Xiao Li

I am Xiao Li, a PhD student in the Department of Geography at Penn State University. My research interests center on cryospheric remote sensing, with a particular focus on the mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. My goal is to advance the understanding of Antarctic ice sheet dynamics by developing methods to assess surface height changes from satellite altimetry, and by applying remote sensing techniques to investigate the surface mass balance, hydrological processes, and climatic drivers that influence the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Before joining Penn State, I worked as a scientific assistant at ETH Zurich, where I focused on displacement retrieval using SAR data (SAOCOM and Sentinel-1) through pixel offset tracking and D-InSAR methods. I earned my master’s degree in Geodesy and Surveying Engineering from Wuhan University, where my primary research involved constructing long-term elevation-change time series for Antarctic ice shelves using altimetric data from CryoSat-2. I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Geomatics from Central South University, where my undergraduate thesis explored soil moisture estimation using GNSS-R remote sensing.