Zhiyong Zhou

Biography

My name is Zhiyong Zhou, a Ph.D. student at the GIScience Center of Department of Geography at University of Zurich. My advisors are Prof. Dr. Haosheng Huang and Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel.
I hold the B.E degree with Honours and the M.E degree with Honours in the Faculty of Information and Engineering of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). I was a member of UbiLoc from 2013 to 2018.
My major research field is wayfinding and navigation, human-centered computing, and spatial data science. Currently, I am working on computational modelling of indoor spaces for human-centered navigation guidance.

MEng in Cartography and Geographic Information Engineering, 2018
China Unversity of Geosciences
BEng in Geographic Information Systems, 2015
China Unversity of Geosciences

[2019/10/09] I presented the initial results of my first part of PhD project in GIScience internal group meeting.
[2019/05/28] I gave the PhD concept talk in the GISicence colloquium of Department of Geography in UZH.
[2018/09/01] I joined the GIScience Center, University of Zurich. I will work on the IndoorLBS project under the advise of Dr. Haosheng Huang and Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel.
[2018/06/25] I was qualified for graduation from China Unviersity of Geosciences (Wuhan) with the title Outstanding Graduates and was awarded the Degree of Master of Engineering.
[2018/05/24] I defended my master thesis! Defense talk is titled A Hierarchical Spatial Data Model for Map-matching Based Indoor Localization.