Kunpeng Yi graduated from Northeast Normal University in China in 2010 with an M.Sc. in Physical geography. He obtained a Ph.D. in Remote Sensing from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2014. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as a postdoc at Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is an assistant professor at State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include bird migration, urbanization, wildfire mapping, and monitoring at large spatial scales using satellite data.