Research Interests
  • Spatial analysis, spatial statistics, geospatial methods
  • Sustainable infrastructure, construction management
  • Machine learning, big data
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.
  • Editorial Board Member. Scientific Reports, Nature
  • Managing Guest Editor. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation: Special Issue “Recent Advances in Geocomputation and GeoAI for Mapping“
  • Managing Guest Editor. Remote Sensing: Special Issue “Remote Sensing for Mapping Global Land Surface Parameters”
  • 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”
Conference Committee Member and Session Chair
  • Chair of Session “Scale and Spatial Associations”, IAMG 2022 (21st Annual Conference), the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Aug. 29-Sep. 3, 2022, Nancy, France
  • Chair of Session “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. 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 Refereed Journals, A – Z:
  1. Annals of GIS
  2. Applied Sciences
  3. Asian Geographer
  4. Big Earth Data
  5. Buildings
  6. Complexity
  7. Computers and Geosciences
  8. Energies
  9. Environmental Impact Assessment Review
  10. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
  11. Environmental Science & Technology
  12. GIScience & Remote Sensing
  13. Heliyon
  14. IEEE Access
  15. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  16. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  17. Information Sciences
  18. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  19. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
  20. International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology
  21. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  22. Journal of Cleaner Production
  23. Journal of Environmental Management
  24. Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization
  25. Remote Sensing
  26. Remote Sensing of Environment
  27. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  28. Resources, Conservation & Recycling
  29. Science of The Total Environment
  30. Sensors
  31. Sustainability
  32. Sustainable Cities and Society
  33. Transactions in GIS