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Availability to Accept New PhD Students:
This faculty member is NOT currently accepting Ph.D. studentsSergii Skakun
Associate Professorskakun@umd.edu
301-614-5084
https://geog.umd.edu/facultyprofile/skakun/sergii
Sergii Skakun received the M.S. degree (Hons.) in applied mathematics from the Physics and Technology Institute, NTUU “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute,” Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, in 2005. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geographical Sciences and College of Information Studies (iSchool), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, and a Research Scientist at Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD. His research interests are in advancing methods, models and emerging technologies in the area of data science for heterogeneous remote sensing data fusion, processing and analysis, and their applications to the areas of societal benefit. Dr. Skakun is an Associate Editor of the Remote Sensing of Environment.
Research & Focus Areas
- Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization
- Machine Learning, AI, Computational Linguistics, and Information Retrieval
Research Projects
- Detecting and Mapping War-induced Damage to Agricultural Fields in Ukraine using Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Data
- FAI: Advancing Deep Learning Towards Spatial Fairness
- Revolutionizing Space-Based ISR through Decentralized Systems & In-Orbit ML Computing for Near-Real-Time Intelligence
- Agricultural Land Use Change in Central and Northwest Thailand: Effects on Biomass Emissions, Soil Quality, and Rural Livelihoods
- Coupled Statistics-Physics Guided Learning to Harness Hetergeneous Earth Data at Large Scales
- Crop Yield Assessment and Mapping by a Combined use of Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 Images
- Earth Observation for National Agricultural Monitoring
- Long Term Multi-Instruments Land Surface Reflectance Record and Applications