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- 2010 B.S. in Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University, PRC
- 2012 M.A. in Geography, Binghamton University, USA
- 2018 PhD in Geography, University of Maryland, USA
- 2024.10–present Professor (Full), College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University
- 2021.11–2024.7 Group Leader of Urban Geoinformatics, Department of Geography, University of Zurich
- 2020.10–2024.7 "Oberassistent" (Lecturer/Senior Scientist), Geographic Information Systems Unit, Department of Geography, University of Zurich
- 2018.7–2020.9 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Zurich
- 2016.2–2018.5 Teaching Assistant and Graduate Assistant, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland
- 2016.1–2016.5 Instructor of Object-oriented programming for GIS, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland
- 2016.1 Teacher of Big Data Analysis on Python, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland
- 2015.9–2015.12 Teaching Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland
- 2014.10–2015.3 Technology Assistant Consultant, Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian Development Bank
- 2014.6–2014.8 Intern Consultant, Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian Development Bank
- 2012.8–2015.5 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland
- 2012.2–2012.5 Graduate Assistant of the Vice Dean of Graduate School, Binghamton University
- 2011.7–2011.8 Internship as Software Engineer, Geomatics Center of Zhejiang, Zhejiang Institute of Survey and Mapping, China
- 2008.11–2010.7 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Global Navigation Satellite System and Application Lab, Remote Sensing and GIS Institute, Peking University, China
- International Graduate Workshop on GeoInformatics '20 Excellent Presentation Award
- NSF Mobility Workshop '17 Travel Grant
- ACM SIGSPATIAL'14 Travel Grant
- Journal reviewer
- ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
- Applied Energy
- Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CartoGIS)
- Cities
- Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS)
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (EPB)
- Geo-spatial Information Science (TGSI)
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (IJAEOG)
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
- Journal of Location Based Services (JLBS)
- Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS)
- PLOS One
- Scientific Reports
- Transactions in GIS (T-GIS)
- Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
- Conference program committees
- International Symposium on Location-Based Big Data and GeoAI 2023 (LocBigDataAI 2023)
- Traffic4cast 2022: from Few Public Vehicle Counters to Entire City-Wide Traffic
- International Cartography Association Commission on Location Based Services, 16th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2020, 2023)
- 6th, 7th, and 8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Application and Management (GISTAM 2020, 2021, and 2022)
- International Cartography Association Commission on Location Based Services, International Symposium on Location-Based Big Data 2019 (LocBigData 2019)
- 8th International Symposium “From Data to Models and Back” (DataMod 2019)
- Membership in professional associations
- Co-founder of the Communication Group of Chinese Scholars and Students in Geography in Europe
- Association of American Geographers
- Chinese Professional in Geographic Information Systems (CPGIS)
- Official Nominator of VinFuture Prize by the VinFuture Foundation
- Grant reviewer
- German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research & Development. 2022
- Department service
- Representative of the GIS Unit in the department faculty meeting since 2020.11
- Workshop organizer
- CartoAI: AI for cartography. GIScience 2023
- Traffic4cast Data Workshop by the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence. 2022.7