Yongze Song

Yongze Song

Associate Professor

School of Design and the Built Environment

Curtin University

Perth, 6102, WA, Australia

Email: yongze.song@curtin.edu.au

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Awards and Professional Services

Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Award, Australian Institute of Policy & Science, 2025. Curtin News, AIPS News, Curtin News
Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom, 2020
Fellow of DAAD AInet, Germany, 2023
Fellow of SDL, Harvard University, United States, 2024
Committee Member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG), 2022
IEEE Senior Member, 2024
Member of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), WG IV/2, 2022
Global Top 10 Young Scientist Award, 2021
World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, 2023, 2024
Global Impact Award, Curtin University, 2024
Research Excellence Award – Early Career Researcher, Curtin University, 2023
Research Excellence and Impact Award (Finalist), Curtin University, 2025
Chair. ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium, 22-25 Oct 2024, Perth, Australia
Chair. City+2023@Perth International Conference, 8-10 Sept 2023, Perth, Australia
Tutorial and Education Chair. 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 3-8 August 2025, Brisbane, Australia
Logistics Chair. Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI) 2022, 5-8 Dec 2022, Perth, Australia
Special Issue Editor (SIE), Associate Editor – International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. IF 8.2. Q1
Associate Editor – GIScience & Remote Sensing. IF 6.8. Q1
Special Issue Editor (SIE) – Geomatica
Editor – Geoscientific Model Development. IF 4.9. Q1
Associate Editor – All Earth. IF 3.0. Q2
Editor – Journal of Spatial Science. IF 2.2. Q3
Editorial Board Member – Geo-spatial Information Science. IF 5.4. Q1
Editorial Board Member – iScience (Cell Press). IF 4.5. Q1
Editorial Board Member – International Journal of Digital Earth. IF 5.4. Q1
Editorial Board Member – Annals of GIS. IF 4.8. Q1
Editorial Board Member – Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature). IF 4.8. Q1
Editorial Board Member – Remote Sensing. IF 4.3. Q1
Editorial Board Member – ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. IF 3.2. Q2
Editorial Board Member – Frontiers in Environmental Science. IF 4.4. Q2
Editorial Board Member – Resources, Environment and Sustainability. IF 9.2. Q1
Editorial Board Member – Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. IF 3.1. Q1
Editorial Board Member – The Innovation Informatics
Editorial Board Member – The Innovation Reviews
Editorial Board Member – Information Geography
Special Thanks Award: The 35th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (top 0.1% globally), 2019
Chancellor Commendation Award for exceptionally high standard in the PhD thesis, 2019
Global Peer Review Award: Top reviewers in Geosciences (top 1%) and Cross-field (top 1%), 2019
Australian National First Prize: Location Data First Prize, 2016

Rising High-Impact Articles

Song, Yongze. "Generalized covariate field (GCF): spatial-pattern and neighbourhood-distribution feature expansion improves geospatial prediction." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2026): 1–29. pdf · doi
Lyu, Wenbo, Shaoqing Dai, Yongze Song, et al. "Measuring causal strengths from spatial cross-sectional data with geographical cross mapping cardinality." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2026). pdf · doi
Luo, Peng, Yilong Wu, and Yongze Song. "Focal-Feature Regression Kriging." Geographical Analysis 58, no. 2 (2026): e70035. pdf · doi
Liu, Haiyang, Yongze Song, et al. "Degree of spatial interpretability." International Journal of Geographical Information Science 40, no. 9 (2026): 3068–3088. pdf · doi
Lyu, Wenbo, Yangyang Lei, Wen Yi, Yongze Song, et al. "Causal discovery in urban data with temporal empirical dynamic modeling: The R package tEDM." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 127 (2026): 102435. pdf · doi
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