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 B.E degree with Honours and the M.E degree with Honours both from the School of Geography and Information Engineering of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). I was a member of UbiLoc from 2013 to 2018.
My major research field is in GIScience, focusing on wayfinding and navigation, computaional place modeling, and spatial data science.

Interests

Education

PhD in GIScience, 2022 (expected)
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)

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