Education:
Ph.D.  2020 Purdue University, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Science
B.S.  2013 Peking University, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Professional Experience:
2024-Present Reseacher 6,   Dept. of Earth & Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota
2022 –2024 Researcher 5, Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota
2020 – 2022 Postdoc Scholar, Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota

Jessica has an extensive broad background in Earth Science and an interest in combining remote sensing imagery, data analysis, and ML for agricultural applications. Her planned research involves studying nutrient management strategies that promote water quality and sustainable agriculture practices. She received a B.A. from Vassar College in 2005 and a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2011.

Nutrient budgets
Soil processes
Project management

Junxiong has experience in remote sensing image processing, including image fusion and classification. He is currently working on analyzing the impacts of climate changes on crop yields. He received the B.E. degree from China University of Geosciences in 2018, and the M.S. degree from Beijing Normal University in 2021. Google Scholar.

Knowledge-guied machine learning
Remote sensing products
Crop yield

Education:
Ph.D.  2016 Purdue University, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Science
Supervisor: Qianlai Zhuang
B.S.  2011 Peking University, Dept. of Ecology

Professional Experience:
07/2018 – 01/2019   Lead Crop Scientist    Atlas AI P.B.C., Palo Alto, CA
07/2016 – 06/2018   Postdoc Scholar Dept. of Earth System Science, Stanford University  Supervisor: David Lobell
06/2015 – 08/2015   Science Team Intern Farmlogs, Ann Arbor, MI

Leikun is interested in sustainable agriculture management utilizing remote sensing and ML/DL. Topics that interest him include not limited to staple/cash crop mapping, the role of cash crops in poverty alleviation, yield prediction, and crop phenology. He received his B.E. degree from Shandong Agricultural University in 2020 with research related to agricultural remote sensing. Leikun’s Github

Staple/cash crop mapping
Land-cover and land-use change
Machine learning/deep learning

Lab Alumni

  • Jie Yang (Postdoc Researcher, 2023-2024)
  • Nanshan You (Postdoc Researcher, 2022-2024)
  • Yufeng Yang (PhD student, 2019-2024)
  • Qi Yang (Postdoc Researcher, 2022-2024, now Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)
  • Chenxi Lin (PhD student, 2019-2023)
  • Miao Tong (Visiting PhD student from Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2022)
  • Aidanne Forcier (Undergraduate student, 2022)
  • Taegon Kim (Research Associate, 2019-2021, now Assistant Professor at Jeonbuk National University, South Korea)
  • Zhiyong Lv (Visiting Professor from Xi’An University of Technology)
  • Ke Liu (Visiting Student from Peking University; now PhD student at California Institute of Technology)