Faculty Member
Prof. Wu Zherong
Assistant Professor
B.Eng. (Wuhan U)
PhD (CUHK)
Postdoc (Cornell)
RESEARCH PROJECTS
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- 01/2025-12/2027 Multimodal Data-Driven Land Subsidence Time-Series InSAR Monitoring and Pattern Recognition Method in Coastal Cities (PI, NSFC Young Scientists Fund, CNY 300,000)
- 09/2024-08/2026 Curbing the Climate Model Uncertainties in Predicting the 21st Century Terrestrial Carbon Sink Strength Through Deep Learning (PI, Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, US$ 182,770)
- 07/2024-06/2026 Scaling A Solution to Climate Change, Health, Agriculture, Water and Energy Challenges in Africa (Participant, Cornell Climate Solutions Fund, US$ 150,000)
- 01/2025-06/2026 ACED: Planet-scale AI for accelerating environmental science-Invasive species and Beyond (Participant, NSF Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery, US$ 500,000)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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- Gu, Y., Meng, L., Wang, Y., Wu, Z., Pan, Y., Zhao, Y., Detto, M., & Wu, J. (2025). Uncovering the role of solar radiation and water stress factors in constraining decadal intra-site spring phenology variability in diverse ecosystems across the Northern Hemisphere. New Phytologist, 246(5): 1986-2003.
- Wu, Z., Lehner, F., Luo, Y., Sun, W., Wen, J., & Sun, Y. (2024). Constraining Climate Model Uncertainties in Predicting Terrestrial Carbon Sink Strength Through Deep Learning. In American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2024, Washington, D.C., United States, 9-13 December 2024.
- Wang, Z., Wu, Z., Yang, T., & Ma, P. (2024). Sequential image registration algorithm based on the PrePS points association for GNSS-based InBSAR systems. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 62: 5226012.
- Wu, Z., Ma, P., Zhang, X., & Ye, G. (2024). Efficient management and processing of massive InSAR images using an HPC-based cloud platform. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 17: 2866-2876.
- Ma, P., Yu, C., Jiao, Z., Zheng, Y., Wu, Z.*, Mao, W., & Lin, H. (2024). Improving time-series InSAR deformation estimation for city clusters by deep learning-based atmospheric delay correction. Remote Sensing of Environment, 304: 114004.
- Ma, P., Wu, Z., Zhang, Z., & Au, F. (2024). SAR-Transformer-based decomposition and geophysical interpretation of InSAR time-series deformations for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. Remote Sensing of Environment, 302: 113962.
- Wu, Z., Ma, P., Zheng, Y., Gu, F., Liu, L., & Lin, H. (2023). Automatic detection and classification of land subsidence in deltaic metropolitan areas using distributed scatterer InSAR and Oriented RCNN. Remote Sensing of Environment, 290: 113545.
- Wu, Z., Zhang, X., Cai, J., Ma, P., & Kwan, M.-P. (2023). Understanding spatially non-stationary effects of natural and human-induced factors on land subsidence based on InSAR and multi-source geospatial data: A case study in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. International Journal of Digital Earth, 16(2): 4404-4427.
- Liu, Y., Kwan, M.-P., & Wu, Z. (2022). Visualizing and quantifying the spatiotemporal expansion of
the Blue Lentic Belt in Alabama and Mississippi. Water Research, 217: 118444. - Wu, Z., Zhao, Z., Ma, P., & Huang, B. (2021). Real-world DEM super-resolution based on generative adversarial networks for improving InSAR topographic phase simulation. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14: 8373-8385.
- Zhao, Z., Wu, Z., Zheng, Y., & Ma, P. (2021). Recurrent neural networks for atmospheric noise removal from InSAR time series with missing values. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 180: 227-237.
Teaching Fields
- Aerospace science
- Remote sensing
- Geoinformatics
Research interests
- Satellite remote sensing
- AI for Science
- Urban Geohazard
- Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
Services/ Posts
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- Guest editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
- Scientific review committee member, IEEE/GRSS International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
- Session convener & Chair, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting
- Session chair, American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
- Session Convener, European Geosciences Union General Assembly
Awards
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- 2024 Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, Schmidt Sciences
- 2024 Postgraduate Research Output Award, CUHK
- 2023 1st Place, American Association of Geographers Remote Sensing Specialty Group Honors Paper Competition
- 2023 1st Place, Excellent PhD Dissertation Award, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Hong Kong Chapter
- 2023 Rising Star in GIS, China University GIS Forum
- 2023 Special Prize, China Geospatial Technology Advancement Award
- 2018 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China
- 2018 Rising Star in Remote Sensing, Wuhan University
