Yun Li – stcenter

Yun Li

Bio:
Yun Li received her bachelor's in Software engineering and master’s degrees in Geographic information science from Wuhan University in 2009 and 2011. After graduation, she worked in one of the top best technology companies in China, Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., dedicated in big data management and analysis. She’s now a PhD student of GGS department of GMU and her research mainly focuses on the Earth data discovery, high performance computing, and outreach to spatial temporal analytics for environmental and climate data. She has worked as Co-I for several R&D projects funded by NASA and NSF. The MUDROD Earth data discovery project, in which she served as the one of the lead developers, leveraging machine learning algorithms to improve data discovery in the Earth science domain. The project is being evaluated at NASA to be integrated into the operational system. The Planetary Defense project she attended leveraged the advanced framework proposed in the MUDROD project to serve the PD domain for data discovery, analysis and visualization. She also worked as one of the developers for STCSpark, which aims to provide a high-performance framework for vector data analysis. She is the author and co-author of 10 international papers introducing her researches in these research projects. She has experience of presenting her research on multiple international conferences, such as ISSC, AAG, AGU and ESIP meetings.