Hone-Jay Chu

Professor Hone-Jay Chu is a faculty member at the Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, where he has been employed since 2011. He earned his PhD from National Chiao Tung University in 2008, focusing on artificial intelligence and optimization for water resource management, followed by postdoctoral work (2008–2011) with Professor YP Lin on spatial environmental monitoring and land use change models.

• Education: PhD in Environmental Engineering (2008) from National Chiao Tung University

His research integrates geospatial technologies with machine learning to address complex environmental challenges. Key domains include groundwater dynamics, land use/cover change, landslide detection, and air pollution analysis, leveraging big data, remote sensing, and environmental resilience frameworks.

Recent publications highlight applications of deep learning (e.g., LSTM networks) and random forest models in predicting meteorological droughts, groundwater changes, and climate impacts. The work spans interdisciplinary collaboration, with co-authors from institutions in Bangladesh, Austria, and Turkey.