About Yu
My research activities have been centered on developing science-based data-driven decision support tools for forestry and natural resource management using techniques in the operations research (OR) and management science realm including systems analysis, spatial optimization, and stochastic programming. I develop and implement OR models to integrate long-term economic, ecological and social considerations in forest and natural resource management. My research helps scientists, land managers, and natural resource professionals to configure long-term forest management plans, schedule vegetation management activities, mitigate fire risk, achieve watershed erosion and sediment control goals, dispatch wildland fire engines and crews for fire suppression, and quantify trade-off between multiple forest and natural resource management objectives. Those systems help improve the transparency and efficiency of natural resource management decision-making processes. I teach classes in quantitative analysis, forest management, GIS and fire economics.
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- Strategic forest management and planning
- Wildland fire risk assessment and management
- Spatially explicit optimization and decision support
- GIS Application
- Machine learning
Education
PhD, Natural Resources (Forestry) - University of Minnesota
Saint Paul/MN, 2004
MS, Computer and Information Science - University of Minnesota
Minneapolis/MN, 2003
MAg, Forest Economics and Management - Beijing Forestry University
Beijing, 1997
BAg, Forest Economics and Management - Hebei Agriculture University
Baoding, 1994