🎨Vincent Van Gogh: I often think that the night is even more alive and richly colored than the day
🗺️Qiming: So do I

🚨Opportunities👩🏻‍🎓👨🏼‍🎓

I am looking for 1 PhD Student(2024 Spring), 1-2 PhD Students (2025 Fall), 1 Postdoc (2024 Fall) and Visiting scholars to join my team at CUHK and work on one of the following topics: Nighttime Light Remote Sensing, Urban Sustainability, Global Environmental Changes, and Nature-based Climate Solutions. More Details.

🌏Welcome to my homepage

My research interests center on the human-environment-climate nexus. I aim to leverage remote sensing based geospatial intelligence, environment and climate models, and other advanced interdisciplinary approaches to better understand the impacts of human activities on environmental and climate changes, and to deliver policy-relevant solutions to cutting-edge challenges in climate change mitigation and sustainable development. My current research focuses on the following themes:

  • Remote sensing of urban environment;
  • Opportunities and uncertainties in nature-based climate solutions;
  • Global environmental and climate changes;
  • Nighttime light remote sensing;

📰News

  • 01/10/2024: I started my new service duty as an external editor of Communications Earth and Environment
  • 02/07/2024: I received a HK$730K General Research Fund from Research Grants Council Hong Kong (role: PI).
  • 02/07/2024: I officially joined the Dept. of Geography and Resource Management at Chinese University of Hong Kong as a full-time Assistant Professor (tenure-track).
  • 24/05/2024: My co-authored paper on “Downscalling VIIRS Nighttime light image” has been published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation! [Download(OA)]
  • 20/04/2024: My publications exceeded 1,000 Google Scholar citations!
  • 18/03/2024: Our review paper “Nighttime light remote sensing for urban applications: progress, challenges, and prospects” is ESI highly cited! [Download (OA)].
  • 27/01/2024: Our work “Geo-STO3Net: A deep neural network integrating geographical spatiotemporal information for surface ozone estimation” was accepted by IEEE TGRS ! [Download].
  • 08/01/2024: I joined the Dept. of Geography and Resource Management at Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Part-time Lecturer.
  • 20/12/2023: The work that I supervised,”Estimating building heights in complex urban areas”, has been published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation![Download(OA)]
  • 13/12/2023: My co-authored paper on “Uncertainties in deforestation emission baseline methodologies” has been published in Nature Communications! [Download (OA)]
  • 29/09/2023: We posted an eLetter commentary on light pollution measurements in Science. [View eLetter].
  • 21/09/2023: Our manuscript about global abandoned cropland was published in Nature Communications.[Download (OA)].[Media:Eurekalert AAAS;Earth.com; see More].
  • 08/08/2023: Our proposed research on building height estimation was selected for Alibaba DAMO Academy AI Earth Joint Research & Innovation Programme.
  • 17/06/2023: I gave a talk on “Impact of temporal compositing on nighttime light data and its applications” at Quantitative RS Forum 2023, Chengdu, China. [Photo@Twitter].
  • 29/05/2023: Our review paper “Nighttime light remote sensing for urban applications: progress, challenges, and prospects” was published in ISPRS P&RS Journal [Download (OA)].

✉️Contact Info.

Qiming Zheng, Ph.D.
Department of Geography and Resource Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2nd Floor, Wong Foo Yuan Building
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

Email: qmzheng@cuhk.edu.hk
Department Page: [Link]

Updated 15/07/2024