Research Interests
My research focuses on applying remote sensing to better understand when, where, how and why tropical forest changes and address critical environmental challenges. My work combines advanced geospatial techniques with data-driven approaches to provide valuable insights into land use land cover change (forest cover), forest dynamics, and natural resource management. My research interests are mainly tropical forest disturbance, regrowth monitoring, and forest carbon stock estimation based on multi-source remote sensing data.
Research Questions
- How can remote sensing be leveraged to understand ecosystem changes in tropical forests over space and time?
- How can satellite data improve our ability to assess forest recovery, structure, and carbon dynamics at regional to global scales?
- How can scalable, data-driven approaches support forest conservation, land management, and climate mitigation efforts?
News
- August 2025: I participated in the U-M Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning (KGML) Workshop at Ann Arbor!
- July 2025: I was invited to give a presentation at Huazhong University of Science and Technology Young Scholars Forum!
- June 2025: Our proposal titled Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Forest Disturbance and Recovery was accepted in AGU 2025!
- June 2025: I had the honor of serving as a NASA panelist.
- June 2025: I joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT as a Postdoctoral Associate!
- April 2025: I participated in the IALE-North America Annual Meeting in Raleigh, NC.
- February 2025: Our paper “Enhanced algorithm for water transparency estimation in turbid plateau waters using Orbita Hyperspectral (OHS) Imagery,” published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
- January 2025: I served as a guest lecturer at the University of Maryland, where I gave a talk on Synthetic Aperture Radar.
- December 2024: I presented my work “Evaluating Environmental Gradients and Regrowth Metrics on Tropical Secondary Forest Aboveground Biomass” at AGU in Washington, D.C.
- December 2024: I presented my work “Monitoring Crop Water Stress across the Conterminous United States Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data” at AGU in Washington, D.C.
- December 2024: I gave a talk at Boston University titled “Earth Observations for assessing tropical forest changes”.
- July 2024: Our paper on cropland mapping in Southwestern China published in Scientific Data.
- June 2024: Presented at the Peking University Young Scholars Forum in Beijing.
- February 2024: Started Postdoc at Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT.
- January 2024: Paper on biomass uptake rates of Brazil’s forests published in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
- November 2023: Successfully defended my PhD at Wageningen University!