Yinghui Zhao is a professor at the Department of Forest Management, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University (NEFU), P.R. China. Her undergraduate was major in forestry at NEFU. She pursued her MS and Ph.D. degrees in forest management at NEFU. She was a visiting scholar at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) from October 2017 to October 2018. From 2006 to the present, she has worked for NEFU and is responsible for three undergraduate courses, one graduate course, and one Ph.D. course. She has also published more than 30 papers and one textbook. She has managed 13 projects as a PI and participated in more than ten projects. She won three scientific research awards and seven teaching quality awards. Her current research interest includes forestry remote sensing and GIS, and digital forestry.