Songlin Fei, Dean’s Chair Professor of Remote Sensing and Director of the Institute for Digital Forestry, is a quantitative ecologist specializing in forest ecology, invasion ecology, and geospatial analytics at Purdue University. Dr. Fei’s forest ecology work includes impacts of climate change on forest dynamic and biodiversity-ecosystem function. Dr. Fei is also leading the integrated digital forestry initiative, which aims to revolutionize forestry from labor intensive, manual methods to an effective, precise, digital system by testing and adopting existing digital tools and by developing new tools, algorithms, and platforms for precision forest management and for public health improvement and mitigation.
