Ph.D.: Landscape Ecology-GIS-Remote Sensing. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, P. R. China, 1990. M.S.: Soil Geography and Biogeography, Geosciences Division, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) and the Institute of Applied Ecology (Shenyang) of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China. B.S.: Soil Science, Soil Science Department, Shenyang University of Agriculture, Shenyang, P. R. China.
Associate Professor, Department of Forestry, University of Missouri, 2006 to present。 Adjunct Professor of Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2001 to present。 Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry, University of Missouri, 2000 to 2005. Associate Scientist, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1997 to 1999. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1993 to 1996. Research Assistant Professor, Remote Sensing Application Laboratory, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1991 to 1992.
His research interest is to study landscape response to various natural and social factors over large spatial and temporal domains by linking spatial models with geographic information systems. Projects with both theoretical significance and application potential are among his research priorities. He's research equally emphasizes advances in landscape ecology such as theories of spatial modeling and landscape metrics, and geographic information science such as GIS and remote sensing data integration, GIS interpolation, visualization, and analytical approaches. He has been working with colleagues in developing a spatially explicit forest landscape model (LANDIS) linked with GIS. LANDIS is adapted and used by more than 30 individual groups of research institutions, government agencies, and private industry in the U.S.A., Canada, Finland, Scotland, Switzerland, China and India. More recently, proposals in which the LANDIS model serves as a major simulation tool have been funded by National Science Foundation, USDA and other U.S. and European funding agencies.
Recent Publications：

Central Hardwoods ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Central Hardwoods Climate Change Response Framework project, Brandt, Leslie, He Hong S., Iverson Louis, and Thompson Frank R. , General Technical Report, Number NRS-124, Newtown Square, PA, p.254p, (2014) Abstract RTFTaggedXMLBibTexGoogle Scholar。
Densification and State Transition Across the Missouri Ozarks Landscape, Hanberry, Brice B., Kabrick John M., and He Hong S. , Ecosystems, (2013) Abstract RTFTaggedXMLBibTexGoogle Scholar。
Evaluating functions to describe point patterns, Hanberry, Brice B., Yang Jian, and He Hong S. , Community Ecology, 6/2013, Volume 14, Issue 1, p.1 - 7, (2013) Abstract RTFTaggedXMLBibTexGoogle Scholar。
Winning and Losing Tree Species of Reassembly in Minnesota’s Mixed and Broadleaf Forests, Hanberry, Brice B., Palik Brian J., and He Hong S. , PLoS ONE, 4/2013, Volume 8, Issue 4, p.e61709, (2013) Abstract RTFTaggedXMLBibTexGoogle Scholar。
A large-scale forest landscape model incorporating multi-scale processes and utilizing forest inventory data, Wang, Wen J., He Hong S., Spetich Martin A., Shifley Stephen R., Thompson Frank R., Larsen David R., Fraser Jacob S., and Yang Jian , Ecosphere, 09/2013, Volume 4, Issue 9, p.art106, (2013) Abstract RTFTaggedXMLBibTexGoogle Scholar。