Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
School of Design and the Built Environment
Curtin University
Perth, 6102, WA, Australia
Email: yongze.song@curtin.edu.au

Dr. Yongze Song is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Doctoral Supervisor at Curtin University, Australia. He is a Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Fellow, United Kingdom, DAAD AInet Fellow, Germany, and a Publications Committee Member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG).

He has expertise in developing geospatial methods and implementing Earth data for sustainable infrastructure. He developed more than 16 new geospatial methods and 8 R software packages with over 110,000 downloads for understanding geographical and spatial data. He published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, including 6 highly-cited papers. He is a recipient of more than ten awards at international and national levels, such as the Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars, the Global Top 10 Young Scientist Award, and the Australian National Location Data First Prize.

He is an Editorial Board Member of over 10 international peer-reviewed journals, including GIScience & Remote Sensing, iScience, International Journal of Digital Earth, Remote Sensing, Geo-spatial Information Science, Annals of GIS, etc. He serves as a Guest Editor for journals of International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Science of Remote Sensing, etc. He serves as a Chair or Program Committee Member for international conferences held in Australia, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Norway, China, France, the United States, Canada, Iran, Vanuatu, and Greece. He serves 40 peer-reviewed journals as a reviewer. He was invited to present more than 60 research seminars at universities (e.g., Harvard University, Australian National University, National University of Singapore, Peking University, etc.) and industries globally.

Research Interests

Sustainable development, spatial statistics, geospatial theories, sustainable infrastructure, megaproject management

Leadership and Services

Leadership in International Academic Societies

• Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), United Kingdom
• DAAD AInet Fellow, Germany
• Committee Member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG)
• Member of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), WG IV/2

Leadership in the University

• Faculty Graduate Studies Committee (FGSC) Member, 2023-
• University Reviewer for Peer Review of Educational Practice (PREP), 2022-
• School Research Committee Member, 2023-
• Chair and Reviewer of the Milestone Oral Presentation of HDR students, 2022-
• Assistance for the ERA (Education Research Abstracts) development process for school, 2022
• Faculty Research Committee Member, 2021-2022

Editorial Experience

Associate Editor

• All Earth, Taylor & Francis. IF 2.750

Editorial Board Member

• GIScience & Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis. IF 6.238
• Geoscientific Model Development, European Geosciences Union. IF 6.892
• International Journal of Digital Earth, Taylor & Francis. IF 4.606
• Remote Sensing, MDPI. IF 5.349
• Geo-spatial Information Science, Taylor & Francis. IF 4.278
• Journal of Spatial Science, Taylor & Francis. IF 1.840
• Scientific Reports, Nature. IF 4.996
• Annals of GIS, Taylor & Francis.
• Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Elsevier.

Guest Editor

• iScience: Special Issue “GeoAI Shaping Earth and Cities: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges“
• Science of Remote Sensing: Special Issue “Wildfire Remote Sensing“
• Annals of GIS: Special Issue “Geospatial Big Data: Theory, Methods, and Applications“
• Remote Sensing: Special Issue “Remote Sensing for Mapping Global Land Surface Parameters“
• International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation: Special Issue “Recent Advances in Geocomputation and GeoAI for Mapping“
• Sustainable Earth: Article Collection “Earth Observation for Mapping Sustainability”
• Remote Sensing: Special Issue “Remote Sensing on Land Surface Albedo”

Research Team

• Team Members: 17 PhD, master, and honour students.

Awards

• Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars, 2023
• Special Thanks Award: The 35th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
• Global Young Scientist Award (Top 10), 2021
• Global Peer Review Award: Top reviewers in Geosciences (Top 1%) and Top reviewers in Cross-field (Top 1%), Publons, 2020
• Chancellor’s Award for Exceptionally High Standard in the PhD Thesis, Curtin University, 2019
• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (Top 0.1% Globally), 2019
• National Honourable Mention: Exploring the Oceans Award, GovHack, Australia, 2018
• National Honourable Mention: STEM Award, GovHack, Australia, 2017
• Australian National First Prize: Location Data First Prize, GovHack, Australia, 2016

Chair or Committee Member for International Conferences

Conferences in over 10 countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Norway, China, France, the United States, Canada, Iran, Vanuatu, and Greece.

