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

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Leadership in Academic Societies

• Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), United Kingdom
• Publications Committee Member of International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG)

Editorial Experience

• Editorial Board Member. GIScience & Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis. IF 6.238
• Editorial Board Member. Annals of GIS, Taylor & Francis.
• Editorial Board Member. iScience, Cell Press. IF 6.107
• Editorial Board Member. Scientific Reports, Nature. IF 4.996
• Editorial Board Member (ECR). Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Elsevier.
• Managing Guest Editor. iScience: Special Issue “GeoAI Shaping Earth and Cities: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges“
• Managing Guest Editor. Science of Remote Sensing: Special Issue “Wildfire Remote Sensing“
• Managing Guest Editor. Remote Sensing: Special Issue “Remote Sensing for Mapping Global Land Surface Parameters“
• Managing Guest Editor. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation: Special Issue “Recent Advances in Geocomputation and GeoAI for Mapping“
• Managing Guest Editor. Sustainable Earth: Article Collection “Earth Observation for Mapping Sustainability”
• Managing Guest Editor. Remote Sensing: Special Issue “Remote Sensing on Land Surface Albedo”

Research Team

• Team Members: 13 PhD, master, and honour students.

Research Interests

• Spatial analysis, spatial statistics, geospatial methods
• Sustainable infrastructure, construction management
• Machine learning, big data

Awards

• 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

Conference Committee Member and Session Chair

• Chair of Session “Spatial Associations”, 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. 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
• 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. 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
• 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. AIMS Mathematics
3. Applied Sciences
4. Asian Geographer
5. Austrian Journal of Statistics
6. Big Earth Data
7. Buildings
8. Complexity
9. Computers and Geosciences
10. Energies
11. Environmental Impact Assessment Review
12. Environmental Research Communications
13. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
14. Environmental Science & Technology
15. GIScience & Remote Sensing
16. Heliyon
17. IEEE Access
18. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
19. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
20. Information Sciences
21. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
22. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
23. International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology
24. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
25. Journal of Cleaner Production
26. Journal of Environmental Management
27. Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization
28. Nature Communications
29. Remote Sensing
30. Remote Sensing of Environment
31. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
32. Resources, Conservation & Recycling
33. Science of The Total Environment
34. Sensors
35. Sustainability
36. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
37. Sustainable Cities and Society
38. Transactions in GIS