Research Seminars

Research Seminar Series

Date	Topic	Speaker
31 Aug 2023	Human-Environmental Interaction - Using Crowdsourcing Human and Earth Observation Data to Quantify Tri-environments (Social, Built and Natural Environment)	Dr Siqin Sisi WANG Associate Professor, University of Southern California, US
7 Aug 2023	Human-Oriented Geospatial Data Analytics	Prof. Xiaobai Angela YAO Professor of Geography, The University of Georgia
7 Jun 2023	3D Scene Modeling in a Geo-Environment	Dr Rongjun Qin Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
19 May 2023	Network and Graph based SpaceTimeAI for Smart Cities	Prof. Tao CHENG Professor, University College London
15 May 2023	Data science for intelligent operations of air transport systems	Dr Lishuai LI Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
23 Mar 2023	Discovering Social Conflicts based on Social Media Data	Prof. Wei Huang Professor, Tongji University
16 Mar 2023	Self-calibration of Terrestrial Laser Scanner using a M3C2-based Planar Patch Algorithm	Dr. Jing Qiao Assistant Professor, Tongji University
7 Feb 2023	Photogrammetric Computer Vision	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Heipke Professor, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
21 Jan 2023	2023 Atmospheric and Coastal Observations for Weather Servicing (2023 ACOWS)	Prof. Hui Su Global STEM Professor, HKUST Mr. P. W. Chan Assistant Director, Hong Kong Observatory Mr. Shiwei Yu, Mr. Yangzhao Gong, Mr. Jiafei Xu PhD students, PolyU
10 Jan 2023	GNSS Tropospheric Sounding - The Way Forward	Prof. Kefei Zhang Professor of China University of Mining and Technology Honorary Professor of RMIT University, Australia
12 Dec 2022	From the 2021 Henan flooding to 2022 summer heatwaves: influence of global warming on extreme weather and climate	Dr. Xuebin Zhang Senior Research Scientist with Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada
2 Dec 2022	The Role of Scientific Open-Source Tools in Supporting Open Science	Professor Antonis Giannopoulos Chair of Applied Geophysics and Computational Electrodynamics, The University of Edinburgh, UK
22 Nov 2022	Carbon Emission Accounts and Low-carbon Development	Dr. Yuli SHAN Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, UK
17 Oct 2022	Towards Deep Visual Scene Understanding	Dr. Michael Ying YANG Assistant Professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands
12 Oct 2022	Citizens on the Map	Prof. Tuong-Thuy Vu Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Science, Curtin University Malaysia
5 Oct 2022	History of Climate and Society: Exploring the archives of societies in China	Dr. Qing PEI Associate Head, Department of Social Sciences, Education University of Hong Kong
30 Sep 2022	When GIS meets COVID 19: digital health geography at the national and global level	Dr. Siqin WANG, Sisi Research Fellow, Japan Society of Promotion of Sciences (JSPS)
28 Sep 2022	Regional integration in the Horn of Africa: An inter city connectivity perspective	Dr. Mingshu WANG Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Glasgow, UK
23 Sep 2022	Crowdsourcing Geospatial Data in Urban Sciences: Progress and Challenges	Dr. Xiao HUANG Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, US
16 Sep 2022	Urban Cellular Automata Modelling: Applications, Challenges and Future Research	Professor Yan LIU Professor, The University of Queensland, Australia
2 Sep 2022	Geodetic and Remote Sensing Observations of Thawing Permafrost	Dr. Lin LIU Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
29 Jul 2022	A computational geography approach to understanding human-urban environment interactions	Dr. Junjun YIN Assistant Research Professor, Pennsylvania State University, United States
4 May 2022	The impacts of public health interventions and weather conditions on controlling COVID-19 outbreaks in Hong Kong: using modelling approaches	Dr. Sean Hsiang-Yu YUAN Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong
7 Apr 2022	Using a multiscalar GRACE-based standardized terrestrial water storage index for drought assessment	Dr. Jianfeng Li Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Director of the Centre for Geo-computation Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University
28 Mar 2022	A journey of extending the horizon of positioning and mapping technology from forestry to smart construction	Prof. Joon Heo Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University
25 Mar 2022	Towards large-scale assessments of coastal risks in view of climate change	Dr. Michalis Vousdoukas Coastal Oceanographer, European Commission, Joint Research Centre Economics of Climate Change, Energy & Transport
25 Feb 2022	Exploring socio-spatial inequalities in urban mobility	Dr. Chen ZHONG Associate Professor, Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London, UK
18 Feb 2022	Urban Visual Intelligence: Perceiving Cities with AI and Street-level Imagery	Dr. Fan ZHANG Senior Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Senseable City Lab
11 Feb 2022	Active Hope in the Changing World: Geospatial Approaches to Enhancing Disaster and Pandemic Resilience	Dr. Lei ZOU Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University (TAMU)
28 Jan 2022	A new method for identifying built-up areas using night-time light data – A case study of 600+ Chinese cities	Dr. Li WAN Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge, UK
20 Dec 2021	Water Vapor, Clouds, and Convective Storms in the Atmosphere	Dr. Xiaoming SHI Assistant Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
16 Dec 2021	Applying data science methods to measure and to evaluate the urban design of our cities	Dr. Stephen Law Lecturer in Social and Geographic Data Science, UCL Geography Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute
2 Dec 2021	Generating 3D semantic building models using crowdsourcing street-level image data	Prof. Hongchao FAN Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
24 Nov 2021	Remote Sensing of Urban Impervious Surfaces in Tropical and Subtropical Areas	Dr. Hongsheng ZHANG Assistant Professor, Department of Geography The University of Hong Kong
18 Nov 2021	Urban Morphology and Traffic Congestion	Dr. Mingshu WANG Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Glasgow, UK
27 Aug 2021	The Practice of City Information Modeling for Urban Governance	Dr. YANG Tao Executive Deputy Director, Future City Lab, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design
19 Aug 2021	Representing and visualizing interpersonal relationships and social life as geospatial data	Dr. Clio Andris Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
6 Aug 2021	Applying Geospatial Data Science Techniques in Urban and Health Research	Prof. Xiaobai Angela Yao Professor Geography Department, University of Georgia
30 Jul 2021	Addressing the Uncertain Geographic Context Problem by Accurately Delineating Environmental Context in Space-time and Assessing Individual Exposure with GIS and GPS	Dr. Jue WANG Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
22 Jul 2021	Earth Greening and the Vegetation-energy-carbon Nexus	Dr. Chi Chen Postdoctoral researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
8 Jul 2021	Research at the Urban Analytics Lab at the National University of Singapore	Dr. Filip Biljecki Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore