ge, J., Thomas, N. et al. 2018, "Chemo-Kinematics of the Milky Way from the SDSS-III MARVELS survey," MNRAS, 481, 3244

5. Ma, B., Ge, J. et al. 2018, “The First Super-Earth Detection from the High Cadence and High Radial Velocity Precision Dharma Planet Survey”, MNRAS, 480, 2411

6. Ma, J.Z., Ge, J., et al. 2017, “Quasar 2175 ？ absorbers I: metallicity, depletion pattern, and kinematics”, MNRAS, 472, 2196

7. Grieves, N., Ge, J., et al. 2017, “Exploring the Brown Dwarf Desert: New Substellar Companions from the SDSS-III MARVELS Survey,” MNRAS, 467, 4264

8. Ma, B. & Ge, J. 2014, "Statistical properties of brown dwarf companions: implications of different formation mechanisms," MNRAS, 439, 278

9. Eisenstein, D. et al. 2011, “SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems,” AJ, 142, 72

10. Ge, J., et al. 2006, “The First Extrasolar Planet Discovered with a New Generation High Throughput Doppler Instrument”, ApJ, 648, 683