I'm a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, co-advised by Professor Ximing Cai and Professor Arindam Banerjee. My research focuses on machine learning, remote sensing, and food security. At UIUC, I worked on the NSF project, Urban Flood Open Knowledge Network (UF-OKN), contributing to the application of text mining for flood control and evacuation. I obtained my B.S. and M.S. at National Taiwan University, where I worked on remote sensing satellite images and machine learning coupled with flood simulation to assess the impacts of extreme events caused by climate change with Professor Ching-Pin Tung (NTU) and Professor Akiyuki Kawasaki (University of Tokyo). Before joining UIUC, I worked at Taiwan Centers for Disease Control and National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction. I was awarded a one-year grant to study at The University of Tokyo. While studying at UTokyo, I visited Myanmar for tidal bore observation and collecting land use data. I wrote a series of blog posts for the field trip. In 2018, I joined PASCO Corporation as a deep learning research intern, where I researched convolutional neural networks and satellite imagery.

Interests: remote sensing, machine learning, food security, flooding, water resources management