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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
Academic experience
- Dec 2023 - Present: Postdoctoral Fellow
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
- Sep 2023 - Nov 2023: Visiting Student
- Peking University
- Advisor: Professor Yu Liu
- Jan 2022 - Jan 2023: Joint Student
- National University of Singapore
- School of Design and Environment
- Advisor: Filip Biljecki
Skills
- GeoAI and social sensing
- Urban science
- Disaster response
- Social inequality analysis
- Spatial-temporal big data analysis
Reviewer
Environment International,SCI Q1
Applied Geography,SCI Q1
Geoscience Letters,SCI Q1
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation,SCI Q1
Journal of Environment Development,SCI Q1
Science of the Total Environment,SCI Q1
Language Resources and Evaluation,SCI Q1
Journal of Asian architecture and building engineering,SCI Q1
Journal of environmental management,SCI Q1
Transactions in Urban Data, Science and Technology
International Journal of Crowd Science
Computational urban science
Transactions in GIS,SSCI Q2
Sustainability,SSCI Q2
Journal of Cleaner Production,SSCI Q1
Plos One,SCI Q1
IEEE Access,SCI Q2
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science,SCI Q1
Landscape and Urban Planning, SCI Q1
Climatic Change,SCI Q1
Remote Sensing,SCI Q1
Energies,SCI Q3
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment,SCI Q1
Journal of Hydrology,SCI Q1
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information,SCI Q1
Heritage,ESCI Q2
Environmental Science and Pollution Research,SCI Q1
Urban Science, ESCI
* Membership, Association for Computing Machinery
* Membership,International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
* Guest Chair Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (Special Issue Name: Street View Imagery and GeoAI, IF: 5.5),SCI Q1
Publications
Zhang Y, Kwan M P, et al. Quantitative Identification of Mixed Urban Functions: A Probabilistic Approach Based on Physical and Social Sensing Data[J]. Transactions in GIS, 2024.
Song L, Liu D, Kwan M P, et al. Machine-based understanding of noise perception in urban environments using mobility-based sensing data[J]. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2024, 114: 102204.
Zhang, Y., Li Y., & Zhang, F*. (2024). "Multi-level urban street representation with street-view imagery and hybrid semantic graph" ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. (ESI 3%)
Chen Z., Zou T., Xu Z., & Zhang, Y*. (2024). "SAGE-GSAN: A Graph-Based Method for Estimating Urban Taxi CO Emissions Using Street View Images" Journal of Cleaner Production
Wang, W., Li, Y., Zhang, Y., & Wu, Z. (2024). "Pedestrian evacuation planning under dam-break flood disaster considering road risk and road pedestrian demand" International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 104, 104355
Liu, P., Zhang, Y., & Biljecki, F. (2024). "Explainable spatially explicit geospatial artificial intelligence in urban analytics" Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(5), 1104-1123
He, S., Du, W., Zhang, Y., Chen, L., Chen, Z., & Chen, N. (2024). "Next location prediction using heterogeneous graph-based fusion network with physical and social awareness" International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1-26
Zhang, Y., Kwan, M.P., & Ma, H. (2024). "Sensing noise exposure and its inequality based on noise complaint data through vision-language hybrid method" Applied Geography, 171, 103369
Ma, H., Zhang, Y., Liu, P., Zhang, F., & Zhu, P. (2024). "How does spatial structure affect psychological restoration? A method based on graph neural networks and street view imagery" Landscape and Urban Planning, 251, 105171
Zhang Y, Liu P, Biljecki F. (2023). "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
Zhang Y, Chen N, Chen Z, et al. (2023). "Will Carbon Trading Reduce Spatial Inequality? A Spatial Analysis of 200 Cities in China" Journal of Environmental Management
Wang, S., Zhang, X., Chen, N., Tian, L., Zhang, Y., & Nam, W.H. (2023). "A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis of the relationships between driving forces and cyanobacterial blooms at global scale" Environmental Research, 216, 114670
Wang, P., Zhang, Y., Hu, T., & Zhang, T. (2023). "Urban traffic flow prediction: A dynamic temporal graph network considering missing values" International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 37(4), 885-912
Zheng, X., Li, M., Wan, Z., & Zhang, Y. (2023). "Knowledge mining and graph visualization of ancient Chinese scientific and technological documents bibliographic summaries based on digital humanities" Library Hi Tech
Zhang, Y., Zhang, F., Fang, L., & Chen, N. (2023). "Inferring socioeconomic environment from built environment characteristics based street view images: An approach of Seq2Seq method" International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 123
Zhai, W., Zhang, K., Gou, F., Cheng, H., Li, Z., & Zhang, Y. (2023). "Examining supply-demand imbalances and social inequalities of regulating ecosystem services in high-density cities: A case study of Wuhan, China" Ecological Indicators, 154, 110654
Ma, H., Xu, Q., & Zhang, Y*. (2023). "High or low? Exploring the restorative effects of visual levels on campus spaces using machine learning and street view imagery" Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 88, 128087
