Students

PhD students

Current

• Changyu Han (UZH)
  • PhD student, 2022.02-present
  • “Modeling Restorative Places from Daily Mobility Data to Explore Functions of Healthy Aging” (working title)
• Lanxi Liu (CAU)
  • PhD student, 2025.09-present
  • Not decided yet

Visiting PhD students

2023

• Guojian Zou
  • Visiting PhD student from Tongji University, China. 2023.11-present
  • “Research on Key Algorithms of Deep Learning for Smart Transport Network Operation Status”
• Jingyi Zhou
  • Visiting PhD student from Nanjing Normal University, China. 2023.2-2023.12
  • “Research on generalization method of indoor emergency navigation path considering landmark cognition”

2022

• Jing He
  • Visiting PhD student from Wuhan University, China. 2021.11-2022.10
  • “Research on the Poverty Alleviation Effect from the Perspective of Multidimensional Poverty”

Master students

Current

• Yang Wang (CAU)

• Xinyu Zhang (CAU)

• Zhengshui Ma (CAU)

• Baoshuai Yi (CAU)

• Ye Sun (CAU)
  • “Modeling the Resilience of Long-period Dynamic Systems: a Case Study of Extreme Precipitation Events on Winter Wheat Harvesting in China” (Working title)
• Jingxuan Li (CAU)
  • “Robustness of field area calculation algorithms based on agricultural machinery trajectories” (Working title)

2025

• Mengqi Li (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Main advisor.
  • “Quantifying the Impact of Transportation Diversity on Human Mobility Resilience During Extreme Disasters: A Case Study of NYC during Hurricane Ida”
• Joris Senn (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Co-advisor, with Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel and Dr. Zhiyong Zhou
  • “Context-based operator classification for cartographic building generalization: A multimodal deep learning approach”
• Chenxi Jiang (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Main advisor.
  • “Indoor-outdoor detection with MOASIS data”

2024

• Yelu He (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Co-advisor, with Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel and Mr. Wernher Brucks in the City of Zurich. 2023.5-2024.5
  • “The influence of traffic-infrastructure characteristics on e-scooter accidents in the city of Zürich”
• Nicola Maiani (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Co-advisor, with Prof. Dr. Ross Purves.
  • “Traffic coverage quality by bike in Switzerland: A comparison of cities’ bikeability”

2023

• Linus Rüegg (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Co-advisor, with Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel and Dr. Thomas Phillips.
  • “LocID – A Unique Object at a Location Identifier: Designing a Global Hierarchical Geographic Identifier that Accounts for Spatial Inaccuracy and Computational Performance”
• Tao Peng (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Main advisor.
  • “The Association between Human Mobility and Political, Social, Spatial Factors in the US”
• Adrian Grossenbacher (UZH)
  • Master’s Thesis. Main advisor.
  • “Impact of Urban Structure on Mobility During COVID-19: A Polycentricity Perspective”
• Jan Winkler (UZH)
  • Master’s Thesis. Main advisor, with Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel and Dr. Zhiyong Zhou.
  • “Exploring Transformer Architecture for Building Generalization in Binary Cartographic Maps”
• Nicolas Beglinger (UZH)
  • Master’s Thesis. Main advisor, with Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel and Dr. Zhiyong Zhou.
  • “Vector-based Cartographic Generalization of Roads using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks”

2022

• Martin Specker (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Main advisor.
  • “Gait Analysis of Older Adults: Filter Comparison and Geographical Context”

2021

• Alexandra-Ioana Georgescu (UZH)
  • Master’s Thesis. Main advisor. Now PhD student at UZH
  • “Optimising Locations for Future Return Car-sharing Services: Case Study of the Swiss Car-sharing Cooperative Mobility”
• Pascal Griffel (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Main advisor, with Prof. Dr. Christina Röcke, Dept. of Psychology UZH.
  • “Correlates of Older Adults’ Out-of-Home Behaviour: Linking Health and Cognition with Mobility Indicators Derived from GPS-Trajectories”
• Livio Brühwiler (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Main advisor.
  • “Predicting Individual Car Accident Risk using G.P.S. Trajectories and Critical Driving Events Data”
• Reetta Vaelimaeki (UZH)
  • Master’s thesis. Main advisor.
  • “The Relationship of Visiting Places and the Health of the Aging: through Spatial Trajectory Data”

2018

• Ursina Boos (UZH)
  • Independent research project. Main advisor.
  • “Towards Cross-Scale Origin Destination Individual Mobility Networks Using Big Data”