PI

Xie Hu

Research assistant

Xiao Yu (EAS Department, UH)

Xiao relies on SAR coherence and amplitude acquired before and after the winter storm | major disaster that struck Texas in February 2021 to estimate the statewide snow depth in the framework of machine learning.

Xiao is also working on the ground deformation in the coastal Miami region where the condominium building collapsed in Surfside and took away 98 lives. RIP🕯🕯

Yuqi Song (undergrad at Wuhan University; to join as a PhD student at PKU in Fall 2022)

Yuqi is updating and refining the landslide inventory in the Western U.S. using multi-source remote sensing big data.

Alumni

Hanwen Yu (postdoc at UH; now at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu)

Hanwen developed a phase unwrapping approach to map rapid displacements such as at the Slumgullion landslide.

Brandon Voelker (graduate student in M.Eng. at UH, expected 2022)

Brandon is researching seasonal deformation of landslides in Washington and incorporating SAR data into machine learning models of landslide occurrence.

Jieying Ding (graduate student in M.Eng. at UH, expected 2022)

Jieying is characterizing the ground deformation and the associated driving forces over the Greater Houston Area using SAR, GPS, DEM, and water level data.

Qingyu Sui (research assistant at Peking University; moving to SMU for his PhD)

Qingyu is investigating possible tidal effects in regulating the slow-moving landslide speed on a daily scale.