博士、硕士生导师
Email: caoyq@ntu.edu.cn
学历及学术经历：
曹越前，江苏南通人，2014年获兰州大学理学学士学位（导师：张武教授），2022年获美国杜克大学博士学位（导师：美国国家工程院院士Ana P. Barros）。2014年受国家留学基金委资助在英国雷丁大学公派交流，2021年至2022年在美国伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校担任访问学者。
主要从事人工智能算法、微波遥感、交通气象、积雪观测模拟等方面的研究工作，深度参与了NASA SnowEx、Terrestrial Hydrology Program等计划。现主持/联合主持英国皇家学会（Royal Society）国际交流项目、国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目、全国重点实验室开放基金项目。已在Remote Sensing of Environment、Transportation Research Part D等SCI期刊发表论文十余篇。已和北京大学、中国科学技术大学、北京师范大学、美国杜克大学、英国诺桑比亚大学、韩国延世大学等国内外单位建立了紧密合作关系。
获江苏省“双创博士”、美国杜克大学“会议旅行奖”、美国水文科学促进大学联盟旅行资助、国家留学基金委“优秀本科生国际交流项目奖学金”等奖励。受邀担任Information Fusion、Cities、Renewable Energy、Applied Energy、Agricultural and Forest Meteorology等十余家国际著名SCI期刊审稿人。
主讲本科生课程《专业写作》、《人工智能导论》，研究生课程《机器学习》。指导本科生、研究生发表第一作者SCI论文多篇、获美国大学生数学建模竞赛H奖等奖项。
欢迎具有计算机科学与技术、电子信息、遥感科学与技术、地理信息科学、交通工程、通信工程等专业背景的同学报考！
科研项目：
2025/2 – 2027/1, Future Visions of White: Machine Learning Insights into Snow Stratigraphy in a Changing Climate, Royal Society International Exchanges 2024 (242442), Co-PI
2024/1 – 2026/12，气象、地形因子对多层积雪后向散射信号的影响研究，国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目（42301428），主持
2023/8 – 2025/7，深度学习对高分辨率遥感雪深产品的动力-统计降尺度研究，遥感与数字地球全国重点实验室开放基金项目（OFSLRSS202306），主持
2017/5 – 2023/5, Next Generation Cold Land Processes Experiment – Mapping and Elucidating the Microwave Signatures of Transient and Heterogeneous Snowpack Microphysics and Their Space-Time Scaling Behavior Using Observations and Models, NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program (NNX17AL44G), Participant
学术论文：
Chen, Z., Yang, B., Sandells, M., Wang, Q., Jiang, L., & Cao, Y*. (2025). KAN-and CNN-Driven Snow Stratigraphy Retrieval Across Antarctic and Subarctic Environments. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 18, 29354-29365.
Xu, L., Xu, B., Sun, Y., & Cao, Y*. (2025). Interpretable and scalable deep learning for urban NO2 prediction via multisource data. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 149, 105039.
Cao, Y., Liang, Z., Che, M., Luo, J., Sun, Y. (2025). Advanced Deep Learning Networks for CO2 Trapping Analysis in Geological Reservoirs. Sustainability, 17(16), 7359.
Ji, Y., Zhang, X., & Cao, Y*. (2025). Urban Air Quality Shifts in China: Application of Additive Model and Transfer Learning to Major Cities. Toxics, 13(5), 334.
Cao, Y., & Jiang, L. (2025). Power Spectra’s Perspective on Meteorological Drivers of Snow Depth Multiscale Behavior over the Tibetan Plateau. Land, 14(4), 790.
Cao, Y., & Barros, A. P. (2023). Indirect Estimation of Vegetation Contribution to Microwave Backscatter Via Triple-Frequency SAR Data. InIGARSS 2023-2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium(pp. 3114-3117). IEEE.
Cao, Y., & Barros, A. P. (2023). Topographic Controls on Hydrology and Microwave Behavior of Seasonal Snowpacks.Remote Sensing of Environment,284, 113373.
Cao, Y., & Barros, A. P. (2022). High-Resolution Forward Modeling of Sentinel-1 Observations at High Altitude in Complex Topography. InIGARSS 2022-2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium(pp. 6833-6835). IEEE.
Kim, R. S., Kumar, S., Vuyovich, C., Houser, P., Lundquist, J., Mudryk, L., Durand, M., Barros, A., Kim, E. J., Forman, B. A., Gutmann, E. D., Wrzesien, M. L., Garnaud, C., Sandells, M., Marshall, H.-P., Cristea, N., Pflug, J. M., Johnston, J., Cao, Y., Mocko, D., and Wang, S. (2021). Snow Ensemble Uncertainty Project (SEUP): quantification of snow water equivalent uncertainty across North America via ensemble land surface modeling. The Cryosphere,15(2), 771-791.
Wang, X., Alvarez, M., Donohue, K., Ge, W., Cao, Y., Liu, K., ... & Bu, H. (2021). Elevation filters seed traits and germination strategies in the eastern Tibetan Plateau.Ecography,44(2), 242-254.
Cao, Y., & Barros, A. P. (2020). Weather-Dependent Nonlinear Microwave Behavior of Seasonal High-Elevation Snowpacks.Remote Sensing,12(20), 3422.
Cao, Y., Zhang, W., & Wang, W. (2018). Evaluation of TRMM 3B43 data over the Yangtze River Delta of China. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 5290.
Cao, Y., Zhang, W., & Wang, W. (2018). Spatial-temporal characteristics of haze and vertical distribution of aerosols over the Yangtze River Delta of China. Journal of environmental sciences, 66, 12-19.
曹越前，张武，药静宇，王暐. 半干旱区云量变化特征及其与太阳辐射关系的研究 [J]. 干旱气象, 2015, 33(4): 684-693.