Research and Teaching Interests
Spatial data mining, spatiotemporal visualisation, complex network analysis, data-driven methods for urban and transport planning. In particular, urban mobility analysis and modelling using emerging location data.
Higher Education Qualifications
Doctor of Science 2011 – 2014
Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Dissertation: Urban Transformation Towards Polycentricity: Detecting Functional Urban Changes in Singapore from Transportation Data
Supervisors: Prof. Dr Gerhard Schmitt, Prof. Dr Michael Batty and Prof. Dr Stefan Muller Arisona
MEng in Applied Computer Science 2008 – 2010
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China
ERASMUS MUNDUS TANDEM Master mobility program 2004 – 2008
Centre de recherche méthodologique d’architecture (CERMA), Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France. (exchange student)
Double BA of Engineering 2004 – 2008
Wuhan University, China
Experience
Lecturer in Spatial Analysis
Department of Geography, King’s College London, UK. Sep. 2016 – .
Research Associate
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, London, UK. Sep. 2014 – Sep.2016
PhD Student Researcher
Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore – ETH Centre, Singapore. Feb. 2011 – Sep. 2014.
Research Intern
AVIZ – INRIA, Saclay – Île-de- France, France. Sept. 2010 – Dec. 2010.
Teaching
PhD Research (project)
- Improving Efficiency and Equity of Ambulance Services through Advanced Demand Modelling
- Evaluating Urban Integration of Mega-city Regions from Human Mobility Patterns
- Agents Shaping Environment: The application to urban crime analysis
Postgraduate Taught
- Spatial Data Analysis
- Dissertation Supervision
Undergraduate Taught
- Principles of Spatial Data Science (Spatial Analysis)
- Applications of Spatial Data Science
- field trip in Human Geography (HongKong)
- Geography Tutorials: Critical thinking and techniques, BA module
- Geography in Action
Full Publications: Google scholar ORCID
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Write to me: daisy8738@gmail.com / chen.zhong@kcl.ac.uk