Short Bio¶
Dr. Qiusheng Wu is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He also serves as an Amazon Visiting Academic. Dr. Wu specializes in geospatial data science and open-source software development, with a research focus on utilizing big geospatial data and cloud computing to study environmental changes, particularly in surface water and wetland inundation dynamics. He is the creator of several widely used open-source Python packages, including geemap, leafmap, and segment-geospatial, which are designed for advanced geospatial analysis and visualization. Explore his open-source contributions on GitHub at https://
Appointments¶
- 2024–present Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Geography & Sustainability, UTK
- 2023–present Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Sustainability, UTK
- 2022–present Amazon Visiting Academic
- 2022–present Director of TennesseeView, a Tennessee Remote Sensing Consortium
- 2023–2024 Senior Research Fellow, United Nations University (UNU-INWEH)
- 2021–2024 Associate Graduate Director, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee
- 2019–2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Sustainability, UTK
- 2018–2019 Graduate Director, Department of Geography, Binghamton University (SUNY)
- 2015–2019 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Education¶
- Ph.D. in Geography (2015). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- M.A. in Geography (2011). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- B.S. in Geographic Information System (GIS) (2007). Sun Yat-sen University, China