Cheng Fu is a Professor (Full) at the College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, since October 2024. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher, then a Lecturer and Senior Researcher (Oberassistent in German, since 2020.10) and the Group Leader of Urban GeoInformatics (since 2021.11) in the Department of Geography, University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland.

Cheng received his Ph.D. in Geography from the Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland (UMD), USA in 2018. Before that, he received his M.A. in Geography from Binghamton University (BU), NY, USA, and his B.S. in Remote Sensing and GIS from Peking University (PKU), Beijing, China.

Research interests

• GeoAI applications in human mobility modeling
• Impact of climate change on agriculture machinery
• Urban place modeling
• Mobility and health
• GeoVisualization and cartography