Biography

Dr. Xiao Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. His research spans human–environment interaction, computational social science, urban informatics, disaster mapping and mitigation, GeoAI, and remote sensing. He has over 7,000 Google Scholar citations, authored more than 270 peer-reviewed journal articles and 20+ book chapters, and edited five books. Dr. Huang is recognized as a World's Top 2% Scientist by Stanford/Elsevier. He serves as Associate Editor for Computational Urban Science and the Journal of Remote Sensing, and sits on the editorial boards of multiple leading journals. His work has been featured by Nature News, NASA, NBC, and Fox, and supported by NSF, NASA, the Gates Foundation, the National Academies, and CMS.