Conference presentations
- ORTEGA: An open-source Python package for context-aware interaction analysis based on movement data. 2023 GISS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. March 24, 2023. (Oral presentation; Honorable Mention Award)
- Toward a taxonomy and computational methods for human interaction analysis using movement data. 2022 ESRI User Conference. San Diego, California, July 12, 2022. (Oral presentation)
- Heterogeneity in the relationship of vehicle miles traveled with the built environment: A quantile regression approach. 2022 UCGIS Symposium. Syracuse, NY. June 7-9, 2022. (Lightning talk, acceptance rate: 9/40)
- Understanding the impact of temporal scale on human movement analytics. 2022 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (online). February 26, 2022. (Oral presentation)
- A time-geographic approach to quantify the duration of interaction in human movement. 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Animal Movement Ecology and Human Mobility (online). November 2, 2021. (Oral presentation; Best Paper Award)
- Unveiling the Taxonomy of Daily Travel and Time Use Patterns Using Human Mobility Motifs and Sequence Analysis. 2021 American Association of Geographers Annual meeting (online). April 8, 2021. (Oral presentation)
- An exploration of human mobility motifs in the California component of the 2017 National Household Travel survey. hEART 2020: 9th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (online). February 3-4, 2021. (Recorded oral presentation)
- Unveiling daily activity pattern differences between telecommuters and commuters using human mobility motifs and sequence analysis. 2021 TRB Annual Meeting (online). January 27, 2021. (Poster presentation)
- Pattern recognition of daily activity patterns using human mobility motifs and sequence analysis. 2021 TRB Annual Meeting (online). January 26, 2021. (Poster presentation)
- Accurate Road Anomaly Detection by Trajectory Mining. 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Ride-hailing Algorithms, Applications, and Systems, Chicago, IL. Nov. 5-8, 2019. (Poster presentation)
- Uncovering the changes of urban taxi travel demand in the context of a subsidy war among e-hailing apps. China Geographic Information Science Theory and Methodology Annual Conference, Taiyuan, China. Nov. 2-4, 2018. (Oral presentation; Best Student Paper Award)
- Understanding the dynamics of the pick-up and drop-off locations of taxicabs in the context of a subsidy war among e-hailing apps. The 2nd LIESMARS International Graduate Workshop on Geo-Informatics, Wuhan, China. July 9-11, 2018. (Oral presentation)
- Uncovering the changes of the pick-up and drop-off locations of taxicabs in the context of a subsidy war among e-hailing apps. The 9th International Forum of Spatially Integrated Humanities and Social Sciences, Shanghai, China. June 23-25, 2018.(Oral presentation)
Invited talks
- Unveiling Daily Activity Pattern Differences between Telecommuters and Commuters Using Human Mobility Motifs and Sequence Analysis. Activity and Time-Use Patterns Subcommittee Meeting of 2021 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (online). January 5, 2021.
Professional Activities
Peer Reviewer for Academic Journals/Conferences:
- Data Science for Transportation
- European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
- GIScience & Remote Sensing
- IEEE Access
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science
- Journal of Spatial Information Science
- Journal of Transport Geography
- Nature Human Behaviour
- Public Transport
- Transactions in GIS
- Transportation
- Transportation Letters: the International Journal of Transportation Research
- Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
- Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
- Travel Behaviour and Society
Teaching experience
TA for GEOG 111A: Transportation Planning and Modeling (Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
- Taught graduate and undergraduate students R programming for transportation data processing, analysis, and visualization.
- Developed the series of lab materials and assignments and taught undergraduate students several statistical methods in transportation modeling and simulation field, including cluster analysis, linear regression, negative binomial regression, Poisson regression, multinomial logit model, and discrete choice models.
- Led discussions on smart green cities during sections and supervised undergraduate students' group presentation projects
Grants, Honors & Awards
AAG-GISS Student Paper Competition Honorable Mention Award, 2023
Jack and Laura Dangermond Fellowship, 2022
Geography Department Excellence in Research Award, UCSB, 2022
2021 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2022
Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California Scholarship, 2022
Best paper award, 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Animal Movement Ecology and Human Mobility, Beijing, China (online), 2022
Multidisciplinary Research on the Coronavirus and its Impacts Grant, UCSB, 2020
Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Wuhan University, 2019
Jack and Laura Dangermond Fellowship, 2022
Geography Department Excellence in Research Award, UCSB, 2022
2021 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2022
Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California Scholarship, 2022
Best paper award, 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Animal Movement Ecology and Human Mobility, Beijing, China (online), 2022
Multidisciplinary Research on the Coronavirus and its Impacts Grant, UCSB, 2020
Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Wuhan University, 2019
