2024 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Fellow; 2023 Web of Science Top 1% Global Highly Cited Researchers List (Social Sciences); 2023 Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List (by Stanford University); 2023 UW-Madison H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship; 2022 Web of Science Top 1% Global Highly Cited Researchers List (Social Sciences); 2022 Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List (by Stanford University); 2022 UCGIS Early/Mid-Career Research Award, etc.
Research Experience
Associate Professor (H.I. Romnes Fellow & AAG Fellow) and Director of the Geospatial Data Science Lab at the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Courses taught include Introduction to Geocomputing (with Python programming), Advanced Quantitative Analysis in Geography (with R programming), Advanced Geocomputing & Geospatial Big Data Analytics (with Python programming), Seminar in Geographic Information Science, and Seminar in Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI).
Education
2012-2017: Ph.D. in GIScience, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; 2009-2012: M.S. in Cartography and GIS, Peking University, China; 2005-2009: B.S. Honors in Geography, Beijing Normal University, China.
Background
Research areas include GIScience, GeoAI, Geospatial Data Science, Human Mobility, Social Sensing, Spatial Networks, and Urban Informatics.
Miscellany
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Computer Sciences; Affiliate Faculty, Data Science Institute.