• Conference Chair. City+2023@Perth International Conference, 8-10 September 2023, Perth, Australia
• Chair of Session “Spatial Association”, IAMG 2023 (22nd Annual Conference), the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Aug. 5-12, 2023, Trondheim, Norway
• Chair of Topics Webinar EO&GEO Series: GIS in the Management of Sustainable and Smart Cities, journals of Remote Sensing, Drones, ISPRS IJGI, and Land, 9 March 2023
• Logistics Chair. The 35th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 5-8, December 2022, Perth, Australia
• Chair of Session “Ethical Artificial Intelligence”, The 35th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 5-8, December 2022, Perth, Australia
• Chair of Session “Spatial Association”, IAMG 2022 (21st Annual Conference), the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Aug. 29-Sep. 3, 2022, Nancy, France
• Chair of Session “Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations”, 2022 AAG Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers, Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 2022, New York City, United States
• Keynote Speaker. The Fifth International Workshop on Environment and Geoscience (IWEG2022), 16-18 July 2022, China
• Program Committee Member. GIScience 2023: The 12 International Conference on Geographic Information Science. 12 – 15th September, 2023. Leeds, UK.
• Program Committee Member. The 12^th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ 2023), The ISPRS 2023 Geospatial Week, 2-7, September 2023, Cario, Egypt
• Program Committee Member. IAMG 2023 (22nd Annual Conference), the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Aug. 5-12, 2023, Trondheim, Norway
• Program Committee Member. AGILE 2023 (the 26rd Conference), the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE), 13-16 June 2023, Delft, Netherlands
• Program Committee Member. 7th Smart Data and Smart Cities Conference & 17th 3DGeoinfo Conference, 19 – 21 October 2022, Sydney, Australia
• Program Committee Member. Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modelling, 2022 AAG Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers, Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 2022, New York City, United States
• Program Committee Member. 7th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Transportation Engineering (ICCSTE’22), 5-7 June, 2022, Niagara Falls, Canada
• Program Committee Member. Geospatial Conference 2022, ISPRS International Joint Conferences, 15-18 Oct, 2022, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
• Special Issue Coordinator. World Building Congress (WBC2022), and The 9th International Conference on Innovative Production and Construction (IPC2022), Joint Conference, 27-30 June 2022, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
• Program Committee Member. AGILE 2021 (the 24rd Conference), the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE), 8-11 June, 2021, Crete, Greece
• Special Issue Coordinator. Pacific Islands GIS & RS Conference 2021 (PGRSC-2021), The Pacific GIS & Remote Sensing Council, 22-23 November, 2021, Port Vila, Vanuatu

Reviewer for Books (Publishers):

• John Wiley & Sons. https://www.wiley.com/en-us

Reviewer for Refereed Journals, A – Z:

1. Annals of GIS
2. Annals of the American Association of Geographers
3. AIMS Mathematics
4. Applied Sciences
5. Asian Geographer
6. Austrian Journal of Statistics
7. Big Earth Data
8. Buildings
9. Built Environment Project and Asset Management
10. Complexity
11. Computers and Geosciences
12. Energies
13. Environmental Earth Sciences
14. Environmental Impact Assessment Review
15. Environmental Research Communications
16. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
17. Environmental Science & Technology
18. GIScience & Remote Sensing
19. Heliyon
20. IEEE Access
21. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
22. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
23. Information Sciences
24. International Journal of Digital Earth
25. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
26. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
27. International Journal of Geographical Information Science
28. International Journal of Green Energy
29. International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology
30. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
31. Journal of Cleaner Production
32. Journal of Environmental Management
33. Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization
34. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
35. Nature Communications
36. PLOS One
37. R Journal
38. Remote Sensing
39. Remote Sensing of Environment
40. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
41. Resources, Conservation & Recycling
42. Science of The Total Environment
43. Sensors
44. Sustainability
45. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
46. Sustainable Cities and Society
47. Transactions in GIS