Past Graduate Students
Abureli Aierken
M.S., 2018
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
Andrea Albright
Ph.D., 2022
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Nearshore Bathymetry from Fusion of ICESat-2 and Multispectral Satellite Imagery
Surendar Babu
M.S., 2022
Current Job: GIS Analyst at Houston Public Works
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
Cami Barlow
Ph.D., 2026
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: A Comprehensive Spatial Analysis of Stream Boundary and Geomorphological Change Detection: McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Rebecca Brown
M.S., 2019
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Data Quality Analysis of the Leica SPL100 Airborne Single Photon Lidar Sensor
Ning Cao
Ph.D., 2016
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Advanced SAR Interferometry Methods for Ground Displacement Estimation from Spaceborne and Airborne Platforms
Chi-Hung Chang
Ph.D., 2021
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Forecasting Flood Levels and Areal Inundation in Downstream Mekong Using Remotely Sensed Data and Modeling
Ziyue Dang
M.S., 2022
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
Yosef Darge
M.S., 2025
Advisor: Dr. Pietro Milillo
Jieying Ding
M.S., 2023
Advisor: Dr. Pietro Milillo
Sun Do
M.S., 2022
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Assessment of Hydropower Development Impacts on Hydrological Balance and Inundation Dynamics Change of the Lower Mekong River Basin
Tien Du
Ph.D., 2021
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Operational Water Management in Highly Regulated, Transboundary Watersheds Using Multi-Basin Modeling, Earth Observations and Co-Production
Nima Ekhtari
Ph.D., 2018
nekhtari [at] uh.edu
Current Job: Research Assistant Professor at University of Houston
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Land Cover and Impervious Surface Mapping Using Multispectral Airborne Laser Scanner Data
Pete Gadomski
M.S., 2016
Current Job: Geospatial Engineer at Development Seed
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Measuring Glacier Surface Velocities with LiDAR: A Comparison of Three-Dimensional Change Detection Methods
Nicole Guinn
Ph.D., 2026
nkguinn [at] uh.edu
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Natural Recorders from Space: Trees and Their Role in Volcanic Environments.
Francisco Haces-Garcia
Ph.D., 2025
fhacesgarcia [at] uh.edu
Current Job: Stormwater Engineer at Freese and Nichols
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Flood Resilience Across Timescales in Urban Environments
Preston Hartzell
Ph.D., 2016
Current Job: Senior Geospatial Software Engineer at Element 84
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Active and Passive Sensor Fusion for Terrestrial Hyperspectral Image Shadow Detection and Restoration
Darren Hauser
M.S., 2013
dlhauser [at] uh.edu
Current Job: Researcher at National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Three-Dimensional Accuracy Analysis of a Mapping-Grade Mobile Laser Scanning System
Donghwan Kim
Ph.D., 2019
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Ensemble Learning Regression for Estimating River Discharge Using Remotely Sensed Data and Hydrological Model
Arpan Kusari
Ph.D., 2015
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Precise Registration of Laser Mapping Data by Planar Feature Extraction for Deformation Mapping
Ashutosh Lamsal
M.S., 2026
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Jordan Laughlin
M.S., 2020
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Radiometric and Geometric Calibration of an Inexpensive LED-Based Lidar Sensor
Andrew Lyda
M.S., 2019
awlyda [at] uw.edu
Current Job: Operations Engineer at NHERI RAPID Facility
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
Srijani Mukherjee
M.S., 2019
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
Ngoc Nguyen
Ph.D., 2026
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Estimating Reservoir Storage Dynamics Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Hypsometric Information
Zhigang Pan
Ph.D., 2016
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Shallow Water Bathymetry Using Full Waveform Bathymetric LiDAR and Hyperspectral Imagery
Natalya Ross
Ph.D., 2025
Advisor: Dr. Pietro Milillo
Thesis: Dynamics of Antarctic Glaciers Using Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing Observations and Ice-Sheet Models
Ihab Shaheen
M.S., 2022
Current Job: Geospatial Specialist at GSG Consultants
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
Sven Sorhus
M.S., 2021
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Estimating Snowfall Metrics with a Terrestrial Laser Scanner
Zhiyue Sun
Ph.D., 2019
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Estimating Glacier Ice Thickness and Mass Balance using Multiple Spaceborne Geodetic Techniques
Amirhossein Tayyebi
M.S., 2018
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
Hongzhou Wang
Ph.D., 2016
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Fusion of Full Waveform LiDAR and Passive Remote Sensing for Improved Land-Cover Classification
Xiao Wang
Ph.D., 2017
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Filtering of Single Photon LiDAR Data
Ting Yuan
Ph.D., 2017
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Congo Wetlands Hydrology using SAR, InSAR, and Radar Altimetry
Xiao Zhang
Ph.D., 2016
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Lidar Based Change Detection for Earthquake Surface Ruptures
Xinxiang "Sean" Zhu
Ph.D., 2022
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Estimated Distributed Near-Field Surface Displacements Using Nascent Mobile Laser Scanning