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2025

Oct 2025
[Talk] I was invited to present a guest lecture on wildfires and climate change at Georgia Tech for CP4190: Introduction to Climate Change Planning
June 2025
[Paper] Our paper on "Community-scale microclimate simulation and object-based urban tree classification" was published in Landscape and Urban Planning.
June 2025
[Paper] Our paper on "Fire Spread Simulations Using Cell2Fire on Synthetic and Real Landscapes" was accepted to Scientific Reports.
May 2025
[Research] Our proposal on "Multi-scale mitigation of wildfire risk vulnerabilities in the natural and built environment" was awarded the 2025 Lau Grant for Just Climate Futures.

2024

September 2024
[Research] We released the final report for our project with CalTrans on estimating bulking factors to protect critical infrastructure to post-fire debris flow risks.
August 2024
[Talk] I was invited to present on WUI risk modeling and fire suppression strategies at the Pau Costa Foundation.
July 2024
[Talk] I was invited to present on WUI risk modeling and fire suppression strategies at the Catalan Fire Service (Spain).
July 2024
[Talk] I was invited to present on fire spread modeling and fire suppression strategies at Wageningen University
July 2024
[Research] I am visiting the Catalan Fire Service (headquarters in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) to research and gain field experience with the generous support of the GRAF (Group of Support to Forest Actions) team and Pau Costa Foundation.
May 2024
[Award] I received the Beatrix C. Farrand Memorial Fellowship for Research.
April 2024
[Award] I received the 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from UC Berkeley.
Feb 2024
[Talk] I was invited to present a guest lecture on data-driven planning and fire spread modeling at Georgia Tech for CP4190: Introduction to Climate Change Planning
Jan 2024
[PhD] I will be the Graduate Student Instructor for LDARCH/ESPM C289: Applied Remote Sensing, taught by Prof. Iryna Dronova. Looking forward to sharing remote sensing with all the students!

2023

July 2023
[Conference] I attended IGARSS 2023 in Pasadena, CA and presented an oral presentation on semantic segmentation of lifeforms. Honored to serve as Session Chair for the Session on Image Analysis for Land Cover Mapping.
May 2023
[PhD] I successfully passed my qualifying exam. Thank you to my committee members: John Radke, Marta C. Gonzalez, Iryna Dronova, and Solomon Hsiang.
May 2023
[Award] I received the Beatrix C. Farrand Memorial Fellowship for Conference Travel.
Feb 2023
[Award] I received the Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship from ASPRS.