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 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
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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; 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 (huyi2021@bjfu.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 (20211002044@cug.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
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.