Yan Zhang

Yan Zhang

My research focuses on using GeoAI and social sensing methods to study urban science, disaster response, and social inequality.

Academic Pages of Yan Zhang

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. My research focuses on using GeoAI and social sensing methods to study urban science, disaster response, and social inequality.

News

2024.9: One SVI related paper has been accepted by **ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing** Link ！

2024.10: One LandUse Uncertainty related paper has been accepted by **Transaction in GIS** Link ！

2024.10: One environment exposure related paper has been accepted by **Computers, Environment and Urban Systems** Link ！

Research Interests

My research lies at the intersection of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), social sensing, and urban studies:

Micro-scale Urban Perception

Utilizing urban sensing devices and crowdsourced data for urban function and traffic modeling.

Disaster Emergency Management

Integrating natural language processing with geo-tagged social media data for real-time, data-driven disaster response.

Environmental Health and Inequality

Understanding urban human-social systems through analysis of spatiotemporal big data.

  • Micro-scale Urban Perception: Utilizing urban sensing devices and crowdsourced data for urban function and traffic modeling.
  • Disaster Emergency Management: Integrating natural language processing with geo-tagged social media data for real-time, data-driven disaster response.
  • Environmental Health and Inequality: Understanding urban human-social systems through analysis of spatiotemporal big data.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Wuhan University, 2023
  • Joint Ph.D. , The National Univeristy Of Singapore, 2022
  • M.S. in Geomatics Engineering, Wuhan University, 2020
  • B.S. in Geomatics Engineering, Wuhan University, 2018

Selected Publications from 20+ Peer Review Papers

  1. Zhang Y, Kwan M, Ma H. Sensing Noise Exposure and Its Inequality Based on Noise Complaint Data Through a Vision-Language Hybrid Method. Applied Geography, 2024. (IF=4.0, SSCI Q1)
  2. Zhang Y, Liu P, Biljecki F. Knowledge and Topology: A Two Layer Spatially Dependent Graph Neural Networks to Identify Urban Functions with Time-series Street View Image. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2023. (IF=12.7, SCI Q1,ESI 3%)
  3. Zhang Y, Li Y, Zhang F. Multi-level urban street representation with street-view imagery and hybrid semantic graph. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2024. (IF=10.6, SCI Q1, ESI 3%)

Full list of publications

Awards and Honors

  • National Scholarship for Ph.D. Students, Ministry of Education (Top 3%), 2021 & 2022
  • China Scholarship Council Scholarship for Studying Abroad, 2021
  • Top 10 Inspirational Graduate Students, Wuhan University, 2023

For more details, please see my full CV.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or are interested in collaboration!

Get in Touch

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Personal WeChat

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