Rate My Professor Xiaoli Deng

Associate Professor Xiaoli Deng serves as Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Engineering (Surveying) at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She obtained her PhD in Geodesy from Curtin University in 2004, specializing in the improvement of geodetic parameter estimation in coastal regions from satellite radar altimetry. Previously, she was Associate Professor in Geo-science and Surveying Engineering at Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, China, from 1996 to 1999. Since joining the University of Newcastle around 2003, she has undertaken numerous roles, including Faculty Board Member (2003-2007 and 2014-2016), Research Seminars Coordinator (2003-2004), Discipline Newsletter Editor (2005-2016), University Representative to Institution of Surveyors NSW Hunter Mining Group (2005-2019), Industrial Experience Coordinator for Surveying (since 2016), and School of Engineering Committee Representative (since 2020). She holds prestigious positions such as Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), Australian National Representative to IAG for the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (appointed 2019), and Chair of Satellite Altimetry in the IAG Gravity Commission. She has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at Taiwan National Chiao Tung University in 2003 and 2004, and serves on the Editorial Board of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters since 2014.