The Integrated Digital Forestry Initiative 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.



Grad Students/Post Doctoral Researchers
Aviles Toledo, Claudia, Ph.D., cavilest@purdue.edu
Lab: Melba Crawford
Carpenter, Joshua, Ph.D., jcarpene@purdue.edu
Lab: Jinha Jung
Research: tree inventory
Chandrasekaran, Aishwarya, Ph.D., chandr95@purdue.edu
Lab: Guofan Shao & Songlin Fei
Research: inventory
Choi, Dennis, Postdoc, dhchoi@purdue.edu
Lab: Brady Hardiman and Songlin Fei
Research: LiDAR structure
Chong, Ken, MSc, chong54@purdue.edu
Lab: Jacob Hosen
Research: Sensor
Ciupak, Meghan, MSc, mciupak@purdu.edu
Lab: Jacob Hosen
Research: water
Firoze, Adnan, Ph.D., afiroze@purdue.edu
Lab: Daniel Aliaga
Research: AI for urban tree
Gaillard, Mathiew, Ph.D., mgaillar@purdue.edu
Lab: Bedrich Benes
Research: AI
Hashemin, Jeghdad, Ph.D., hashemin@purdue.edu
Lab: Ayman Habib
Research: inventory
Heidar, Rastiveis, Postdoc, h.rasti@gmail.com
Lab: Ayman Habib
Research: LiDAR analytics
Huang, An-Te, MSc, huan1577@purdue.edu
Lab: Melba Crawford
Huang, Yunmei, Ph.D., huan1643@purdue.edu
Lab: Songlin Fei
Research: AI species Id
Joseph, Mina, MSc, mjosephf@purdue.edu
Lab: Ayman Habib
Li, Bowen, MSc, li4245@purdue.edu
Lab: Guofan Shao
Research: Mapping
Li, Bsheng, Ph.D., li2343@purdue.edu
Lab: Bedrich Benes
Research: AI
Lin, Jill, Ph.D., lin934@purdue.edu
Lab: Ayman Habib
Research: inventory
Liu, Jidong, Ph.D., liu2845@purdue.edu
Lab: Ayman Habib
Research: UAV
Manish, Raja, Ph.D., rmanish@purdue.edu
Lab: Ayman Habib
Research: inventory
Nazeri, Behrokh, Postdoc, bnazeri@purdue.edu
Lab: John Couture
Research: disease
Oh, Sungchan, Postdoc, oh231@purdue.edu
Lab: Jinha Jung & Songlin Fei
Research: mapping
Osterman, Ian, MSc, iosterma@purdue.edu
Lab: Bedrich Benes
Park, Sylvia, Ph.D., park1200@purdue.edu
Lab: John Couture & Douglass Jacobs
Research: disease
Quijano, Karoll, Ph.D., kquijano@purdue.edu
Lab: Melba Crawford
Ravi, Radhika, Ph.D., ravi22@purdue.edu
Lab: Ayman Habib
Research: inventory
Ritter, Madie, MSc, ritter33@purdue.edu
Lab: Jacob Hosen
Shao, Jinyuan, Ph.D., jyshao@purdue.edu
Lab: Songlin Fei
Research: AI point cloud
Song, Zhihang, Ph.D., song399@purdue.edu
Lab: Jian Jin
Research: disease
Tang, Weitao, Ph.D., tang384@purdue.edu
Lab: Baijian Yang
Research: AI for fire
Thapa, Bina, Postdoc, thapab@purdue.edu
Lab: Songlin Fei
Research: tree ecophysiology
Toca, Andrei, Postdoc, otoca@purdue.edu
Lab: Douglass Jacobs
Wang, Taojun, Ph.D., wang3241@purdue.edu
Lab: Melba Crawford
Warner, Charlie, MSc, warner88@purdue.edu
Lab: Rado Gazo
Research: bark id
Wei, Xing, Postdoc, wei408@purdue.edu
Lab: Jian Jin
Research: disease sensing
Wingren, Cameron, MSc. cwingren@purdue.edu
Lab: Joseph Hupy & Songlin Fei
Research: UAV
Wu, Fanyou, Postdoc, wu1297@purdue.edu
Lab: Rado Gazo
Research: image recognition
Yi-Cheng, Ting, Ph.D., cheng331@purdue.edu
Lab: Ayman Habib
Research: inventory
Zhou, Tian, Ph.D., zhou732@purdue.edu
Lab: Ayman Habib
Research: inventory