Group Members

Group Members

Ph.D. students

• Tongyan Hua (from Sep. 2024), MSc from TU Delft and Leiden University.
  Research fields: 3D city reconstruction, NeRF and SLAM.
• Shuai Zhang (from Sep. 2024), MSc from Sun Yat-sen University.
  Research fields: Point cloud processing and foundation model.
• Yunlei Su (since Jan. 2025), MSc from National University of Singapore. Pre Front-end Engineer at CSCI.
  Research fields: Digital Twin City and HCI, 3D visualization, human-centric urban design.
• Liang Zeng (PhD student @KULeuven, co-supervisor) (since Oct. 2022), MSc from TU Delft.
  Research fields: Self-supervised learning, computer vision, multi-modal remote sensing processing.
• Suzanna Cuypers (PhD student @KULeuven, co-supervisor) (since Oct. 2022), MSc from KU Leuven.
  Research fields: Deep leanrning for remote sensing image analysis, land use classification.

Master students

• Junxing Luo (since Jan. 2024), BSc from South China Normal University.
  Research fields: Built environment and infrastructure assessment, human mobility analysis.
• Mingchen Li (since Sep. 2024), BEng from Zhejiang University.
  Research fields: Multi-agent social simulation, time series, computational social science.
• Tengxi Wang (since Sep. 2024), BSc from Shandong University of Science and Technology.
  Research fields: Remote sensing image analysis, time series analysis, machine learning.
• Yumiao Xiao (since Sep. 2024), BSc from Beijing Normal University.
  Research fields: Terrestrial carbon cycle, spatio-temporal data analysis, plant ecology.
• Hongrui Xiao (since Feb. 2025), BSc from Queen’s University Belfast.
  Research fields: GeoAI, Remote Sensing, Urban Economy.
• Chenyuan Zhu (since Aug.- 2024), China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing.
  Research fields: Remote sensing image analysis and 3D modeling.
• Feiya Shu (since Sep. 2025), BSc from China University of Mining and Technology.
  Research fields: Multimodal remote sensing, land cover segmentation.

Research Assistant

• Zongrong Li (since Jun. 2024), MSc at University of Southern California.
  Research fields: GeoAI, CityLLM, Spatial Economics & Finance.
• Zhongcheng Hong (since Jul. 2024), MSc from South China University of Technology.
  Research fields: 3D reconstruction & Self-supervised visual task.
• Rui ZHANG (since Dec. 2024), MSc from Southern University of Science and Technology.
  Research fields: 3D vision & Multimodal learning.
• Yinrui Ren (since Aug. 2024), MSc at South China Normal University.
  Research fields: Deep learning and remote sensing image analysis.
• Wenbo Lv (since Aug. 2024), BSc at Shaanxi Normal University.
  Research fields: Spatiotemporal statistics, Remote sensing image processing.
• Ke Xu (since Dec. 2024), BSc from Dalian University of Technology.
  Research fields: 3D Scene Generation & Computer vision
• Bingchen Li (since Mar. 2025), MSc from University of Southern California.
  Research fields: Urban Economics & Regional Economics.

Bachelor Students

• Bowen Feng (since Sep. 2024)
  

Visiting Scholars

• Dr. Shaoqing Dai, Assistant research fellow at Wuhan University, PhD from ITC University of Twente.
  Research fields: Spatial-temporal data analysis, geo-health, spatial statistics.
• Jin Huang, PhD candidate at TUDelft 3D Geoinformation Group.
  Research fields: 3D city reconstruction, computer graphics.
• Ruqiao Jiang, Deputy Dean of SIPSG Smart City Research Institute.
  Research fields: Big geodata processing.

Visiting Students

• Zhiyuan Xu (since Apr. 2024), PhD student at University of Bristol. BSc from Harbin University of Science and Technology and MSc from University of Bristol. Pre Back‑end Engineer at Huawei and ByteDance.
  Research fields: Remote sensing image analysis, NLP and machine learning.
• Liwei Zou (since Feb. 2025), MSc from School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University.
  Research fields: Multimodal data mining, Disaster analysis, Urban resilience.
• Daxu Wei (since Jun. 2024), MSc from Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.\ Research fields: Urban design, generative AI, spatial analysis.
• Honglin Ren (since Aug. 2024), MSc at The University of Hong Kong, BSc from Southeast University.
  Research fields: Green buildings and machine learning in built environment.
• Guanyu Hou (since Jun. 2024), MSc from Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  Research fields: Remote Sensing, urbanization and ecosystem.
• Hongrong Wang (since Dec. 2024), BSc from Guangdong University of Technology.
  Research fields: software development, generative AI.
• Xiaoyu Li (since Sep. 2025), BSc from Beijing Forestry University.
  Research fields: UAV remote sensing, environmental monitoring and LULC classification.

Alumni

• Juran Zhang (from Mar to May 2024), MSc from UC Davis, and pre Team Lead at Amazon.
  Research fields: Remote sensing data processing, distributed computing.
• Taiyu Zhao (Jun.-Aug. 2024), BSc from Wuhan University, MSc at University of Cambridge
  Research fields: Urban Climate & Spatial Analysis.