CV
Education
- Ph.D. in Geography, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024
- M.S. in Geography, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021
- B.E. in Computer Engineering, University of Hong Kong, 2018
Academic Appointment
- 2024 - present: Assistant Professor
- Department of Geography, Virginia Tech
- 2018 - 2024: Research/Teaching Assistant
- Department of Geography and GIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Advisor: Dr. Shaowen Wang
- 2017: Research Assistant
- Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong
Publications
[3] Rapidly measuring spatial accessibility of COVID-19 healthcare resources: a case study of Illinois, USA
[9] Spatiotemporal assessments of nutrients and water quality in coastal areas using remote sensing and a spatiotemporal deep learning model
[10] An Integrated CyberGIS and Machine Learning Framework for Fine‐Scale Prediction of Urban Heat Island Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Urban Sensor Network Data
[11] Ndist2vec: Node with Landmark and New Distance to Vector Method for Predicting Shortest Path Distance along Road Networks
[12] Daily changes in spatial accessibility to intensive care unit (ICU) beds and their relationship with the case‑fatality ratio of COVID‑19 in the state of Texas, USA.
[13] Examine the environmental inequity impact of urban heat mitigation on redlining legacy: case study of Charlotte’s retrofitting, 2001–2020
[15] A cyberGIS approach to exploring neighborhood‐level social vulnerability for disaster risk management
Talks
A Free-Flow Approach to Drainage Network Analysis Based on LiDAR Data
Oral Presentation at The American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., US
Reproducible Hydrological Modeling with CyberGIS-Jupyter: A Case Study on SUMMA
Oral Presentation at PEARC19, Chicago, IL, US
Reproducible Hydrological Modeling with CyberGIS‑Jupyter
Poster Presentation at GIS Day in UIUC, Urbana, IL, US
Fine-Scale Prediction of Urban Heat Island Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Urban Sensor Network Data
Oral Presentation at The American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Virtual
A vector‑based method for drainage network analysis based on LiDAR data
Poster Presentation at I-GUIDE All-Hands Meeting, Chicago, IL, US
An integrated cyberGIS and machine learning framework for fine‑scale prediction of Urban Heat Island using satellite remote sensing and urban sensor network data
Poster Presentation at Geo-Resolution Conference, Saint Louis, MO, US
An Integrated CyberGIS and Machine Learning Framework for Fine‑scale and Real‑time Understanding of Urban Heat Dynamic
Oral Presentation at UIUC GGIS colloquium, Urbana, IL, US
A vector‑based method for drainage network analysis based on LiDAR data
poster Presentation at SESE Research Review, UIUC, Urbana, IL, US
Mapping Real‑time Heat Exposure with Social Media Data
Oral Presentation at AAG 2023, Denver. CO, US
Large‐Scale Google Street View Images for Urban Change Detection
Oral Presentation at I-GUIDE Forum 2023, New York City. NY, US
Urban Heat Measurement with CyberGIS and Large‐scale Geospatial Data
Guest Lecture at UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill. NC, US
Multi‑stream STGAN: Spatiotemporal Image Fusion with Improved Spatial Transferability
Oral Presentation at The American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, US
Understanding Urban Heat Dynamics with Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and CyberGIS
Workshop at Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure Workshop: Building High‑Performance, Ethical, and Secured Geospatial Software, Honolulu, HI, US
Teaching
Awards, Fellowships
- AAG Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure Workshop Scholarship, National Science Foundation, 2024
- George Beatty Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023 - 2024
- 2nd Place, Urban Informatics Paper of the Year, International Society for Urban Informatics, 2023
- Finalist, AAG-GISS student paper competition, Association of American Geographers, 2022
- Finalist, AAG Robert Raskin Student Competition, Association of American Geographers, 2019
- First Division Honor, The University of Hong Kong, 2018
- Dean’s Honor List, The University of Hong Kong, 2017
- HKU Worldwide Undergraduate Student Exchange Scholarship, 2017
- HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding Student, The University of Hong Kong, 2015 - 2018
- Walter Brown Memorial Prizes in Mathematics, 2015
- Reaching Out Award 2015 for HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund, 2015
- Soong Ching-ling Scholarship, Shanghai Soong Ching Ling Foundation, 2014 - 2018
- First Prize at Zhejiang Physics Olympiad, Zhejiang Physical Society, 2013
Service
- Reviewer Environmental Modelling & Software; Transactions in GIS; The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences; Journal of Spatial Information Science; IEEE Transactions on Big Data; Computational Urban Science; Geo‐spatial Information Science
- Director American Association of Geographers CyberInfrastructure Specialty Group, 2023‑2025
- Organizer AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability, 2024
- Session Chair AAG 2023 Symposium on Harnessing the Geospatial Data Revolution for Sustainability Solutions: CyberGIS and High‑Performance Geospatial Computing
- Committee Member 2023 School of Earth, Society, and Environment (SESE) Research Review, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Mentor 2019 AAG‑UCGIS Summer School