Zhiyong Zhou

Zhiyong Zhou

GISer, Postdoc

University of Zurich

Biography

  • I am a postdoc at the GIScience Center of Department of Geography at University of Zurich, collaborating with Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel and Dr. Cheng Fu.
  • I hold a PhD degree in Geography from the University of Zurich, in Switzerland (defened on 20 June 2022), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Haosheng Huang and Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel, a M.E degree with Honours and a B.E degree with Honours at the School of Geography and Information Engineering of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2018 and 2015, respectively.
  • My work lies in the intersection of GIScience, spatial cognition, AI, and human-computer interaction. I am particularly interested in the computatioanl stuff for spatial problems in computers and the cognitive stuff from spatial tasks of humans.
Interests
  • Spatio-temporal theories and models
  • Spatial communication
  • Mobility and space
  • GeoAI for cartography
Education
  • PhD in GIScience, 2022

    University of Zurich

  • MEng in Cartography and Geographic Information Engineering, 2018

    China Unversity of Geosciences (Wuhan)

  • BEng in Geographic Information Systems, 2015

    China Unversity of Geosciences (Wuhan)

News

  • [2023-04-01] We are organizing the CartoAI workshop at GIScience 2023.

  • [2022-07-01] Start a new SNSF project, DeepGeneralization, as a postdoc.

  • [2022-06-20] Successfully defended my thesis, titled with Hierarchical modeling of indoor spaces: Towards route communication at multiple levels of detail for navigation in buildings.

  • [2022-03-19] Gave an invited talk in UPINLBS 2022 with Prof. Haosheng Huang.

  • [2021-12-18] Accepeted for a paper at Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.

  • [2021-11-23] Gave a presentation for the short paper in LBS 2021 Conference.

  • [2021-09-30] Gave a presentation for the short paper in GIScience 2021 Conference.

  • [2021-07-19] Accepted for a paper at Spatial Cognition and Computation.

  • [2021-06-18] Accepted for a paper at International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

  • [2020-11-30] Awarded the GRC Travel Grant by Graduate Campus at UZH.

  • [2019-05-28] Gave the PhD concept talk in the Department of Geography at UZH.

  • [2018-09-01] Joined the GIScience Center at University of Zurich.

Projects

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DeepGeneralization

DeepGeneralization

Utilizing Deep Learning in Map Generalization

PhD Project

PhD Project

Computational Hierarchy Modelling of Indoor Spaces

iSoNe

iSoNe

An Indoor Social Networking System

SmartENavi

SmartENavi

A Context-aware Indoor Emergency Navigation System

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