Pan had received a Monbukagakusho Scholarship from the Japanese Government to study in the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing (CHRS), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine. Pan’s research is in the area of hydrologic downscaling, land surface hydrologic process modeling and hydrologic data assimilation. She has published more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals.