Research

Ongoing grants

2022-2027 E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Faculty Fellow. Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. $50,000.

2023-2024 Forest biodiversity modeling through the synthesis of hyperspectral, LiDAR, and tree inventories within a deep learning framework. Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), Co-PI, $50,000.

2019-2024       NSF I/UCRC Spatiotemporal Innovation Center, Co-PI, NSF, Funding: 750k

Completed grants

2022-2023 Facilitating environmental investigations employing a single column model. Penn State, Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Co-PI, $30,000.

2022 Integrating low-cost sensors and human mobility into air pollution exposure modeling. IEE-ICDS. 300 hours of RISE development team effort.

2020-2022       The Arctic in Hot Water: Quantifying Maritime Transport under Declining Sea Ice and Increasing Geopolitical Tension. Penn State Center for Security Research and Education (CSRE), Co-PI, $20,000 + one-year graduate assistantship

2020-2022       Integrating Internet of Things (IoT) and satellite observation into localized weather forecast for urban heat island and heatwave. Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE), PI, $15,000

2021            Hyperspectral Imaging of Multi-angle scenes using DEep Learning. US Air Force Research Laboratory. Co-PI. $150k.

2020-2021       Utilizing geometric deep learning to predict the rapid intensification of tropical cyclones. Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), PI, $10,000

2018-2019       Rapid Tropical Cyclone Feature Detection from High-Resolution Climate Simulation, NASA NCCS, PI, Funding: 50k

2017-2018       Big Data Deep Learning Platform for New Information, NASA/NRO, (Co-I), PI: Chaowei Yang, Funding: Phase I $100k, targeting Phase II 450k

2015-2017       Developing an Architecture for Mitigating Near Earth Object’s Impact to the Earth Planet, NASA, (Student Co-I), PI: Chaowei Yang, Funding: $200k

2014-2016       DAsHER CD: Developing a Data-Oriented Human-Centric Conceptual Architecture for EarthCube, NSF, (Student Co-I), PI: Chaowei Yang, Funding: $280k