OUR TEAM
Our grassroots effort across the Purdue campus is leveraging digital technology with multidisciplinary expertise to revolutionize forestry and build a globally competitive next generation workforce for the information age.
The Institute for Digital Forestry brings together a multidisciplinary research team from forestry, engineering, geomatics, computer science, aviation technology, information science and other disciplines to explore remote sensing, big data and artificial intelligence and methods for applying them to forestry. The team is supported by Purdue Research Computing, offering world-class cloud computing and a network of supercomputers.
LEADERSHIP
Songlin Fei
Areas of focus: Forest ecology, modeling, remote sensing
Ayman Habib
Areas of focus: System integration, system calibration, geo-referencing, data integration/fusion
Melba Crawford
Areas of focus: Remote sensing, machine learning algorithms and applications
Brady Hardiman
Areas of focus: Structure and function in coupled natural and human ecosystems
Carl Huetteman
FACULTY
Daniel Aliaga
Areas of focus: Computer graphics/vision, deep visual computing, machine learning
Bedrich Benes
Aniket Bera
Victor Chen
Areas of focus: Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Visual Analytics
Anna Conrad
John Couture
James L. Garrison
Rado Gazo
Matthew Ginzel
Jacob Hosen
Joseph Hupy
Douglass Jacobs
Mike Jenkins
Areas of focus: Forest ecology, disturbance ecology, invasive species
Jian Jin
Areas of focus: Machine systems engineering, data science, digital agriculture
Jinha Jung
Areas of focus: Remote sensing, LiDAR, HPC for remote sensing applications, WebGIS
Nicole Kong
Areas of focus: GIS, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, geoportal
Damon Lercel
Areas of focus: Unmanned aircraft systems, advanced air mobility, workforce development
Zhao Ma
Areas of focus: Decision-making in environmental and natural resource management, conservation in the context of social-ecological change
Mindy Mallory
Areas of focus: Analyzing risks and tradeoffs in commodity and resource markets
Cheryl Zhenyu Qian
Michael Saunders
Gang Shao
Areas of focus: Remote sensing, data visualization and data science education
Guofan Shao
Areas of focus: Optical remote sensing, automated tree measurement
Yu She
Areas of focus: Intersection of mechanical design, sensory perception, and dynamic control, human-safe collaborative robots
Jianmin Wang
Mark Ward
Areas of focus Analysis of algorithms, data science, science of information, game theory, and large-scale computation
Baijian Yang
Raymond Yeh
Areas of focus: Computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning
Song Zhang
Areas of focus: Design, Systems, measurements, and controls
Tonglin Zhang
Areas of focus: mathematical statistics, spatial statistics, Bayesian analysis, high-dimensional data analysis, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Carla Zoltowski
STAFF
Ericka Bethel
Nancy Cramer
Jarrod Doucette
Areas of focus: Combining data architecture and stewardship to improve analytic and visualization capabilities
Lenny Farlee
Areas of focus: Providing relevant, science-based forest management and tree regeneration information for the Central Hardwood Region.
Jackie Getson
Areas of focus: Logistics and operations of Institute for Digital Forestry
Benny Goller
Areas of focus: Experimental design, data quality control, analytic pipelines, simulations, and visualization
Katie Grong
Areas of focus: genetic tree improvement, online database for synthesizing forest invasive pests
Ben Hancock
Areas of focus: working with Jinha Jung to develop a platform on collected UAS data including public catalog making data more accessible
Ben McCallister
Areas of focus: Utilize Digital Forestry LiDAR and spectral photography to enhance practices in both arboriculture and urban forestry
Cameron Wingren
Areas of focus: UAS data collection, geospatial data collection/processing, data collection, processing, and dissemination between researchers and stakeholder groups
Grad Students and Postdoctoral Researchers
Abdelrahman Abdelghany
Gaia Cervini
Dennis Choi
Elisabeth Joll
Delaney Jones
Minyoung Jung
Yawen Lu
Charlie Warner
Hong Zhao
