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Qunying Huang

Qunying Huang

Expert on wildfires, floods, Remote Sensing, AI/ML

Professor, Geography; Director, Spatial Computing and Data Mining College of Letters and Science Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies Work: 608-890-4946 — Home and cell phones available upon request qhuang46@wisc.edu Home page Twitter: @Qunying Huang

Topics

  • Rapid active wildfire detection, dynamic modeling, burnt area mapping, and burn severity assessment by fusing remote sensing imagery, computer vision, and machine learning technologies
  • Crop yield mapping and visualization using satellite and drone collected multispectral and hyperspectral imagery
  • Real-time flood mapping and damage assessment
  • Trajectory data mining for human activity space and mobility pattern analytics

Achievements

  • H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow (2024), Vilas Associate Award (2020), Next Generation of Hazards & Disasters Researchers (2014), and CyberGIS Fellow (2014)
  • Book: Spatial Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 304p. ISBN: 978-1466593169.

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