Postdoctoral Associate · Yale School of the Environment
I study how ecosystems, infrastructure, and societies respond to disturbance and global change. My research combines Earth observation, field measurements, causal inference, and geospatial AI to make change more observable, explainable, and actionable, and to make satellite-derived evidence trustworthy enough to guide decisions.
I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the SPIRES Lab at Yale, working with Dr. Luke C. Sanford. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut under the guidance of Dr. Zhe Zhu in the GERS Lab.
01Forest resilience & ecosystem dynamicsDetecting how forests respond to natural disturbance, anthropogenic stress, and long-term environmental change.
02Human–environment interactionRevealing how conflict, infrastructure, and human activity reshape coupled landscapes.
03Earth observation & geospatial AIBuilding reliable, interpretable methods for monitoring and predicting change from space.
I am co-organizing “Causal Inference in the Geospatial Context: Applications, Progress, and Challenges” with Chengbin Deng. We welcome contributions on geospatial methods and causal questions.
View session details →I will present research on conflict- and displacement-driven landscape change in northern Rakhine State and Cox’s Bazar at the AGU Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Presentation details →“Who Writes the Map? AI, Authorship, and Publishing” explored generative AI’s role in authorship, peer review, and scholarly publishing.
Conference details →Our Amazon forest-resilience study was selected as the September issue cover article.
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