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Research Assistant Professor

Shengbiao Wu, Ph.D.

shengwu@hku.hk

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Dr. Shengbiao Wu is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

He received the B.S. degree in base class of geography at Wuhan University in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in Cartography and Geography Information System at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in June 2019. His research interests include the physics of remote sensing, radiative transfer modelling, vegetation phenology monitoring, urban surface energy budget, and machine learning in urban ecology studies.

Affiliated Research Fellow

Yimeng Song, Ph.D.

yimeng.song@yale.edu

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Dr. Yimeng Song is currently a Postdoc Researcher at School of the Environment, Yale University.

He received his BEng from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) in 2012, BEcon from Peking University in 2012, MSc from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014, and PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019. His research mainly focuses on the application of spatial big data analytics in the field of the urban environment, human mobility, exposure assessment, and environmental health.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Xidong Chen, Ph.D.

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Dr. Xidong Chen is currently a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

He received his Ph.D. degree in Cartography and Geography Information System at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021. He got his B.E. degree in Remote Sensing Science and Technology from Henan Polytechnic University in 2016. His research interests include national and global fine-resolution (10 m/30 m) land cover mapping, land cover change detection, and water environment monitoring.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Xiaoxin Zhang, Ph.D.

xiaoxzh@hku.hk

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Dr. Xiaoxin Zhang is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

She received her doctorate of Geography from the University of Copenhagen in 2023. She obtained her M.Sc. degree in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019. Dr. Zhang also earned her B.E. degree in Geographic Information Science from Nanjing Normal University in 2016. Her research interests include monitoring urban vegetation change and restoration, human-environment interaction, and the application of advanced Earth Observation technology.

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Fellow

Gang Xu, Ph.D.

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xugang@whu.edu.cn

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Dr. Gang Xu is a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Hong Kong.

He is an Associate Research Fellow with the Department of Geography and the Center of Geo-computation for Social Sciences at Wuhan University, China. He received his BEng (2014) and Ph.D. (2019) degrees from Wuhan University. His work concentrates on urban studies, specifically, urbanization and complex urban systems. He attempts to understand how urban land expands and its correlation with the population using remotely sensed imagery and geo-technologies. He also focuses on the urban scaling law to explain how the complex urban system evolves over time.

PhD Student

Ziming Li

zimingli@connect.hku.hk

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Ziming Li is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree at the Division of Landscape Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.

He received his BSc degree in Geographical Information Science from Sun Yat-sen University in 2019 and MSc degree in Cartography and Geographical Information System from Sun Yat-sen University in 2022. He His research interests focus on applying multi-source earth observation data and artificial intelligence techniques to investigate urban and environmental issues.

PhD Student

Wenbo Yu

yuwb@connect.hku.hk

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Wenbo Yu received her BSc degree in Geographical Information Science from Sun Yat-sen University in 2020 and

MSc degree in Data Science and Machine Learning from National University of Singapore in 2022. Her research interest includes urban land use/land cover change detection, spatiotemporal data modelling, and hyperspectral/high resolution remote sensing image processing.

PhD Student

Han Wang

hanwgeek@connect.hku.hk

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Han Wang received his B.Eng. degree in Remote Sensing from Wuhan University in 2020 and

M.Sc. degree in Geographical Information System from Peking University in 2023. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree at the Division of Landscape Architecture, The University of Hong Kong. His research interests mainly focus on the application of geospatial big data and advanced models in the field of renewable energy and environmental sustainability.

Research Assistant

Yufei Huang

hyf0225@connect.hku.hk

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Yufei Huang is currently working towards his MSC degree in Sustainable Environmental Design

from the University of Hong Kong and is a Student Research Assistant at HKU. His research interests include using Spatio-temporal data and machine learning methods to analyze the sustainable environment and urban-rural development.

Research Assistant II

Xiaoling Wang, Ph.D.

xling@hku.hk

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Dr. Xiaoling Wang is a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

She received the B.S. (2018) in Landscape Architecture from Anhui Agricultural University, and the Ph.D. (2024) in Ecology from East China Normal University. She is dedicated to understanding and enhancing the multiple ecosystem services provided by urban forests, such as carbon sequestration, air pollution purification, cooling effects, and biodiversity conservation etc. using the field measurements, remote sensing, and ecosystem modelling.

Research Assistant II

Yadian Wang

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Yadian Wang received her B.Agri in Landscape Architecture from Beijing Forestry University in 2017,

and both her MLA in Landscape Architecture (2020) and MPhil in Earth Sciences with a focus on Land Use Reconstruction and Climate Change (2024) from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). From 2020 to 2023, she was a Teaching Assistant at HKU, contributing to over 20 undergraduate, master's, and common courses within the Division of Landscape Architecture (DLA) and the Department of Earth Sciences (DES). Currently a Research Assistant II, she will begin her Ph.D. in the Division of Landscape Architecture at HKU in September 2024, focusing on topics of wildfire risks in the global wildland-urban interface (WUI) and developing an integrated framework for assessment, prediction, and mitigation.

Research Assistant

Yiming YUAN

yimiyuan@connect.hku.hk

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Mr Yiming YUAN completed his Master’s Degree in Sustainable Environmental Design in 2024 at the Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.

Currently Mr YUAN is a research assistant at FUSE Lab. His research interests include economics empowered by remote sensing, exploring association between urban environment and population health, applications of urban street view images, urban spatial big data modelling, complex networks and more.

Bin Chen, Ph.D. 陈斌

Principle Investigator

Assistant Professor, Division of Landscape Architecture

Faculty of Architecture | The University of Hong Kong

Lab Members

Shengbiao Wu, Ph.D.

Yimeng Song, Ph.D.

Xidong Chen, Ph.D.

Xiaoxin Zhang, Ph.D.

Gang Xu, Ph.D.

Ziming Li

Wenbo Yu

Han Wang

Yufei Huang

Xiaoling Wang, Ph.D.

Yadian Wang

Yiming YUAN

Advisory Board

Prof. Peng Gong

Prof. Christopher John Webster

Prof. Bing Xu

Prof. Anthony G. O. Yeh

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Ying Tu

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