Professor and Graduate Program Director in Geography and Environmental Resources Program
School of Earth Systems and Sustainability
Faculty Fellow, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale SIU is officially an R1 research university in 2025
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence journal
My research centers on the Geoinformatics for Food-Energy-Water (GeoFEW). The specific research topics include Water Resources Planning and Management, GIS Analysis and Modeling, Energy Geography, and Agricultural Land Use. In recent years, I focus on interdisciplinary and emerging technologies, such as Geospatial AI, Physics-informed Deep Learning, Generative AI, social media data mining, and UAVs (drone). I have a firm commitment to high-risk and high-reward interdisciplinary research agenda stemming from theories of Socio-Technical Systems and Socio-Environmental Systems. I have received ~ 4 million grants from different agencies, including five grants from the NSF.
I currently serve as a Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, contributing to our R1 strategic efforts that strengthen university-wide grant development and research collaborations.
Techniques: Artificial Intelligence, Geospatial Analysis, Remote Sensing, Hydrologic Modeling, Social-Environmental Systems, Land Use Modeling, Social Media Analytics, UAVs (drones)
Professor & Graduate Program Director
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Visiting Scholar
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Assistant Professor
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Integrated Water Management Analyst/Specialist
Nebraska Department of Natural Resources (NeDNR)
Ph.D. in Natural Resource Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
My collaborative paper recently wins a WRR Editors' Choice award!
