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:
- AGU Natural Hazards Early Career Awards
- NASA New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science
- Top 10 most downloaded papers* 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.

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:
- Landslide hazards in active tectonics
- 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:
- Monitoring long-term and short-term natural hazards and shallow processes though InSAR and GNSS
- Coastal hazards


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 (huyi2021@bjfu.edu.cn; will officially join in fall 2025)

Education
2025- Ph.D. GIS Peking University
2021-2025 B.S. Computer Science and Technology Beijing Forestry University

Research interests:
- AI remote sensing


Master students

Penghui Wu (penghui_wu@stu.pku.edu.cn)

Education
2022- Ph.D. Physical Geography Peking University, Beijing
2017-2021 B.S. Land Resource Managment China University of Geosciences, Beijing

Research interests:
- SAR remote sensing in natural hazards and shallow solid earth
- Landslide deformation and dynamics


Yiling Lin (yllin@stu.pku.edu.cn)

Education
2023- M.S. Physical Geography Peking University
2019-2023 B.S. GIS Beijing Normal University

Research interests:
- Machine learning in remote sensing data
- Retrogressive thaw slumps detection


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


Yuanzhuo Zhou (20211002044@cug.edu.cn; will officially join in fall 2025)

Education
2025- M.S. GIS Peking University
2021-2025 B.S. GIS China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

Research interests:
- GIS
- InSAR


Undergraduate student

Mei Chen (meichernpku@outlook.com; https://github.com/MeiChern)

Education
2021- 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


VIP

Milk Cap

Education
Ph.D Physical Geography Home-Schooled

Research interests:
- Sleeping
- Playing
- Tins of chicken


Alumni

Sayyed Mohammad Javad Mirzadeh

2023-2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, now in Canada.

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.