{"id":24263,"date":"2025-09-23T11:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/?post_type=person&#038;p=24263"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:40:19","slug":"paul-liu","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/people\/paul-liu\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul uses<\/strong> <strong>geospatial analytics<\/strong> to study the spatial and temporal evolution of coastal environmental change, focusing on shoreline dynamics in the world\u2019s major river deltas shaped by human activities. By combining field data with large language-based visual models, <strong>he develops<\/strong> <strong>AI-powered algorithms and modeling approaches<\/strong> that reconstruct historical change patterns and forecast delta evolution 5, 10, 20, and 30 years into the future.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24276\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24276\" src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/09\/Paul_Liu_graphic-300x144.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/09\/Paul_Liu_graphic-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/09\/Paul_Liu_graphic-1024x490.png 1024w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/09\/Paul_Liu_graphic-1536x735.png 1536w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/09\/Paul_Liu_graphic-2048x980.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Liu on a research cruise off the Irrawaddy River Delta, Myanmar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":24266,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"group":[16],"person_tag":[],"class_list":["post-24263","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","group-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/24263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/24263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24277,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/24263\/revisions\/24277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=24263"},{"taxonomy":"person_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_tag?post=24263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}