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2026

July. Published Physiological Fidelity of a Satellite-Derived Forest Resilience Indicator in the Amazon in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Read the paper.

June. Published The Urban Pulse: Diagnosing the Urbanization Process as Spiky, Cyclical, and Asynchronous in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Read the paper

May. Our paper Physiological Fidelity of a Satellite-Derived Forest Resilience Indicator in the Amazon was accepted for publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

May. Presented research on GeoAI, remote sensing, and causal inference at the AI for Social Science Research Methods Workshop at Yale University. My poster was selected as one of three outstanding posters.

April. Published a paper on satellite-derived human nighttime activity dynamics in Nature. Read the paper

February. Joined the Yale School of the Environment as a Postdoctoral Associate in the SPIRES Lab.

February. Delivered an invited seminar at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville titled The Pulse of the Planet: Decoding Forest Disturbance and Resilience from Space.

2025

December. Successfully defended my Ph.D. in Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Connecticut.

October. Published TIF: A Time-series-based Image Fusion Algorithm in Remote Sensing of Environment. Read the paper

September. Published A Shift from Human-directed to Undirected Wildland Disturbances in the USA in Nature Geoscience. Read the paper

2024

December. Presented Can We Reliably Measure Forest Resilience from Space? at the AGU Fall Meeting.

July. Published Stormwise: Innovative Forest Management to Promote Storm Resistance in Roadside Forests in Journal of Forestry. Read the paper

April. Presented research on forest resilience dynamics following insect disturbances at the AAG Annual Meeting.

January. Published Evaluation of Summertime Passive Microwave and Reanalysis Sea-Ice Concentration Products in the Central Arctic in Earth and Space Science. Read the paper