Past Graduate Students
![Abureli Aierken](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/aierkin.jpg)
Abureli Aierken
M.S., 2018
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
![Andrea Albright](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/albright.jpg)
Andrea Albright
Ph.D., 2022
Current Job: Postdoctoral Reasearcher at USDA Watershed Research Laboratory
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Nearshore Bathymetry from Fusion of ICESat-2 and Multispectral Satellite Imagery
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Surendar Babu
M.S., 2022
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
![Rebecca Brown](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/brown.jpg)
Rebecca Brown
M.S., 2019
Current Job: Data Analyst at GeoDigital International
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Data Quality Analysis of the Leica SPL100 Airborne Single Photon Lidar Sensor
![Ning Cao](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/cao.jpg)
Ning Cao
Ph.D., 2016
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Advanced SAR Interferometry Methods for Ground Displacement Estimation from Spaceborne and Airborne Platforms
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Chi-Hung Chang
Ph.D., 2021
cchang21 [at] uh.edu
Current Job: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Houston
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Forecasting Flood Levels and Areal Inundation in Downstream Mekong Using Remotely Sensed Data and Modeling
![Ziyue Dang](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/dang.jpg)
Ziyue Dang
M.S., 2022
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
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Jieying Ding
M.S., 2023
Advisor: Dr. Pietro Milillo
Thesis:
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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](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/du.jpg)
Tien Du
Ph.D., 2021
ldu9 [at] uh.edu
Current Job: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Houston
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Operational Water Management in Highly Regulated, Transboundary Watersheds Using Multi-Basin Modeling, Earth Observations and Co-Production
![Nima Ekhtari](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/ekhtari.jpg)
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](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/gadomski.jpg)
Pete Gadomski
M.S., 2016
Current Job: Sr. Geospatial Software Engineer at Element 84
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Measuring Glacier Surface Velocities with LiDAR: A Comparison of Three-Dimensional Change Detection Methods
![Preston Hartzell](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/Preston_0.jpg)
Preston Hartzell
Ph.D., 2016
Current Job: 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](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/hauser.jpg)
Darren Hauser
M.S., 2013
dlhauser [at] uh.edu
Current Job: Research Associate at NCALM
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Three-Dimensional Accuracy Analysis of a Mapping-Grade Mobile Laser Scanning System
![Donghwan Kim](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/kim.jpg)
Donghwan Kim
Ph.D., 2019
Current Job: 102nd Engineer Battalion Commander, 1st Corps with the Republic of Korea Army
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Ensemble Learning Regression for Estimating River Discharge Using Remotely Sensed Data and Hydrological Model
![Arpan Kusari](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/kusari.jpg)
Arpan Kusari
Ph.D., 2015
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Precise Registration of Laser Mapping Data by Planar Feature Extraction for Deformation Mapping
![Jordan Laughlin](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/laughlin.jpg)
Jordan Laughlin
M.S., 2020
jordan.laughlin [at] westpoint.edu
Current Job: Instructor at West Point
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Radiometric and Geometric Calibration of an Inexpensive LED-Based Lidar Sensor
![Andrew Lyda](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/lyda.jpg)
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](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/mukherjee.jpg)
Srijani Mukherjee
M.S., 2019
Current Job: AI/Computer Vision R&D Engineer at GeoDigital International
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
![Zhigang Pan](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/pan.jpg)
Zhigang Pan
Ph.D., 2016
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Shallow Water Bathymetry Using Full Waveform Bathymetric LiDAR and Hyperspectral Imagery
![Sven Sorhus](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/sorhus.jpg)
Sven Sorhus
M.S., 2021
Current Job: GIS Analyst at Arup Canada
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Estimating Snowfall Metrics with a Terrestrial Laser Scanner
![Zhiyue Sun](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/sun.jpg)
Zhiyue Sun
Ph.D., 2019
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Estimating Glacier Ice Thickness and Mass Balance using Multiple Spaceborne Geodetic Techniques
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Amirhossein Tayyebi
M.S., 2018
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Non-Thesis Degree
![Xiao Wang](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/wang.jpg)
Xiao Wang
Ph.D., 2017
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Filtering of Single Photon LiDAR Data
![Hongzhou Wang](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/h_wang.jpg)
Hongzhou Wang
Ph.D., 2016
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Fusion of Full Waveform LiDAR and Passive Remote Sensing for Improved Land-Cover Classification
![Ting Yuan](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/yuan.jpg)
Ting Yuan
Ph.D., 2017
Advisor: Dr. Hyongki Lee
Thesis: Congo Wetlands Hydrology using SAR, InSAR, and Radar Altimetry
![Xiao Zhang](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/Xiao_0.jpg)
Xiao Zhang
Ph.D., 2016
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Lidar Based Change Detection for Earthquake Surface Ruptures
![Xinxiang Zhu](/sites/ncalm.cive.uh.edu/files/images/students/zhu.jpg)
Xinxiang "Sean" Zhu
Ph.D., 2022
Current Job: Software Engineer at Torc Robotics
Advisor: Dr. Craig Glennie
Thesis: Estimated Distributed Near-Field Surface Displacements Using Nascent Mobile Laser Scanning