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Dr. Qiusheng Wu is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He also serves as an Amazon Scholar. Dr. Wu’s research focuses on geospatial data science and open-source software development, with an emphasis on leveraging big geospatial data and cloud computing to study environmental changes, particularly surface water and wetland inundation dynamics. He is the creator of several widely used open-source Python packages, including geemap, leafmap, segment-geospatial, and geoai, which support advanced geospatial analysis and interactive visualization. His open-source work is available at https://github.com/opengeos

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Dr. Xiao Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. His research expertise encompasses human–environment interaction, computational social sciences, urban informatics, disaster mapping and mitigation, GeoAI, and disaster remote sensing. Dr. Huang has contributed extensively to his field, with nearly 5000 Google Scholar citations, authoring over 220 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 20 book chapters, and playing a pivotal role in editing 5 books. He is among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in Stanford/Elsevier's rankings. In his professional capacity, he serves as an Associate Editor for Computational Urban Science and is a member of the Editorial Board for several prestigious journals, including Big Earth Data, International Journal of Digital Earth, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Remote Sensing, Current Social Sciences, and PLOS ONE. Dr. Huang's research has garnered significant attention and received coverage in renowned media outlets such as Nature News, NASA, NBC, and Fox. His work has attracted substantial funding from NSF, NASA, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Academies, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Furthermore, Dr. Huang is a respected reviewer for NASA and NSF grants and has reviewed manuscripts for over 55 international and national journals.

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Dr. Di Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Florida. Her research expertise focuses on remote sensing applications in human–environment interactions, geospatial analytics, machine learning and GeoAI, citizen science, and land change science. Dr. Yang has established an extensive research portfolio, with numerous high-impact publications in prestigious journals. She currently serves as a science advisor for the NASA DEVELOP Program and holds editorial positions with Nature Scientific Reports. Dr. Yang has secured substantial research funding, including for forecasting mosquito-borne disease risk and evaluating land-use impacts on fire regimes. Her innovative integration of citizen science with Earth observation has been implemented in multiple projects, earning recognition through competitive awards, including the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Ambassadors and Presidential Faculty Fellowship. Dr. Yang's collaborative research spans government agencies, academic institutions, and international partners, with substantial contributions to open science initiatives that enhance environmental monitoring capabilities through cloud computing frameworks and artificial intelligence applications.