I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Geodata Science at the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente. My research focuses on developing and applying methods of GIScience (i.e., geographical information systems, remote sensing, and spatial analysis) and big data analytics (e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence, and econometrics) to understand sustainable urban systems.
I have two interconnected research lines of cities from the perspective of people. At a macro-scale, I quantify urban structure and city performances via GIScience techniques. At a micro-scale, I explore individual human mobility via crowdsourced geospatial information and artificial intelligence methods. Urban resilience is a key concept in sustainable urban systems. I am looking forward to collaborating with scholars in the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering to further explore issues regarding urban resilience at different scales.