Xi Yang
Associate Professor
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXi Yang is an associate professor and remote sensing ecologist with 11 years of experience studying how climate change alters plant phenology across terrestrial ecosystems. Trained in Brown University's Remote Sensing and Ecology PhD program and with postdoctoral experience at MBL/Brown, Xi combines digital camera time-series, satellite remote sensing, spectroscopy, and novel in-vivo solar-induced fluorescence methods to link seasonal biochemical and structural plant dynamics to canopy-level signals. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, Xi has transitioned academic roles from graduate researcher to faculty at the University of Virginia, bringing both field-based measurement expertise and instrument-development skills. Notably, Xi’s work bridges fine-scale physiological insight with scalable optical monitoring approaches, enabling more precise detection of budburst, greenup, senescence, and leaf coloration responses to changing climates.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Geoscience, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Geoscience at Beijing Normal UniversityPhD, Remote sensing, Ecology, PhD, Remote sensing, Ecology at Brown University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
ecosystem9
hydrology9
robotics3
sdk2
rover2
camera2
lidar2
trajectory-optimization1
dji-sdk1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
geoxiyang/FluxCourse
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 12 pushes in 4 months
geoxiyang/IntroductionToRemoteSensing
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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