Zhang Hanwen

An undergraduate student in the 2023 cohort of the Geography programme at the School of Geography and Ocean Sciences, Yanbian University. Zhang has a GPA of 4.15/4.50 and has ranked first in the major for three consecutive years. Zhang received the Jilin Provincial Government Scholarship and the Pu Jie Scholarship, and was named a “Merit Student” and an “Outstanding Communist Youth League Member” at Yanbian University.

Received a recommendation for direct-entry PhD admission without an entrance examination in September 2026, with enrolment scheduled for September 2027.

Combines Landsat 5–9 and Sentinel-2 imagery with explainable machine learning to study fine-grained spectral classification of river ice on the Tibetan Plateau. The first-author paper was published in Remote Sensing (2026).

Publications and books

1. Hanwen Zhang, Hongyi Li*. (2026). Optical River Ice Spectral Subclassification on the Tibetan Plateau: A Landsat 5–9 and Sentinel-2 Benchmark with Interpretable Machine Learning. Remote Sensing, 18(9), 1437. Data DOI