CV
Education
- Ph.D in Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023 (expected)
- M.S. in Geography, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021
- B.E. in Computer Engineering, University of Hong Kong, 2018
- Student Exchange, Northwestern University, Fall 2017
- Student Exchange, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 2015
Work experience
- 2018 - Present: Research/Teaching Assistant
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Supervisor: Dr. Shaowen Wang
- Summer 2017: Software Engineer Intern
- L3 Bioinformatics, Hong Kong
- Spring & Fall 2017: Research Assistant
- University of Hong Kong
- Supervisor: Dr. Tak-Wah Lam
- Summer 2016: Software Engineer Intern
- NetEase, Hangzhou
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
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
Teaching
Awards, Fellowships
- George Beatty Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023 - 2024
- 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; 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