Cui, Q., Zhang, Y., Yang, G., Huang, Y., & Chen, Y. (2023). "Analysing gender differences in the perceived safety from street view imagery" International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 124
Li, Y., Zhang, Y*., & Chen, M. (2022). "Highway Vehicle Route Reconstruction Using Sparse and Noisy Communication Base Station Fingerprints" IEEE Sensors Journal, 22(22), 22040-22052
Wang, C., Ma, L., Zhang, Y., Chen, N., & Wang, W. (2022). "Spatiotemporal dynamics of wetlands and their driving factors based on PLS-SEM: A case study in Wuhan" Science of the Total Environment, 806, 151310
Zhang, Y., Zhang, F., & Chen, N. (2022). "Migratable urban street scene sensing method based on vision language pre-trained model" International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 113
Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., Helbich, M., Chen, N., & Chen, Z. (2022). "City2vec: Urban knowledge discovery based on population mobile network" Sustainable Cities and Society, 85, 104000
Liu, J., Chen, N., Chen, Z., Xu, L., Du, W., Zhang, Y., & Wang, C. (2022). "Towards sustainable smart cities: Maturity assessment and development pattern recognition in China" Journal of Cleaner Production, 370, 133248
Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., Chen, M., Li, Y., Yan, Y., & Wang, P. (2021). "Urban fine-grained spatial structure detection based on a new traffic flow interaction analysis framework" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10(4), 227
Chen, N., Zhang, Y.*, Du, W.*, Li, Y., Chen, M., & Zheng, X. (2021). "KE-CNN: A new social sensing method for extracting geographical attributes from text semantic features and its application in Wuhan, China" Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 88, 101629
Zhang, Y., Chen, N., Du, W., Li, Y., & Zheng, X. (2021). "Multi-source sensor based urban habitat and resident health sensing: A case study of Wuhan, China" Building and Environment, 198, 107883
Zhang, Y., Chen, Z., Zheng, X., Chen, N., & Wang, Y. (2021). "Extracting the location of flooding events in urban systems and analyzing the semantic risk using social sensing data" Journal of Hydrology, 603, 127053
张岩, 李英冰, & 郑翔 (2020). "人口迁徙格局在重大突发公共卫生事件的时空关联性研究" 测绘地理信息
张岩, 李英冰, & 郑翔 (2020). 基于微博数据的台风山竹舆情演化时空分析山东大学学报 (工学版), 50(5), 118-126
Zhang, Y., Li, Y., Yang, B., Zheng, X., & Chen, M. (2020). "Risk assessment of COVID-19 based on multisource data from a geographical viewpoint" IEEE Access, 8, 125702-125713
Zhang, Y., Chen, N., Du, W., Yao, S., & Zheng, X. (2020). "A new geo-propagation model of event evolution chain based on public opinion and epidemic coupling" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(24), 9235
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
- First-class Academic Scholarship and Outstanding Graduate, Wuhan University, 2021 & 2022
- Third Prize in the City Data Development Competition (First Place Individual Ranking, Top 5%), Wuhan Municipal Government, 2022
- Second Prize for Academic Innovation, Wuhan University, 2023
- Excellent Original WeChat Account in the Geoinformation Field, Surveying and Mapping Press, 2024
Project Involvement
- National Key R&D Program of China: “National Public Security Emergency Platform” (2018YFC0807000)
- National Key R&D Program of China: “Urban Multi-scale Integrated Perception Service System and Demonstration” (2018YFB2100504)
- Ministry of Education, Singapore: “Multi-scale Digital Twins for the Urban Environment”
- Hong Kong Productivity Council and Transport Department: “Vehicle Detection and Vehicle-kilometrage Estimation Based on Remote Sensing Technologies”
Principal Investigator
- China-U.S. Scholars Program (CUSP) Grant, Harvard and Yenching Institute, $3,285 USD, April 2024
Joint Supervision of Master’s Thesis
- Wuhan University: “Extraction of Road Disease Characteristics and Analysis of Spatial Influencing Factors in Wuhan City” (Congpu Hao), 2023
- China University of Geosciences: “Research on Location Description Extraction and Scene Risk Identification for Typical Urban Crime Incidents” (Zheng Xu), 2024
- China University of Geosciences: “Estimation Method for Urban Road Taxi Carbon Emissions Map Based on Street View and Road Network Structure Using Graph Neural Networks” (Tongxu Zou), 2024
Academic Engagements
- Reviewer for multiple SCI and SSCI journals including Environment International, Applied Geography, Science of the Total Environment, etc.
- Guest Chair Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (Special Issue: Street View Imagery and GeoAI)
- Member, Association for Computing Machinery
- Member, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Invited Talks
- Academic presentation at the 2019 China Public Security Congress, Beijing, 2019
- Academic presentation at The 2nd International Conference on Urban Informatics, Hong Kong, 2023
- Guest speaker at various academic salons and events at Wuhan University and China University of Geosciences
- Personal academic WeChat Official Account “Sensingcity” with over 12,000 followers
Conference Participation
- Global Conference on Climate Change Polar Studies, Environment and Climate Change
- Global Smart Cities Summit cum The 3rd International Conference on Urban Informatics (ICUI 2023)
Diagram
Analysis of Urban Function DistributionAnalysis of Urban Function Distribution