Dr. Cheng Fu
Professor, College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University
Cheng Fu is a Professor at the College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, since October 2024. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher, then a Lecturer and Senior Researcher (Oberassistent), and the Group Leader of Urban GeoInformatics 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
Five themes, each colour-coded across papers and projects.
- 01 Human mobility & health
Individual and aggregate mobility, and its links to health and well-being.
- 02 Cartographic generalization & GeoAI
Deep learning, explainable AI, and automated cartographic generalization.
- 03 Place modeling & GIScience
Computational models of place, and geographical information retrieval.
- 04 Urban analytics & big data
Data mining and modeling of human-behaviour big data in cities.
- 05 Agricultural & environmental spatial systems
Spatial data science for agricultural and environmental systems.