Dr. Xinyi Shen has been an assistant professor at the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 2022. He completed his BS at the School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University (2007) and his PhD at the Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University (2012). He was previously an assistant research professor at the University of Connecticut. He did postdoc work at the University of Connecticut and the University of Oklahoma. His research interests include interactions of humans, disasters, and the built environment under climate change; flood-inundation modeling and observatory using hydrological modeling and remote sensing; AI applications in natural hazards and climate change; AI applications in desert biodiversity under climate change; and remote sensing, photogrammetry, and GIS.