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January 2026

• [Paper online] My first-authored paper publised on Communications Earth & Environment: “Irrigation cooling effect reduced by water-saving practices”. We find water-saving irrigation weakened daytime cooling and enhance nighttime cooling across China. Satellite and surface energy balance analyses (2001-2020) link this to reduced soil evaporation, increased sensible heat, and altered land-atmosphere interactions. Please check here https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-03030-5 for details.

December 2025

• I attended the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, on 14-19 December 2025.
• During the conference, I presented a poster titled “Non-Local Moisture Recycling Modulates Carbon-Water Trade-offs Under Future Land Use Change” on December 15.

August 2025

• I attended the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) Annual Meeting in the sunshine city, Brisbane, Australia, on 3-8 August 2025.
• During the conference, I presented a poster titled “RICE YIELD FORECAST USING A GNN-RNN FRAMEWORK” on August 5.

July 2025

• I attended the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Annual Meeting in Singapore, where I did not need to fly a long journey.
• During the conference, I presented a poster titled “Annual Rice Yield Maps for Southeast Asia Using Deep Learning, Satellite Imagery, and Environmental Data” on July 29.

April 2025

• I attended the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria—a beautiful city with warm and welcoming people.
• It was my first time visiting, and I was delighted to engage with scholars I’ve been following for years.
• During the conference, I presented a poster titled “A GNN-RNN Framework for Rice Yield Prediction in South Asia” on April 29.

December 2024

• I attended the 2024 AGU Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C.—my first time at the event—and was truly amazed by the scale and vibrancy of the Earth science community.
• During the conference, I delivered an oral presentation titled “Widespread Spillover Effects of Irrigation on Water Availability in the United States” on December 10, and a poster presentation “AI-driven High-resolution Rice Yield Prediction Aided by Satellite Data” on December 13.

June 2024

• [Paper online] My co-authored paper publised on Scientific Data, generating a new cropland map in Southwest China: “Validation and refinement of cropland map in southwestern China by harnessing ten contemporary datasets”. Please check here https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03508-5 for details.

January 2024

• [Paper online] My co-authored paper publised on The Crop Journal, evaluating six high-resolution cropland maps in China: “Decoding the inconsistency of six cropland maps in China”. Please check here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2023.11.011 for details.

September 2023

• I accept the offer from National University of Singapore and am to begain the new career as postdoctoral Research Fellow in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

June 2023

• [Congratulations] I succeed to pass my dissertation defense and become a DOCTOR of Philosophy now! Yes, I finally graduate from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Thanks to my tutors Prof. Quansheng GE and Prof. Jinwei DONG, thanks to my family, and, thanks to me for my persistence and endavors.

March 2023

• [Paper online] My first-authored paper publised on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, introducing the declined cooling effects of irrigation in Norhwest China during the last two decades due to increasing water-saving technology: “Attenuated cooling effects with increasing water-saving irrigation: Satellite evidence from Xinjiang, China”. Please check here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109397 for details.

January 2023

• [Paper online] My first-authored paper publised on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, introducing the cooling effects of irrigation expansion on land surface temperature: “Characterizing spatial, diurnal, and seasonal patterns of agricultural irrigation expansion-induced cooling in Northwest China from 2000 to 2020”. Please check here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109304 for details.

July 2022

• [Paper online] My first-authored paper publised on Remote Sensing of Environment, introducing the improved irrigated cropland dataset across China for 2000-2019: “IrriMap_CN: Annual irrigation maps across China in 2000–2019 based on satellite observations, environmental variables, and machine learning”. Please check here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113184 for details.

June 2022

• [Paper online] My first-authored paper publised on International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, describing a new method to map irrigated croplands across China in 2015 with a focus on generating national-wide ground samples: “Mapping irrigated croplands in China using a synergetic training sample generating method, machine learning classifier, and Google Earth Engine”. Please check here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102888 for details.

May 2022

• [Paper online] My first-authored paper publised on Scientific Data, illustrating the data and codes of the first kind of irrigated croplands in China (IrriMap_Syn): “Mapping 20 years of irrigated croplands in China using MODIS and statistics and existing irrigation products”. All data and codes are open to public. Please check here https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01522-z for details.

April 2022

• [Paper online] My first-authored paper publised on Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, comparing six 30-m cropland dataset across China for 2015: “Quantifying the accuracies of six 30-m cropland datasets over China: A comparison and evaluation analysis”. Please check here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2022.106946 for details.

January 2022

• [Congratulations] I am now a Ph.D. candidate! I just passed my dissertation proposal defense and gained A (highest score) from all seven comittee members.

• [Paper online] My first paper during my PhD period “Tracking spatiotemporal dynamics of irrigated croplands in China from 2000 to 2019 through the synergy of remote sensing, statistics, and historical irrigation datasets” has been published online! We introduce a synergy mapping method to produce the first kind of irrigated croplands in China in the last two decades. Please check our paper here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107458

September 2020

• [Congratulations] I am to begin a new career as Ph.D. student in the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. A new and splendid world is waiting for me.