teaching

University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK 2024/08 - present

Program Director & Lecturer, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences

• Program Director: designing a new MSc program in Geospatial Data Science & AI (starting in F26), including courses in GeoAI and Big GeoData Analytics and Visualization;

• GEOG5018 Principles of Cartographic Design & Production, F24 (In-person; 40 graduates);

Supervisor

• Shunyu Yao (incoming PhD student). Towards Ethical GeoAI: Enhancing Fairness, Privacy, and Interpretability from A Data Perspective. 2025/06 – present.

• Fengjiao Li (PhD student). Towards GeoAI-Enhanced Mobility-Based Health Risk Analysis: Embedding Spatial Intelligence into Graph Neural Networks for Dynamic Population Modelling. 2025/05 – present.

• Ayush Dabra (PhD student). The Dynamics of Cities – enabling minority representation in urban environments. 2025/04 – present.

• Yuwei Cai (PhD student). Super-resolution for Building Datasets Using Deep Learning Methods. 2024/08 – present.

• Zhimeng He (PhD student). Advancing Deep Learning Architectures for Urban Data Analysis in 2D and 3D. 2024/09 – present.

• Yuchen Wang (PhD student). Sediment transport of made ground along Scottish sites. 2024/10 – present.

• Han Ting (Exchanged PhD student, Sun Yat-sen University) Towards a new era of Geo-Foundation Models. 2025/02 – present.

• Shiqi Wang (External PhD student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Guangzhou). Bias and Heterogeneity in GenAI for Urban Perception. 2024/10 – present.

• Hanyi Xiong (Exchanged Undergraduate, University of Hong Kong). Image Geo-localization via GeoAI-empowered Foundation Models. 2025/2 – present.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 2017 - 2019, 2021 – 2024

Instructor & Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography

Avg. teaching rate: 4.5/5.0 (Top 5%)

• Geog 574 Geospatial Database Design and Development, F23 & F17 (In-person; 50 graduates & undergraduates); S19 (Online; 50 graduates from UW-Madison GIS Professional Programs)

• Geog 170 Intro of GIScience and its Technology, S21 & S24 (Online; 485 undergraduates)

• Geog 576 Web Interactive Mapping & Geovisualization, S19 (Online; 50 graduates from UW-Madison GIS Professional Programs)

• Geog 370 Introduction to Cartography, F18 (In-person; 80 graduates & undergraduates)

• Geog 578 GIS Applications, S18 (In-person; 50 graduates & undergraduates)

Graduate students Advised

• Mingda Wu. Pixel-wise Wildfire Burn Severity Classification with Bi-temporal Sentinel-2 Data and Deep Learning. 2022/09 – present.

• Tang Sui. Empowering Urban Wildfire Burnt Area Detection with Deep Learning. 2022/08 – present.

• Yang Qiu. Using deep learning to predict neighborhood wealthiness based on street view images. 2022/05 – 2024/12.

• Yuehan Qin. Big data mining on social media data (tweets) for human mobility using unsupervised machine learning - Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model. 2018/08 – 2019/05