Jia Hu is a Postdoc Research Associate at the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, where she has been employed since October 2023. Previously, she was a visiting Ph.D. Student in the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences at Iowa State University from August 2021 to August 2023. She received her Ph.D. from Hohai University in September 2023. Her research interests include urban environment, urban climate, urban heat islands, extreme heat, and land use mapping. Her research focuses on quantifying the spatiotemporal patterns of environmental change and modeling the underlying physical mechanisms. She investigates the driving forces and impacts of climate change on urban residents through geospatial technologies, including remote sensing, GIS, and climate modeling. She has served as a reviewer for over 15 peer-reviewed journals, including Remote Sensing of Environment, Sustainable Cities and Society, International Journal of Digital Earth, Urban Climate, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Cities, and City and Environment Interactions.