# Hang Z.

> Engineer@Alchemy

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hangz

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Alchemy
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
building data foundation for web3

### Staff Research Scientist @ paii
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
* Build an on-prem geospatial data lake with associated pipelines, supporting major remote sensing, climate, weather, hydrology, and agriculture data
* Design and develop AI/ML algorithms for geospatial and remote sensing data correction and fusion
* Design and develop AI/ML algorithms utilizing geospatial/remote-sensing data for agriculture insurance, yield forecasting, carbon emission quantification, and natural carbon sequestration estimation.

### Senior Research Scientist @ paii
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Data Engineer, Applied Scientist @ Descartes Labs
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Santa Fe, New Mexico Area
- lead the design, development, and maintenance of a data lake, ingesting, managing, and serving all major public and commercial remote sensing, weather/climate, geospatial, and location data
- develop a wide variety of proof-of-concept projects utilizing geospatial and remote sensing data, for agriculture, forestry, disaster, environment monitoring, and more

### Postdoctoral Research Associate @ University of Idaho
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
•	Investigate climate, snow cover, glacier changes in Central Asia
•	Develop hydrological models for Central Asia and analyze changes of regional water resources

### Visiting Scholar @ Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
•	Construct a physical based hydrological model for a representative watershed in western United States
•	Develop a novel tree mortality submodule for the global land surface model CESM4

### Graduate Student Research Assistant @ Univesity of Idaho
Jan 2009 – Jan 2016 | Moscow, Idaho, USA
1. Snow cover monitoring, analysis, and modeling in High Asia with Remote Sensing and GIS techniques
2. Analysis and modeling of glacier extent and volume changes in Altai, Tienshan, and Pamir regions using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques
3. Hydrological modeling in Pamir
4. Develop and maintain the Asiacryoweb.org website for sharing data and knowledge in research community

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Idaho
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Moscow, Idaho, USA
•	Teach lab sessions for undergraduate course GIS Primer
•	Teach lab sessions for undergraduate / graduate co-listed course Intermediate GIS

### Graduate Student Research Assistant @ Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009
1. Analysis of glacier change in Tibetan Plateau with Remote Sensing and GIS techniques
2. Hydrological modeling in Southeastern Tibet
3. Field work of glacier monitoring in Northeastern and Southern Tibetan Plateau

### Student Research Assistant @ Peking University
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
1. Develop and manage the website with php, mysql and ldap, for the Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University
2. Process high resolution satellite images in Qingdao, China
3. Participate in developing the first slope database for the city of Shenzhan, China, main developer for the database access layer, database query interface and the user management subsystem


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Cryopshere, Hydrology and Climate Change in Central Asia, Remote Sensing, GIS, Spatial Analysis
University of Idaho

### Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Cryosphere, Remote Sensing, GIS
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

### Bachelor's degree in Remote Sensing, GIS, Geography
Peking University

### Alchemy University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hang-joey-zhou

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Last updated: 2026-04-11