Kaiwei Luo

Kaiwei Luo is an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Appalachian Laboratory. His research focuses on the full wildfire lifecycle, linking pre-fire vegetation stress and vulnerability, active-fire behavior and dynamics, and post-fire severity, ecological impacts, regeneration, and recovery. His long-term goal is to develop an observation-constrained framework that integrates these processes to improve wildfire risk and resilience assessments under changing fire–vegetation–climate interactions and to support fire management and climate adaptation through AI-enabled modeling and simulation.