Summary
Yanlei Feng is an environmental specialist with a decade of experience applying remote sensing, spatial modeling, and statistical methods to quantify forest carbon dynamics and greenhouse gas impacts from natural disturbances. She has blended academic rigor—PhD research and postdoctoral work at Berkeley, Carnegie, and MIT—with practical inventory and geospatial visualization work for the Washington State Department of Ecology. Yanlei’s technical toolkit includes Google Earth Engine, multispectral and LiDAR analysis, machine learning for disturbance prediction, and life-cycle/techno-economic assessment of engineered climate solutions. Her research uniquely links storm-driven tree mortality mapping to carbon stock loss and explores anaerobic digestion and waste biomass as carbon-management strategies. Based in Lacey, Washington, she brings both policy-relevant inventory experience and hands-on model development that bridges field-scale impacts to state-level greenhouse gas accounting.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, earth system science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, earth system science at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor’s Degree, Environmental Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Environmental Science at Nanjing University
Master’s Degree, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning, Master’s Degree, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning at Cornell University
Bachelor’s Degree, Geography and Environmental Management, Bachelor’s Degree, Geography and Environmental Management at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, Japanese