Ruohan Li
r526li AT umd.edu
Department of Geographical Sciences
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Hello and welcome! I’m a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, working with Dr. Yiqun Xie, and a member of Global Ecology Lab.
My research uses AI to integrate remote sensing, in situ observations, and process-based models to enable robust, high-resolution, and scalable Earth-system monitoring and forecasting and develops </strong>user-inspired AI methods</strong> for mining spatiotemporal data to address geospatial challenges. My work spans land–atmosphere interactions and surface energy and radiative fluxes, high-resolution cloud and radiance nowcasting, and modeling and forecasting of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics.
During my PhD, I contributed to several NASA satellite products, including MODIS/Terra+Aqua MCD18, VIIRS VNP18A1, and AHI/ABI GeoNEX DSR/PAR, supervised by Dr. Dongdong Wang. In parellel, I use machine learning to address the accuracy–efficiency trade-off that limits physics-based retrievals at higher spatial resolution.
Before I joined UMD, I graduated with a B.E. from Wuhan University, China, and a B.S. from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
