Shuai Li

Focus Areas:

• Earth System Science(opens in new tab)
• Sustainability & Global Environmental Change(opens in new tab)

Country of Origin: China

Degree Program: PhD

Entered Program: Fall 2024

Expected Graduation: Fall 2028

Dissertation Topic: TBD

Research Statement: I’m a Ph.D. student in the geography program at the University of Florida, specializing in land cover/land use change-climate interactions. I hold a bachelor’s and master’s degree in geography. I’m a geographer with expertise in geospatial informatics, applied remote sensing, climate modeling, data fusion, geology, and macrosystem ecology. I’m particularly interested in using geographic information technology to study human-environmental interactions, especially in areas with complex ecology and geology.

Adviser: Dr. Di Yang

Educational Background

• M.S. in Geography, Chengdu University of Technology, 2022
• B.S. in Geography Science, Zhengzhou Normal University, 2019

Recent Publications

Li, S., Yang, D., He, Y., Parazoo, N., & Liu, W. (2026). The impact of land cover change-climate interactions on ecosystem productivity in the Arctic-Boreal region. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 383, 111137.

Li, S., He, Y., Yang, D., Li, Y., & Liu, W. (2026). Incorporating learned geospatial embeddings to deep image prior for inpainting cloud areas in remotely sensed images. Science of Remote Sensing, 100404.

Li, S., Yang, D., He, Y., Parazoo, N., & Liu, W. (2025). The biogeophysical impacts of land cover change on climate extremes in the Arctic and Boreal regions. Environmental Research Letters, 20(8), 084057.

Liu, W., Li, S., Fan, D., Wen, Y., Madson, A., Mitchell, J., ... & Yang, D. (2025). A Deep Learning Workflow for CORONA-based Historical Land Use Classifications. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

Li, S., Ma, H., Yang, D., Hu, W., & Li, H. (2023). The Main Drivers of Wetland Evolution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Plain. Land, 12(2), 480.