Di Yang

Di Yang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, specializing in geospatial technologies and environmental monitoring. His research integrates machine learning, remote sensing, and citizen science to address land use changes, ecosystem dynamics, and human-environment interactions across global scales. He leads projects funded by NASA, BLM, and NCAR, focusing on topics like forest management, climate resilience, and geospatial cloud computing.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Geography, University of Florida (2019)
• M.S. in Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University-Kingsville (2013)
• B.S. in Environmental Science, Liaoning University of Petroleum and Chemical Technology (2011)

Research Interests: Remote sensing applications, geospatial analytics, machine learning for environmental monitoring, citizen science, land change science, and sustainability.

Grants & Projects:

• NASA: Forecasting Mosquito-Borne Disease Risk in a Changing Climate (PI)
• NASA Early-Career: Evaluating Long-term Impacts of Land-use Transformation on Fire Regimes
• BLM: Monitoring Yermo xanthocephalus using UAS and AI/ML

His lab develops innovative frameworks like the Open Land-Use Map strategy and leverages platforms like Google Earth Engine for large-scale environmental analysis. Yang actively collaborates on NEON biodiversity surveys and contributes to ecological network design.