PI Xie Hu (hu.xie@pku.edu.cn)

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 in 2024)
2025 Visiting Sabbatical Fellowship by Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder
2025 GIS Rising Star (among universities in China)
2025 United Nations Women’s International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) Rising Star Award Finalist

Research interests:
- SAR remote sensing in natural hazards and shallow solid earth
- Landslide deformation and dynamics
- Artificial intelligence in remote sensing big data analysis
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PhD students

Yuqi Song (yqsong@stu.pku.edu.cn)

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)

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; https://github.com/YilingLin0610/; transfer from a Master to a Ph.D. program, and will officially start her Ph.D. program in 2026)

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)

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 (yihu25@stu.pku.edu.cn)

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)

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 (yzzhou25@stu.pku.edu.cn)

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)

Education
2026- M.S. Physical Geography Peking University
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

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.