Full-time Academic Staff: Teaching Staff

Professor Bo Huang is a distinguished Chair Professor in our Department. Prior to joining us, he made significant contributions to the field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) while working at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include spatial statistics for land use modeling, image fusion for environmental monitoring, and spatial optimization for sustainable planning. Prof. Huang is renowned for developing the Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression (GTWR) model, a widely adopted method for big spatiotemporal data analysis. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Geographical Information Science and was the Editor-in-Chief of the three-volume book “Comprehensive Geographic Information Systems” (Elsevier, 2017). Among his numerous accolades, Professor Huang has received the Chang Jiang Chair Professorship and a Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva 2021.

Research Interests

• Spatiotemporal data analytics

• Satellite image fusion

• Environmental monitoring

• Integrated spatial planning