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Causality-guided explainable machine learning reveals the role of groundwater in spatial patterns of photosynthesis.

Our study of groundwater and photosynthesis in the contiguous United States was published online in Communications Earth & Environment on 26 September 2026. Jiangong Liu is a co-corresponding author.

Using causality-guided explainable machine learning, we investigated how groundwater regulates spatial patterns of photosynthesis. Water-table depth plays a critical role in the functioning of forests and arid ecosystems.

A group dinner to welcome Piyush YADAV and thank Lunjie CUI for his time with EI Lab.

On 19 September 2026, EI Lab held a group dinner to welcome Piyush YADAV and thank Lunjie CUI for his time with the group over the past few months.

Thank you both for being part of EI Lab. We wish Lunjie all the best for his next step.

EI Lab members gathered at Manji Private Kitchen in Guangzhou for a group dinner and our first news update.

On 5 June 2026, EI Lab members gathered at Manji Private Kitchen (满记私厨) in Guangzhou. This was our first photo record of a dinner with many of the group’s members, and the first entry in our news archive.

Welcome to everyone in EI Lab.