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 obtained the M.Edegree with Honours and the B.E degree with Honours both from the School of Geography and Information Engineering of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2018 and 2015, respectively. I was a member of UbiLoc from 2013 to 2018.
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

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)

[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.
[2018-06-25] Qualified for the graduation from China Unviersity of Geosciences.
[2018-05-24] Defended my master thesis, titled with A Hierarchical Spatial Data Model for Map-matching Based Indoor Localization.