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Dr. He Yin
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I am an Associate Professor at Kent State University and founder of the SensLand Lab. My research integrates remote sensing, geospatial AI, and land-system science to support sustainable and equitable land use. I received NASA’s Early Career Investigator Award (2021) and ESA’s Earth Observation Excellence Team Award (2025), and I advise UN agencies on environmental resilience.
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Julina is a Postdoctoral Researcher with a PhD in Computer Science and a strong academic background in deep learning and natural language processing. She has been involved in projects that aim to decode the concepts of DL/NLP to understand how machines learn to understand human language. Her research journey has led her to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, publish impactful papers, and contribute to advancing knowledge in her area of expertise.
When she is not researching, you’ll often find her reconnecting with nature or staying energized through fitness activities; she believes in balancing intellectual curiosity with personal well-being. |
Corrine's research focuses on applying remote sensing and spatial analysis to landscapes of the past in order to better understand both natural and anthropogenic processes. Her dissertation work involves mining legacy data from the Landsat and Hexagon satellite programs to track the development of irrigation networks in Cambodia during the time of the Khmer Rouge. Previous studies explored the utility of geostatistical techniques to a Terminal Classic Maya site at the household scale.
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Hobbies: obsessively gardening, knitting, practicing martial arts.
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Hobbies: Travelling; Biking; Running; Photography
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Syed's research focuses on remote sensing, geospatial analysis, and deep learning applications to better understand human–environment interactions. He works with very-high-resolution satellite imagery and computer vision techniques to address real-world challenges such as humanitarian mapping. His current research investigates the detection of individual dwellings in refugee camps using deep learning models applied to very high resolution satellite imagery. Prior coming to Kent State he was a member of GIS and Remote sensing Lab, BSMRAU. He obtained his MS degree in Agroforestry and Environment with a major focus in GIS and Remote Sensing from B.S.M.R. Agricultural University.
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Esmaeel is a PhD candidate at Kent state university. His growing research interest revolves around the use of remote sensing and geospatial analyses to study human-environment interaction. His current focus is on land use and land cover change dynamics in conflict context, particularly the effects of the war in Syria on crop lands changes in the region. He has a Msc in geospatial analyses from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and a Bsc. in Civil/Geotechnical engineering from Tishreen University, Syria.
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Hobbies: Hiking, Outdoor, Cooking, Writing and Coding.
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Hobbies: Travelling, makeup and Skincare, Formula 1 racing.
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Ola is a PhD candidate at Kent State University. Her interests revolve around environmental monitoring and human-environment relations, using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Specifically, she is interested in studying land use and land cover changes, their drivers, and their impacts in the contexts of armed conflict, agriculture and forestry. Currently, her research is concentrated on cropland dynamics in West Africa. She finished her M.Sc.Eng in Geodesy and Cartography, specializing in photogrammetry, remote sensing and GIS from Warsaw University of Technology, and Military University of Technology, Poland.
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Jesse is a Master student focusing on the Syrian Civil War. He obtained his BSc. in Environmental Science from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Currently, he is working on utilizing remote sensing, spatial analysis techniques, and interviews to examine how farmers are impacted and adapting to ongoing conflicts. Prior to his arrival at the lab, Jesse has worked on examining land and forest cover changes using machine learning with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
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Hobbies: Hiking, Fencing, and Enjoying games with friends.
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Luke is a Master student in Geographic Information Science at Kent State. He obtained a BSc in Computer Engineering at the University of Akron with a minor in Computer Science. He brings five years on experience in the tech industry to the lab and assists researchers in matters involving Linux, software development, geospatial programming, and general IT. His interests of study include developing geospatial software, remote sensing, open geospatial data, and how GIS can be applied to humanitarian and environmental problems.
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I’m an Environmental Studies undergrad working on the Two‑Eyed Seeing Project through Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE), using remote sensing to track land‑use change on reclaimed California territories for the LandBack initiative. Previously, I worked in the Computational Ecology Lab on machine‑learning models that identify insects from game‑camera images.
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Hobbies: Hiking, Reading, Crosswords, and Cooking
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Oliver is an undergrad student at Kent State, double majoring in Geography and Business Analytics. He has previously worked with another member of the lab on irrigation mapping in the Levant, and is currently working on the NSF-funded collaborative research project on mapping invasive pine species and wildfire risk in Puerto Rico. His interests include GIS, data analytics, and remote sensing.
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Lab Alumni
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