Postdoctoral Research Associate

Biography

Dr. Xinchen He is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he applies data from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to study reservoir backwater patterns. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with research focused on computational hydrology.

Research Interests

  • Satellite remote sensing
  • Numerical modeling
  • Deep learning
  • Limnology

Education

  • Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (2025)
  • B.Eng. in Environmental Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China (2020)