Qian Liu

  • Position:
    Graduate Research Assistant (January 2017 - Present)
  • Education:
    January 2017 - Present, Ph.D. in Earth Systems and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University
    2011, M.S. in Remote Sensing Science and Technology, Wuhan University
    2009, B.S. in Remote Sensing Science and Technology, Wuhan University
  • Bio:
    Qian Liu received her bachelor's and master’s degrees in Remote Sensing from Wuhan University in 2009 and 2011. She has a 5-year working experience in National Geometics Center of China, dedicated in surface monitoring related projections. Her research mainly focuses on the core areas of precipitation downscaling and analysis, and outreach to environmental and climate science and spatial temporal analytics. She is the author and co-author of 4 international and Chinese journal papers. She has applied and received funding as a Co-I for one project from NASA and NSF and currently funded by Ligado company to do application research of GOES-16 data. She has experience of presenting her research on multiple international conferences, such as ISSC, AAG, and AGU. She also served as the organizing committee for meetings (e.g., 2017 ISSC). She’s now a Phd student of GGS department of GMU and working on precipitation spatiotemporal analytics, deep learning, remote sensing, trying to solve the contradiction of data limitation and requirements.