Our Team

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.
DIRECTORS

Songlin Fei
Areas of focus: Forest ecology, modeling, remote sensing

Ayman Habib
Areas of focus: System integration, system calibration, geo-referencing, data integration/fusion

Carl Huetteman
STEERING COMMITTEE

Brady Hardiman

Zhao Ma

Baijian Yang
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

Melba Crawford

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

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

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

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
