PI Xie Hu (hu.xie@pku.edu.cn)
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Education | ||
2014-2018 | Ph.D. | Geophysics | Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA |
2011-2013 | M.S. | Remote Sensing | Wuhan University, China |
2007-2011 | B.S. | GIS | China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China |
Employment | ||
2021- | Assistant Professor (tenure-track) |
Peking University, Beijing, China |
2020-2021 | Assistant Professor (tenure-track) |
University of Houston, TX, USA |
2018-2020 | Postdoctoral Researcher | University of California Berkeley, CA, USA |
Honors & awards:
- 2015 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
- 2021 NASA New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science
- 2022 AGU Natural Hazards Early Career
- 2022 NSF-China Early Career
- 2022 Top 10 Most Downloaded Paper* in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
* In work published between 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2021, Hu et al. (2021) is among the top 10 most downloaded papers in the 12 months following online publication.
- 2023 Beijing Emergency Response and Hazard Reduction Leadership Program (Early Career Group)
- 2024 Beijing Association of Science and Technology Youth Leadership Program
- 2025 Annual Cover Paper* in npj Natural Hazards
* One only for year 2024
- 2025 Visiting Sabbatical Fellowship by Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder
Research interests:
- SAR remote sensing in natural hazards and shallow solid earth
- Landslide deformation and dynamics
- Artificial intelligence in remote sensing big data analysis
[PKU personal profile] [Google Site] [Google Scholar] [CV]
PhD students
Yuqi Song (yqsong@stu.pku.edu.cn)
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Education | ||
2022- | Ph.D. | Physical Geography | Peking University |
2018-2022 | B.S. | Science and Technology of Remote Sensing | Wuhan University |
Research interests:
- Permafrost
- Landslides
- Machine learning in remote sensing big data analysis
Yongxuan Ran (yongxuan@stu.pku.edu.cn)
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Education | ||
2023- | Ph.D. | Physical Geography | Peking University |
2019-2023 | B.S. | Instrument of Remote Sensing | Wuhan University |
Research interests:
- Coastal floods and inundation amid climate change
- InSAR and GNSS data processing
Yiling Lin (yllin@stu.pku.edu.cn; transfer from a Master to a Ph.D. program, and will officially start her Ph.D. program in 2026)
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Education | ||
2023- | Ph.D. | GIS | Peking University |
2019-2023 | B.S. | GIS | Beijing Normal University |
Research interests:
- Crater and slump detection in extraterrestrial planets and the Earth
- Floods
- Deep learning in remote sensing data
Feng Lin (linfeng@stu.pku.edu.cn)
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Education | ||
2024- | Ph.D. | Physical Geography | Peking University |
2020-2024 | B.S. | Computer Science and Technology | Beijing Forestry University |
Research interests:
- AI remote sensing
Yi Hu (huyi2021@bjfu.edu.cn)
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Education | ||
2025- | Ph.D. | GIS | Peking University |
2021-2025 | B.S. | Computer Science and Technology | Beijing Forestry University |
Research interests:
- AI in spatial and temporal analysis
Master students
Jinghui Xiao (xiaojinghui@stu.pku.edu.cn)
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Education | ||
2024- | M.S. | Physical Geography | Peking University |
2020-2024 | B.S. | Science and Technology of Remote Sensing | Wuhan University |
Research interests:
- InSAR application in urban environment
Yuanzhuo Zhou (20211002044@cug.edu.cn)
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Education | ||
2025- | M.S. | Physical Geography | Peking University |
2021-2025 | B.S. | GIS | China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) |
Research interests:
- Thermokarst hazard in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Mei Chen (meichernpku@outlook.com; https://github.com/MeiChern; now working as an undergrd intern)
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Education | ||
2021-2026 | Bachelor | Physical Geography | Peking University |
Research interests:
- Natural hazards monitoring
- Cryosphere monitoring
- Geo-AI & earth system modeling
- Interactions between the technology, our cognition, and our academic life
Undergraduate student
VIP
Milk Cap
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Education | ||
Ph.D | Physical Geography | Home-Schooled |
Research interests:
- Sleeping
- Playing
- Tins of chicken
Alumni
Penghui Wu
2022-2025 Master thesis work with the lab.Sayyed Mohammad Javad Mirzadeh
2023-2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, now in the US.Congrong Wang
2023 Undergrad thesis work with the lab, now PhD student at University of Alaska, Fairbanks, US.Xiao Yu
2021-2023 Research Assistant, now Research Scientist at the Illinois State Water Survey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US.Qingyu Sui
2021 Undergrad Research Assistant, now PhD student at the Southern Methodish University, US.Hanwen Yu
2020-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, now Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.