Rate My Professor Jianxiu Shen

Dr. Jianxiu (Jenny) Shen serves as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Murdoch University in the School of Engineering and Energy, with her appointment running from August 2021 to April 2026, and as a Senior Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) in Western Australia since November 2022. Prior to these roles, she was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Big Data in Agriculture at Murdoch University from July 2019 to August 2021. Shen holds a PhD in Environmental Science specializing in agricultural remote sensing from the University of Technology Sydney, an MSc in physical geography focusing on land use and cover change from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a BSc in land resource management from China Agricultural University. Her research centers on big data applications in agriculture, encompassing remote sensing, spatiotemporal analytics, machine learning, vegetation phenology modeling, crop yield estimation, climate adaptation strategies, eco-risk assessment in agroforestry systems, and land sector carbon stock modeling and mapping.

Shen has authored several influential publications, including 'Long-Term Hindcasts of Wheat Yield in Fields Using Remotely Sensed Phenology, Climate Data and Machine Learning' (2021, with F.H. Evans), 'The Potential of Landsat NDVI Sequences to Explain Wheat Yield Variation in Fields in Western Australia' (2021), 'Spatially Weighted Estimation of Broadacre Crop Growth Improves Gap-Filling of Landsat NDVI' (2021), 'Empirical Combination of Landsat 7 and 8 Imagery to Detect the Phenological Changes in Rainfed Cropland Vegetation' (2020), and 'Toward Resilience in Broadacre Agriculture: A Methodological Review of Remote Sensing in Crop Phenology and Yield Prediction' (2025). She has secured multiple competitive research grants and was awarded the Australian Climate and Water Research Fellowship, contributing significantly to agricultural resilience and climate adaptation initiatives in broadacre farming systems, particularly in Western Australia. Her scholarly output has accumulated over 300 citations.