Yuekai HU
Yuekai Hu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (SKLEC), East China Normal University (ECNU). His research investigates the evolution of coastal wetlands through spatiotemporal data and multi-source Earth observations, with a particular focus on salt marshes, tidal flats, shorelines, and mangrove ecosystems.
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Education
Ph.D. in Physical Geography
State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University
Shanghai, China · September 2019–December 2025
B.Sc. in Geographic Information Science
College of Science, Hangzhou Normal University
Hangzhou, China · September 2014–July 2019
Research Interests
- Coastal ecosystem remote sensing and GeoAI
- Long-term coastal ecosystem mapping
- Wetland evolution, restoration, and ecological assessment
- Spartina alterniflora dynamics and monitoring
- Multi-source satellite time series and intelligent mapping
Academic Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University
Shanghai, China · January 2026–Present
Visiting Scholar
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology
Delft, the Netherlands · February 2025–August 2025
Selected Research
My recent work covers national-scale salt-marsh and tidal-flat mapping, long-term ecological assessment of protected wetlands, interpretable GeoAI for fine-scale coastal targets, and multi-source Earth observation for environmental and socioeconomic applications. See the Research page for project summaries and the Publications page for the full selected list.