The U. V. Helava Award (Best Paper Award), International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2016; 1st Place PhD Best Paper Award, International Conference on Location-based Social Media Data, Athens, Georgia, USA, Mar. 13-14, 2015.
Research Experience
Postdoc training in the GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University, Germany between 2016 and 2018; Planner at the Ministry of Transportation Ontario, Canada from 2016 to 2018.
Education
PhD in Civil Engineering (Geomatics stream) from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada in 2016; Master's degree in Geographical Information Science (GIS) from Peking University and Central South University in 2011; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Beijing University of Chemical and Technology in 2008.
Background
Research interests: at the intersection of GIScience, geography, computer science and computational social science, focusing on using GIS, geospatial big data and new sensing technologies to progress the understanding of the mechanism of the interaction between human activities, urban transportation and social events. Currently a Professor at Tongji University, Adjunct Professor at Ryerson University. Chair of ISPRS WG IV/6 - Human Behaviour and Spatial Interactions, Associate Editor for ISPRS IJGI.
Miscellany
Several openings for postdocs and PhD students in Spatio-temporal AI for urban studies.