About Tellus
Tellus Consulting, LLC was founded in 2023 and aims to help coastal science/engineering companies and government agency adopt emerging technology, improve efficiency of data analysis and visualization, save project hours, and gain competing advantage. Tellus currently provides service in the following fields.
Software development in data handling, preprocessing, format conversion
Software development in data analysis and visualization
Automate geoprocessing in ArcGIS software with Python programming
Cloud computing
Application of machine learning and data science
President and Principal Scientist
Dr. Dong is an experienced Coastal Engineer (10 years), the first author of Coastal Engineering Resilience Index (CERI), award-winning ArcGIS geoprocessing expert, and geospatial data scientist with a demonstrated history of working in coastal engineering, ArcGIS geoprocessing tools development and geospatial analytics: beach nourishment, numerical modeling of tides, waves and sediment transport, inlet management, coastal resilience, restoration and adaptation, decision-support and analysis toolboxes development with ArcGIS Python programming, LiDAR data processing, and machine learning applications. Dr. Dong has broad experience in working with state and federal agencies such as USACE, EPA, FDEP, GOMA and CPRA. Skilled in ArcGIS, Delft3D, SWAN, SLOSH, USACE software (SBEACH, GENESIS, etc.), Fortran, Matlab, Python, R, machine learning, cloud computing and computer vision. Dr. Dong has strong engineering and software development background with a Ph.D. degree in Ocean Engineering from Center for Applied Coastal Research at University of Delaware and a M.S. degree in Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley.
Education
Ph.D. in Coastal Engineering
Institution: Center for Applied Coastal Research, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711
Dissertation: Wave-Current Interaction in Strongly Sheared Mean Flows
Advisor: James T. Kirby
M.S. in Information and Data Science
Institution: School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
Focus: machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, cloud computing
B.S. in Marine Science
Institution: College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao