Senior Lecturer (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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Dr. Yongze Song is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Doctoral Supervisor at Curtin University, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), United Kingdom, 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 15 new geospatial methods and 8 R software packages with over 100,000 downloads for understanding geographical and spatial data. He published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, including 5 highly-cited papers. He is a recipient of more than ten awards at international and national levels, such as the Global Top 10 Young Scientist Award and the Australian National Location Data First Prize.

He is an Editorial Board Member of 7 international peer-reviewed journals, including GIScience & Remote Sensing (IF 6.397), iScience (IF 6.107), Annals of GIS, Remote Sensing (IF 5.349), Geo-spatial Information Science (IF 4.278), etc. He serves as a Guest Editor for 6 journals, such as Science of Remote Sensing, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (IF 7.672), 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 40 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

Developed Open-Source Geospatial Software (100,000+ downloads)

Leadership and Services

Leadership in Academic Societies

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

Editorial Experience

• Editorial Board Member. GIScience & Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis. IF 6.238
• Editorial Board Member. iScience, Cell Press. IF 6.107
• Editorial Board Member. Geo-spatial Information Science, Taylor & Francis. IF 4.278
• Editorial Board Member. Remote Sensing, MDPI. IF 5.349
• Editorial Board Member. Scientific Reports, Nature. IF 4.996
• Editorial Board Member. Annals of GIS, Taylor & Francis.
• Editorial Board Member. Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Elsevier.
• Managing Guest Editor. iScience: Special Issue “GeoAI Shaping Earth and Cities: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges“
• Guest Editor. Annals of GIS: Special Issue “Geospatial Big Data: Theory, Methods, and Applications“
• 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: 17 PhD, master, and honour students.

Awards

• 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/Committee Member for International Conferences in over 10 countries

Conferences in 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
• 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. 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. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
29. Nature Communications
30. PLOS One
31. R Journal
32. Remote Sensing
33. Remote Sensing of Environment
34. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
35. Resources, Conservation & Recycling
36. Science of The Total Environment
37. Sensors
38. Sustainability
39. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
40. Sustainable Cities and Society
41. Transactions in GIS