Weizhen Hou

Weizhen Hou received the B.S. and M.S. degree from the Shandong University of Science and Technology at Tai’an in 2004 and at Qingdao in 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) at Beijing in 2011. Since 2011, he was a Research Assistant and then an Associate Professor with the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, CAS. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2017, he joined the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, the University of Iowa, as a Post-Doctoral Research Scholar. From 2019, he is an Associate Professor in Aerospace Information Research Institute, CAS. His research interests include polarimetric remote sensing, hyperspectral remote sensing, and optimal-estimation inversion.

He has been in charge of 2 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and published corresponding papers in journals including RSE, JGR-A, JQSRT, JARS and RS. His awards and honors include the Chinese Second Prize of Environmental Protection Science and Technology in 2020, the Second Prize of Beijing Natural Science in 2020, the Best Poster Award of the ISPRS Workshop on Remote Sensing and Synergic Analysis on Atmospheric Environment in 2019, the Prize for the Best Poster of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Technical Commission III Symposium in 2018, and the Outstanding Paper Award of Chinese Society for Optical Engineering in 2018.