Yao Yao

Background

About Yao Yao

Yao Yao was born in Jiangxi, China. He received the Surveying and Mapping engineering degree from Wuhan University (WHU) in 2008, the M.Sc. degree in Geodesy and Survey Engineering from WHU in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in Cartography and Geography Information System from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) in 2017. From 2011 to 2014, he was hired as an algorithm engineer for remote sensing application in China Academy of Space Technology, China Aerospace and Technology Corporation (CASC). Dr. Yao was hired as a senior algorithm engineer for location-based service data mining in Alibaba Group in 2017. Dr. Yao is currently an associate professor in the School of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences (CUG). At the same time, he worked as a visiting scholar and senior algorithm engineer at Alibaba Group (the China’s biggest online shopping platform)'s data center. He has published more than 50 journal citation report (JCR) papers about urban computing and data science since 2014 (More than 7 ESI high citied papers). Dr. Yao won the ACM SIGSPATIAL China Rising Star Award in 2020. He is also a reviewer for many academic journals, including International Journal of Geographical Information Science, International Journal of Remote Sensing, EPJ Data Science, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal of Spatial Science and so on. His main research interests comprise multi-source big data mining and urban planning.