PhD Remote Sensing and Ecosystem, 2006, University of California at Berkeley
MA Applied Statistics, 2005, University of California at Berkeley
MS Mapping and Geography Information Systems, 2000, Chinese Academy of Sciences
BE Precision Instruments and Measurement and Control Techniques, 1997, Tsinghua University
Teaching
GEO 360 Interpretation of Aerial Photography
GEO 551/651 Remote Sensing
GEO 572/672 Photogrammetry
GEO 578/678 Remote Sensing Digital Image Processing
Research and professional interests
Remote sensing
Deep learning
Photogrammetry
LiDAR
Cryosphere
Vegetation monitoring
Awards and honors
NSF Collaborative Research ($127,966), "Developing On-Demand Service Module for Mining Geophysical Properties of Sea Ice from High Spatial Resolution Imagery" , January 2019-December 2021
NSF EPSCoR Seed Project ($69,986), "Monitoring and modeling vegetative response to climate fluctuation and seasonal change through UAS-based hyperspectral sensor and camera system", 2015-2017
Summer Faculty Fellowship ($6,000), "Data Mining of High Spatial Resolution Images for Arctic Sea Ice Physical Properties", 2015
University of Texas in San Antonio Sabbatical, "Applying tree-based ensemble classification algorithms for ecosystems", 2012.
BancorpSouth Academic Spotlight, Missouri State University, 2010.
Faculty Research Grant ($6,900), Missouri State University, 2009
Ecosystem Indicator Research Grant ($111,597), Clark County, NV, 2009
Summer Faculty Fellowships ($6,000), 2009
Faculty Research Grant ($6,290), Missouri State University, 2008