Dr. SUN Zhangyu Joe

Dr. SUN Zhangyu Joe 孫章宇

Postdoctoral Fellow (Honorary)
Supervisor: Prof. LIU Lin

Room 308, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building
Dr. SUN Zhangyu Joe

Education

2021 - 2025 Ph.D. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2018 - 2021 M.Sc. Geodesy and Geomatics Wuhan University
2019 - 2020 M.Sc. Earth Oriented Space Science and Technology Technical University of Munich
2014 - 2018 B.Sc. Navigation Engineering Wuhan University

Academic Employments

2025 - present Postdoctoral Fellow (Honorary), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Fields and Current Research Interests

  • Cryosphere remote sensing
  • Rock glacier
  • Artificial intelligence in geoscience applications

Representative Publications

2025 Zhangyu Sun, Lin Liu, Chengyan Fan, Yan Hu, Francesca Baldacchino, Atanu Bhattacharya, Ella Wood, and Tobias Bolch (2025). Unveiling large-scale velocity characteristics of rock glaciers in the Tibet-Pamir-Karakoram region using InSAR. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 142, 104733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104733.
2024 Zhangyu Sun, Yan Hu, Adina Racoviteanu, Lin Liu, Stephan Harrison, Xiaowen Wang, Jiaxin Cai, Xin Guo, Yujun He, and Hailun Yuan (2024). TPRoGI: A comprehensive rock glacier inventory for the Tibetan Plateau using deep learning. Earth System Science Data, 16(12), 5703–5721. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-5703-2024.

Honours and Awards

2023 Ernst Mach Grant, weltweit, Austria
2021 Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, Hong Kong

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