Upcoming
- I am co-organizing Causal Inference in the Geospatial Context: Applications, Progress, and Challenges with Chengbin Deng. We welcome contributions on methods, applications, and challenges in using geospatial data to address causal questions across geography and related fields. View session details.
- I will present research on conflict- and displacement-driven land-system change at the AGU Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. The study integrates satellite time series, nighttime lights, geospatial AI, and causal inference to examine landscape change in northern Rakhine State and Cox’s Bazar.
2026
- Organized and moderated the panel Who Writes the Map? AI, Authorship, and Publishing at the Harvard CGA 20th Anniversary Annual Conference. The panel explored how generative AI is reshaping authorship, peer review, and scholarly publishing in geography and geospatial science.
- Attended the Google Geo for Good Earth Engine MAP Partner Summit in Mountain View, California, connecting with the Earth Engine and geospatial AI communities around applications for planetary sustainability and human resilience.
- My paper, Physiological Fidelity of a Satellite-Derived Forest Resilience Indicator in the Amazon, was selected as the cover article for the September 2026 issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution. View the issue cover · Read the paper.
- Published Physiological Fidelity of a Satellite-Derived Forest Resilience Indicator in the Amazon in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Read the paper.
- 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.
- Our paper Physiological Fidelity of a Satellite-Derived Forest Resilience Indicator in the Amazon was accepted for publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
- 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.
Poster presentation at the Yale AI for Social Science Research Methods Workshop. - Published a paper on satellite-derived human nighttime activity dynamics in Nature. Read the paper.
- Joined the Yale School of the Environment as a Postdoctoral Associate in the SPIRES Lab.
- Delivered an invited seminar at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, titled The Pulse of the Planet: Decoding Forest Disturbance and Resilience from Space.
2025
- Successfully defended my Ph.D. in Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Connecticut.
Ph.D. dissertation defense at the University of Connecticut. - Published TIF: A Time-Series-Based Image Fusion Algorithm in Remote Sensing of Environment. Read the paper.
- Published A Shift from Human-Directed to Undirected Wildland Disturbances in the USA in Nature Geoscience. Read the paper.
2024
- Presented Can We Reliably Measure Forest Resilience from Space? at the AGU Fall Meeting.
- Published Stormwise: Innovative Forest Management to Promote Storm Resistance in Roadside Forests in the Journal of Forestry. Read the paper.
- Presented research on forest resilience dynamics following insect disturbances at the AAG Annual Meeting.
- Published Evaluation of Summertime Passive Microwave and Reanalysis Sea-Ice Concentration Products in the Central Arctic in Earth and Space Science. Read the paper.