How can spatial big data as a tool help us better understand urban dynamics and social events?

I am Professor at the Tongji University in Shanghai, China, and Adjunct Professor at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. My research interests lie at the intersection of GIScience, geography, computer science and computational social science, focusing on using GIS, geospatial big data and new sensing technologies to progress the understanding of the mechanism of the interaction between human activities, urban transportation and social events. I am the Chair of ISPRS WG IV/6 - Human Behaviour and Sptial Interactions. I serve as Associate Editor for ISPRS IJGI.

From 2016 to 2018, I was Planner at the Ministry of Transportation Ontario, Canada. I did my postdoc training in the GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University, Germany between 2016 and 2018. Prior to Heidelberg, I received my PhD degree in Civil Engineering (Geomatics stream) from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada in 2016. I received my master’s degree in Geographical Information Science (GIS) from Peking University and Central South University in 2011 and my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Beijing University of Chemical and Technology in 2008.

NEWS

• I have several openings for postdocs and PhD students! If you are interested in doing research in GIS, urban science, GeoAI, or urban mobility. Please email your CV and one-page research proposal at wei_huang[at]tongji.edu.cn.
• 2023.10: We are orgnizing a SI: Imagery analytics for understanding human-urban infrastructure interactions on the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
• 2023.9: Pengxiang Su Won the 2023 ISPRS Geospatial Week Best Presentation Award.
• 2023.9: Chenghu He and Shijun Lu joined the group as PhD students, and Haoran Fang, Yifan Xu and Zehan Lin joined the group as Master students. Welcome!
• 2022.9: Pengxiang and Weihua joined the group as PhD students, and Huanying and Zhaoyang joined the group as Master students. Welcome!
• 2022.6: Pengxiang Su and Huangying Chen successfully defended their Bachelor thesis. Congratulations! Pengxiang and Huanying will join the team as a PhD student and a Master student in Fall, respectively!
• 2021.8: Dr. Huang received an NSFC Grant.
• 2021.7: Dr. Huang started service as Associate Editor for ISPRS IJGI, handeling manuscripts on Citizen Science, Crowd Sourcing and Volunteered Geographic Information.

PEOPLE

PhD students

Master students

SELECTED HONOURS

• The U. V. Helava Award (Best Paper Award), International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2016.
• 1st Place PhD Best Paper Award, International Conference on Location-based Social Media Data. Athens, Georgia, USA. Mar. 13-14, 2015.

PUBLICATIONS

• Zhang, Y., Huang, W.*, Liu, X., & Zhang, F. (2024). An approach for high definition (HD) maps information interaction for autonomous driving (in Chinese). Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University.
• Li, H., Yuang, Z., Novack, T., Huang, W.*, & Zip, A. (2022). Understanding spatiotemporal motivations of urban micro-mobility from the lens of dockless e-scooter sharing. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 96, 101848.
• Liu, C., Chen, L., Yuan, Q., Wu, H., & Huang, W.* (2022). Revealing Dynamic Spatial Structures of Urban Mobility Networks and the Underlying Evolutionary Patterns. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 11(4), 237.
• Xu, S., Li, S., Huang, W., & Wen, R. (2022). Detecting spatiotemporal traffic events using geosocial media data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 94, 101797.
• Jiao, W., Huang, W., & Fan, H. (2022). Evaluating spatial accessibility to healthcare services from the lens of emergency hospital visits based on floating car data. International Journal of Digital Earth, 15(1), 108-133.
• Huang, W. (2022). What Were GIScience Scholars Interested in During the Past Decades?. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis, 1(6):7.
• Klumpenhouwer, W., & Huang, W.* (2021). A flexible framework for measuring accessibility with destination bundling. Journal of Transport Geography, 91, 102949.
• Yan, Y., Feng, C. C., Huang, W., Fan, H., Wang, Y. C., & Zipf, A. (2020). Volunteered geographic information research in the first decade: a narrative review of selected journal articles in GIScience. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34(9), 1765-1791.
• Huang, W. & Li, S. (2018). An approach for understanding urban human activity patterns with the motivations. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(2), 385-407.
• Huang, W., Xu., S., Yan, Y. & Zipf, A. (2018). An exploration of the interaction between human activities and daily traffic conditions: A case study of Toronto, Canada. Cities, 84, 8-22.
• Huang, W., Fan, H. & Zipf, A. (2017). Towards detecting the crowd involved in social events. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 6 (10), 305.
• Huang, W. & Li, S. (2016). Understanding human activity pattern based on space-time-semantics. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 121, 1-10. (Best Paper)
• Huang, W., Sun, M. & Li, S. (2016). A 3D GIS-based interactive registration mechanism for outdoor augmented reality system. Expert Systems with Applications, 55, 48-58.
• Huang, W., Li, S. Liu, X., & Ban, Y. (2015). Predicting human mobility with activity changes. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29 (9), 1569-1587.

Please refer to my GoogleScholar for complete pulbications.

TEACHING

At Tongji, China

• Fall 2022: Internet GIS (undergrad), Geospatial Big Data (undergrad)

At Ryerson, Canada

• Fall 2019, 2020: CVL736-Geospatial Information Systems (undergrad)

• Winter 2020: CV8501-Advanced Geospatial Information Systems (grad)

At Heidelberg, Germany

• Fall 2017: Geospatial Analysis of Geosocial Media Data (undergrad & grad)

MEDIA

• IJGI Webinar | The Power of Geo-Social Media,4 Apr 2022, 17:00 (CEST) (Moderator)