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
- December 2025: I’m excited to share that my first postdoctoral paper, High spatiotemporal resolution monitoring of crop water stress across the contiguous United States enabled by Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2, has been accepted in Agricultural Water Management.
- December 2025: I chaired the poster and oral sessions on Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Forest Disturbance and Recovery at AGU 2025!
- December 2025: I presented my work on Mapping Secondary Forest Age Annually at 30-Meter Resolution Across the Contiguous United States as a poster at AGU 2025!
- December 2025: I presented my work on Estimating Soil Organic Carbon at National Scale Using EMIT Hyperspectral Data as a poster at AGU 2025!
- November 2025: I am honored and grateful to join the editorial team of Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation journal as an Associate Editor!
- October 2025: I was invited as a guest lecturer for GIS5038c Environmental Remote Sensing course at University of Florida!
- October 2025: I served as a guest editor for Remote Sensing journal on “Land Cover Change Detection: Emerging Algorithms and Applications in Remote Sensing”.
- September 2025: I served as a guest lecturer for GRS33806 Geoscripting course at Wageningen University.
- September 2025: My session proposal on Leveraging BIOMASS, NISAR or Multi-sensors for Comprehensive Forest Monitoring was accepted in ForestSAT 2026!
- August 2025: I was invited as a guest editor for Remote Sensing journal on “Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Soil Moisture Monitoring”!
- 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”.
- October 2024: I was invited to join the Editor Board for Remote Sensing Letters journal!
- 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!