👋 About Me
I am currently a University Research Committee Postdoctoral Fellow in the Jockey Club STEM Laboratory of Quantitative Remote Sensing (JCLabQRS) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), working with Prof. Shunlin Liang (梁顺林) (IEEE Fellow). Previously, I was a Presidential Postdoctoral Researcher at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), where I received my Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Ran Tao (陶然) and Prof. Wei Li (李伟).
My research interests include Remote Sensing Foundation Models, Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning, Domain Adaptation/Generalization, and Generative Models, with applications to hyperspectral image classification, semantic segmentation, change detection, and time-series image restoration.
🔥 News
- 2026.06: LiteMFT is accepted by IEEE TIP (IF = 15.3).
- 2026.06: SpectralX is accepted by ISPRS (IF = 12.9).
- 2026.05: Released UniTS, a unified generative model for remote sensing time series.
- 2025.07: BiDA is accepted by IEEE TCSVT (IF = 11.1).
- 2025.03: Selected for the 2024 CIE Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award Program （2024年度中国电子学会博士学位论文激励计划）.
- 2025.02: Joined The University of Hong Kong as a URC Postdoctoral Fellow （香港大学研究委员会博士后研究员）.
- 2024.05: Awarded the Xu Teli Scholarship, Beijing Institute of Technology （北京理工大学徐特立奖学金，10人）.
📝 Publications
My research lies at the intersection of machine learning and Earth observation, with a particular focus on Generative Earth Observation, Remote Sensing Foundation Models, and Cross-Domain Interpretation.
My full publication list is available on Google Scholar 2,289 citations. Some selected papers are listed below.
Generative AI & Remote Sensing Foundation Models
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), under review, 2026
Yuxiang Zhang, Shunlin Liang, Wenyuan Li, Han Ma, Jianglei Xu, Yichuan Ma, Jiangwei Xie, Wei Li, Mengmeng Zhang, Ran Tao, and Xiang-Gen Xia
[PDF] [Project Page] [Code] [Datasets] [] [WeChat tweets | 港大、北理等提出UniTS：一个模型统一四大遥感时间序列任务，性能全面领先] [Citations: 14]
Remote Sensing of Environment (RSE), under review, 2026
Yuxiang Zhang, Shunlin Liang, Han Ma, Wenyuan Li, Yichuan Ma, Jianglei Xu, Shikang Guan, He Wang, Mengmeng Zhang, Ran Tao, and Wei Li
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), IF=12.9, 2026
Yuxiang Zhang, Wei Li, Mengmeng Zhang, Jiawei Han, Ran Tao, and Shunlin Liang
[PDF] [Code] [Datasets] [WeChat tweets | 让光学基础模型看懂光谱世界！] [Citations: 49]
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IF=15.3, 2026
Chengwang Guo†, Yuxiang Zhang†, Mengmeng Zhang, Huan Liu, and Wei Li
† Equal contribution
[PDF] [Citations: 0]
Cross-Domain Remote Sensing Interpretation
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IF=11.1, 2025
Yuxiang Zhang, Wei Li, Wen Jia, Mengmeng Zhang, Ran Tao, and Shunlin Liang
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [Datasets] [Citations: 67]
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), IF=9.4, 2024
Mengmeng Zhang, Chengwang Guo, Yuxiang Zhang*, Huan Liu, and Wei Li
* Corresponding author
[PDF] [Citations: 9]
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IF=15.3, 2023
🏆 ESI Highly Cited Paper, 🔥 ESI Hot Paper
Yuxiang Zhang, Wei Li, Weidong Sun, Ran Tao, and Qian Du
[PDF] [Code] [Citations: 358]
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), IF=10.5, 2022
🏆 ESI Highly Cited Paper
Yuxiang Zhang, Wei Li, Mengmeng Zhang, Shuai Wang, Ran Tao, and Qian Du
[PDF] [Code] [Citations: 367]
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), IF=9.4, 2023
🏆 ESI Highly Cited Paper
Yuxiang Zhang, Mengmeng Zhang, Wei Li, Shuai Wang, and Ran Tao
[PDF] [Code] [Citations: 235]
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), IF=10.5, 2021
🏆 ESI Highly Cited Paper
Yuxiang Zhang, Wei Li, Mengmeng Zhang, Ying Qu, Ran Tao, and Hairong Qi
[PDF] [Code] [Citations: 330]
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), IF=9.4, 2021
🏆 ESI Highly Cited Paper
Yuxiang Zhang, Wei Li, Ran Tao, Jiangtao Peng, Qian Du, and Zhaoquan Cai
[PDF] [Citations: 144]
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), IF=9.4, 2020
Yuxiang Zhang, Wei Li, Heng-Chao Li, Ran Tao, and Qian Du
[PDF] [Citations: 37]
🏆 Selected Honors
- 2025.03: 2024 CIE Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award Program, China Institute of Electronics （2024年度中国电子学会博士学位论文激励计划）.
- 2025.02: University Research Committee Postdoctoral Fellowship (48th Round), The University of Hong Kong （香港大学研究委员会博士后研究员，第48轮）.
- 2024.05: Xu Teli Scholarship, Beijing Institute of Technology （北京理工大学徐特立奖学金，10人）.
- 2023.12: Best Paper Award (Top 2%), 19th Young Scientists Conference of CSIG （第十九届中国图象图形学学会青年科学家会议最佳论文奖，前 2%）.
- 2023.11: Best Beyond Fellow Scholarship, AI4EO Future Lab, Technical University of Munich （慕尼黑工业大学 AI4EO Future Lab “Best Beyond Fellow”奖学金）.
- 2023.10: National Scholarship for Doctoral Candidates (ranked 1/11) （博士研究生国家奖学金，排名1/11）.
- 2022.11: First Prize, CASC Scholarship, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation （中国航天科技 CASC 奖学金一等奖）.
- 2022.11: First Prize, Journal of Image and Graphics Forum （中国图象图形学报论坛一等奖）.
📖 Education
- 2020.09 – 2024.06, Ph.D. in Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China.
- 2017.09 – 2020.06, M.S. in Control Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China.
- 2013.09 – 2017.06, B.S. in Electronic Information Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China.