"Improving climate monitoring and impact studies with satellite climate data records, data science, and cloud computing"
                
Dr. Yuhan Rao
North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
North Carolina State University

Dr. Yuhan “Douglas” Rao is a research scientist with the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies at North Carolina State University. Through NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Satellite and Earth System Studies, Dr. Rao is supporting National Centers for Environmental Information and NOAA Center for AI. His research focuses on the development and stewardship of long-term satellite data records for climate monitoring. His recent projects include using machine learning for data fusion and developing cloud-computing-based data access tools for global vegetation monitoring with NOAA climate data records.
He received his Ph.D. in Geographical Sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park.