华人科学家管开宇获2026年麦克阿瑟奖 用卫星与模型预测农田收成与环境变化
麦克阿瑟基金会9月29日公布2026年麦克阿瑟奖（MacArthur Fellowship）20人名单，伊利诺伊大学 Urbana-Champaign 华人科学家管开宇入选，将获80万美元奖金，分五年发放、不附带使用条件。该奖有「天才奖」之称，表彰在各自领域展现原创性与持续影响力的人士。管开宇今年41岁，本届20名获奖者中另有华人学者张良方与林松。
管开宇现任伊利诺伊大学 Urbana-Champaign 自然资源与环境科学系 Levenick 讲席教授，是该校农业生态系统可持续中心（Agroecosystem Sustainability Center）创办主任，并担任 NASA Acres 联盟首席科学家。他2013年在普林斯顿大学取得博士学位。
基金会的表彰理由称，管开宇「整合地球观测、过程模型与机器学习，理解并预测作物、环境与人类农业实践在农业景观中的相互作用」。他领衔开发的 STAIR 卫星数据融合方法，能生成亚田块尺度的每日地表影像，让研究者与农业从业者近乎实时地监测作物长势、估算产量并评估干旱等环境压力。
据普林斯顿大学报道，管开宇对获奖表示荣幸，并表示农业生产力与可持续发展不必是对立的目标——他的团队希望用数据同时服务于粮食生产与环境保护。NASA Acres 联盟称，其研究正被用于改进美国主要农业区的作物监测与产量预测。
Chinese American Scientist Kaiyu Guan Wins 2026 MacArthur Fellowship for Satellite-Based Agroecosystem Research
The MacArthur Foundation on September 29 named Kaiyu Guan, a Chinese American scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, among the 20 fellows of its 2026 MacArthur Fellowship class. The award, often called the "genius grant," carries $800,000 paid over five years with no strings attached. Guan, 41, joins fellow Chinese American scholars Liangfang Zhang and Song Lin in this year's class.
Guan is the Levenick Endowed Chair in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at Urbana-Champaign, founding director of the university's Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, and chief scientist of the NASA Acres consortium. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2013.
The foundation cited Guan for "integrating Earth observations, process-based modeling, and machine learning to understand and predict interactions among crops, the environment, and human agricultural practices across agricultural landscapes." His STAIR satellite data-fusion method produces daily imagery at sub-field resolution, allowing near-real-time monitoring of crop conditions, yield estimation, and environmental stresses such as drought.
According to Princeton University, Guan said he was honored by the award and that agricultural productivity and sustainability do not have to be opposing goals. NASA Acres says his research is being used to improve crop monitoring and yield forecasting across major U.S. farming regions.
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图片来源：伊利诺伊大学 Urbana-Champaign 的 Foellinger 礼堂（管开宇任职大学的标志性建筑，资料图） / Foellinger Auditorium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where Kaiyu Guan teaches (file photo). Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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