Principal Investigator

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Chunyuan Diao

Associate Professor, Department of Geography and GIScience

Associate Head/Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Geography and GIScience
I. C. Gunsalus Scholar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Fellow, Association of American Geographers

Research interests: GeoAI and computational remote sensing; space-time model; multi-scale land surface phenology; digital and climate-smart agriculture; invasive species and biodiversity

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Office: 2034 Natural History Building
Email: chunyuan at illinois.edu

Graduate Students

Tianci (Joanne) Guo

Ph.D. Student in Geography

Research interests: agriculture remote sensing, crop yield, process-based crop model, data assimilation, machine learning/deep learning

Office: 1042 Natural History Building
Email: tiancig2 at illinois.edu

Yin Liu

Ph.D. Student in Geography

Research interests: agriculture remote sensing, time series remote sensing, machine learning/deep learning

Office: 1038 Natural History Building
Email: yinl3 at illinois.edu

 

Zhijie Zhou

Ph.D. Student in Geography

Research interests: time series analysis; image classification; land use and land cover; policy & program evaluation

Office: 1042 Natural History Building
Email: zhijiez2 at illinois.edu

Fangyi Wang

Ph.D. Student in Geography

Research interests: agriculture remote sensing, time series remote sensing, multi-modal deep learning, vision language model.

Office: 1042 Natural History Building
Email: fangyiw3 at illinois.edu

Yuankun Wang

Ph.D. Student in Geography

Research interests: agriculture remote sensing, crop type mapping, machine learning/deep learning

Office: 1042 Natural History Building
Email: yuankun4 at illinois.edu

Undergraduate Students

Ocean Ng, BS in Computer Science

Warren Jodjana, BS in Computer Science and Statistics

Zhiyu Guo, BS in Geography and GIScience and BA in Sociology

Ph.D. Alumni

Zijun Yang

Ph.D. in Geography (2024)
TGI PLANET Fellow

Dissertation: A phenology-guided deep learning framework for near real-time crop monitoring

 

 

Yilun Zhao

Ph.D. in Geography (2025)
NASA FINESST Fellow

Dissertation: Evaluating the influence of biocontrol program on the Colorado River biodiversity with multi-source time series imagery

 

Chishan Zhang

Ph.D. in Geography (2025)
TACC Frontera Computational Science Fellow

Dissertation: A phenology-guided deep learning framework for advanced soybean yield prediction in the Americas

 

Undergraduate and PSM Alumni

Michael Li, PSM in Geography and GIScience

Yerassyl Koshan, PSM in Geography and GIScience

Aidos Makhanov, PSM in Geography and GIScience

Renke Ji, PSM in Geography and GIScience

Zizhao Ge, PSM in Geography and GIScience

Tianshun Deng, PSM in Geography and GIScience

Tong Gong, PSM in Geography and GIScience

Alex Schwarz, BSc in Geology

Jack Chen, BS in Geography and GIScience

Jinzhe Wang, BS in Geography and GIScience

Jerry Huey, BA in Geography and GIScience, Roepke Research Scholar