Qiusheng Wu, Ph.D.¶

Associate Professor | Amazon Scholar
Department of Geography & Sustainability, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
309 Burchfiel Geography Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-0925
+1-865-221-8824 | qwu18@utk.edu | gishub.org
Research Interests: Geographic Information Science (GIS), Remote Sensing, Open-source Software Development, Geospatial Data Science, Wetland Hydrology, Cloud Computing
Google Scholar | GitHub | YouTube | ORCID | ResearchGate | Twitter
Highlights¶
h-index: 46, 16 first-author papers
geemap, leafmap, segment-geospatial, geoai, and more
GeoAI, DuckDB, GIS Programming, Earth Engine & Geemap
60K+ subscribers, 153K+ watch hours, 2.8M+ views
10 keynote presentations worldwide
Google Open Source Peer Bonus, GDE for Earth Engine, NASA Early Career
Recent News¶
2025 -- Amazon Scholar appointment
2026 -- UCGIS I-GUIDE Community Champion
2025 -- UT Libraries’ Paul E. Trentham, Sr. Library Partner Award
2026 -- Published GeoAI with Python: A Practical Guide to Open-Source Geospatial AI
2025 -- Published Spatial Data Management with DuckDB and Introduction to GIS Programming