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Career

· Visiting Faculty Researcher, Google Research2025–
· Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin2024–
· Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, University of Georgia2022–2024
· Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University2021–2022
· AI Advisor, Google X2020–2020
· AI Resident, Google X2020–2020
· Cartographic Engineer Intern, Apple Inc.2019–2019
· Machine Learning & NLP Research Intern, SayMosaic Inc.2018–2018
· Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), UC Santa Barbara2018–2021
· Software Development Intern, Esri Inc.2017–2017
· Master of Arts (M.A.), UC Santa Barbara2015–2018
· Research Assistant, UC Santa Barbara2015–2021
· Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Wuhan University2011–2015
· Assistant Professor, UT Austin

Publications (158)

Traffic transformer: Capturing the continuity and periodicity of time series for traffic forecasting
Trans. GIS · 2020
341
cited
From ITDL to Place2Vec: Reasoning About Place Type Similarity and Relatedness by Learning Embeddings From Augmented Spatial Contexts
SIGSPATIAL/GIS · 2017
208
cited
Multi-Scale Representation Learning for Spatial Feature Distributions using Grid Cells
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2020
155
cited
On the Opportunities and Challenges of Foundation Models for Geospatial Artificial Intelligence
arXiv.org · 2023
154
cited
A review of location encoding for GeoAI: methods and applications
International Journal of Geographical Information Science · 2021
150
cited
Geo-knowledge-guided GPT models improve the extraction of location descriptions from disaster-related social media messages
International Journal of Geographical Information Science · 2023
138
cited
Farmland fragmentation due to anthropogenic activity in rapidly developing region
2014
110
cited
Know, Know Where, Knowwheregraph: A Densely Connected, Cross-Domain Knowledge Graph and Geo-Enrichment Service Stack for Applications in Environmental Intelligence
The AI Magazine · 2022
98
cited
CSP: Self-Supervised Contrastive Spatial Pre-Training for Geospatial-Visual Representations
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2023
97
cited
Peri-urban vegetated landscape pattern changes in relation to socioeconomic development
2014
96
cited
SE‐KGE: A location‐aware Knowledge Graph Embedding model for Geographic Question Answering and Spatial Semantic Lifting
Trans. GIS · 2020
95
cited
GeoLLM: Extracting Geospatial Knowledge from Large Language Models
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2023
92
cited
TransGCN: Coupling Transformation Assumptions with Graph Convolutional Networks for Link Prediction
International Conference on Knowledge Capture · 2019
83
cited
Towards a foundation model for geospatial artificial intelligence (vision paper)
SIGSPATIAL/GIS · 2022
81
cited
Learning urban region representations with POIs and hierarchical graph infomax
Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · 2023
79
cited
Quantifying determinants of cash crop expansion and their relative effects using logistic regression modeling and variance partitioning
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · 2015
75
cited
Text2Seg: Zero-shot Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation via Text-Guided Visual Foundation Models
GeoAI@SIGSPATIAL · 2023
73
cited
Geographic Question Answering: Challenges, Uniqueness, Classification, and Future Directions
AGILE Conf. · 2021
69
cited
Sphere2Vec: A General-Purpose Location Representation Learning over a Spherical Surface for Large-Scale Geospatial Predictions
Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · 2023
56
cited
Symbolic and subsymbolic GeoAI: Geospatial knowledge graphs and spatially explicit machine learning
Trans. GIS · 2022
48
cited
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