Her research focuses on improving the ecological and hydrological monitoring capabilities to provide data-driven information for sustainable agriculture and natural resources management. She has developed various geospatial techniques to map area burned and tree mortality, quantity ecosystem productivity and dynamics, and estimate evapotranspiration. Jin is also interested in fire-climate-vegetation interactions and the applications of satellite and drone remote sensing in precision agriculture. Jin holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Boston University and a B.S. in Atmospheric Physics from Peking University. She worked as a research faculty at UC Irvine before joining the UC Davis.