About

Education

  • Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D., 2006
  • Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, M.A., 2004
  • Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California at Berkeley, M.S., 2003
  • School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, China, B.E., 2001

Main Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Department of Geography, Department of Statistics (courtesy appointment), Department of Civil, Environmental, Geodetic Engineering (courtesy appointment), The Ohio State University (OSU), 2018-present
  • Faculty, Principal Investigator, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, OSU, 2018-present
  • Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Department of Statistics (courtesy appointment), OSU, 2013-2018
  • Associate Professor, Department of Geography (75% FTE) and Department of Statistics (25% FTE), OSU, 2012-2013
  • Faculty, Environmental Science Graduate Program, OSU, 2012-present
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Geography (75% FTE) and Department of Statistics (25% FTE), OSU, 2006-2012

Research Interests

  • Remote Sensing Methods and Applications
  • Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics
  • Geographic Information Systems and Science
  • Land Use and Land Cover Change

Editorial Service

  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Remote Sensing (2020-)
  • Associate Editor, Annals of GIS (2019-)
  • Associate Editor, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (2016-)
  • Editorial Board Member, Remote Sensing (2023-)
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science (2020-)
  • Editorial Board Member, Geo-spatial Information Science (2019-)
  • Editorial Advisory Board Member, International Journal of Remote Sensing (2019-)
  • Editorial Board Member, GIScience & Remote Sensing (2014-)