PROGRAM FACULTY

LU LIANG, Program Director

Assistant Professor / Advisor BS in GIS + CS

Office: ENV 310R
Email: Lu.Liang@unt.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/liang3mlab/home

Dr. Liang is a geospatial scientist. The broad goal of her research is to develop novel data, scientific theory, and models to study how the feedbacks among physical environmental, biosphere, and anthroposphere are manifested in land surface change, and how these interactions can be assessed at various scales using rigorous interdisciplinary approaches. Dr. Liang runs a "Monitoring-Mapping-Modeling" (3M) lab, with the focus on using modern opportunities to acquire frequent and accurate spatial data and create more comprehensive and informative analyses by combining the data from different instruments (ground-based, airborne, and satellite measurement) with complementary attributes.

PINLIANG DONG, Program Faculty

Professor / GIS Certificate Coordinator

Office: ENV 310B
Email: Pinliang.Dong@unt.edu
Website: http://www.geog.unt.edu/~pdong/ and https://faculty.unt.edu/editprofile.php?onlyview=1&pid=1136

Dr. Dong teaches Intermediate GIS, Advanced GIS, Advanced GIS Programming, Introduction to Remote Sensing, and Special Problems. He advises graduate student research in GIS, remote sensing, and applications in geographic and environmental sciences. Recent graduate theses include selecting optimal residential locations using GIS, vegetation mapping using NASAs EO-1 hyperspectral image data, development of a GIS toolkit for wildlife tracking, and small-area population estimation using high resolution satellite images and LiDAR data.

Wei Kang, Program Faculty

Assistant Professor

Office: ENV 320J

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY

LINGZI HONG, Assistant Professor

Department of Information Science, College of Information

Office: Discovery Park, Room E292E
Phone: 940-565-8545
Email: Lingzi.Hong@unt.edu

Research Interests: Data Science and Engineering; Urban Computing; Crisis Informatics; and Data Ethics

SHENGLI FU, Professor and Interim Dean

Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering

Office: Discovery Park, Room B276
Phone: 940-891-6942
Email: Shengli.Fu@unt.edu

Research area: Communication and Signal Processing, Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles