Prof @NUSingapore & PI @urbanalyticslab • Alum @TUDelft3D • GIScience, urban informatics & digital twins

Singapore
Joined November 2014
Apply to our PhD opening in urban data science and geospatial technologies in our research group in Singapore! ✅ Submit an application directly to our NUS College of Design & Engineering here: cde.nus.edu.sg/graduate/grad…
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The openings are available below: Tenure-Track Professor/Associate Professor (2 Posts) in GeoAI, Remote Sensing, Land–Atmosphere/Ocean Interactions, or Human–Environment Interactions Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in GeoHealth Further details: jobs.hku.hk/en/job/532789/th…
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Check our new paper: Sensing climate justice: A multi-hyper graph approach for classifying urban heat and flood vulnerability through street view imagery, published in Sustainable Cities and Society: doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.1…
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Glad to conduct a research visit at the University of Tokyo 🇯🇵 @CSISut led by Prof Yoshihide Sekimoto and at his Lab. Many thanks for the generous hospitality and sharing the expertise, and to his research group and others at UTokyo for the warm welcome and engaging discussions
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A major Indonesian bank moved from Java to Rust and saw 486x boost in memory efficiency… bruh
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Did you know that Singapore has the second-tallest building ever demolished in the world? (The tallest is the World Trade Centre) What's behind Singapore's sky-high demolition spree? My latest story for The Straits Times unpacks the reasons behind our skyscraper tear-downs:
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Cities publishes a review paper by Yihan Zhu, Ye Zhang, and Filip Biljecki on understanding the user perspective on urban public spaces. The paper is available open access at doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.202…
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Cities publishes a paper on quantifying and analysing window views using images obtained from online real estate ads. The study, based on 3041 views, reveals that an increased proportion of water views has a significant positive effect on property prices. doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.202…
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SIX GRAPHS about the GIS research landscape....We are using more private / industry-created data sources over time. These are sourced from an analysis led by City Planning doctoral student Gabriel Appiah: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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TR-A publishes a paper by @KoichiIto12, @pb4222 & @fbiljecki on examining the causal relationships between street features & cycling mobility. It used historical street view imagery & cyclist counts to reveal the effects of urban design on 🚲 activities. doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2024.1…
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Cities publishes a new paper by Junjie Luo, Pengyuan Liu, Wenhui Xu, Tianhong Zhao, and Filip Biljecki that integrates human visual perceptions into urban digital twins. doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.202…
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🚲 New research alert! Can we prove that greenery & bike lanes actually increase cycling? My latest paper uses 10 years of London street view data to find out. 1/7
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We're developing urban digital twins that give more attention to human aspects. @JunjieLuo21 has built a prototype that integrates visual perception and sets the scene for automatically predicting the perception of various scenarios of new buildings before they are built.
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This method and implementation strives to enhance citizen participation and collaboration. More details are available in a paper that was just published in Cities: doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.202… co-authored w/ @Neil_Liu_2017, Wenhui Xu, and @Tianhong_zhao. Thanks for the collaboration!
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A paper by @FanZicheng from our @urbanalyticslab brings a new paradigm: urban sensing via Nighttime Street View Imagery (SVI) 🌃, drawing on the popularity and accomplishments of daytime SVI ☀️, and giving attention to its ignored nighttime counterpart🌛. doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.1…
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Thank you to Scott Simmons, Chief Standards Officer of the Geospatial Consortium (OGC) @opengeospatial, for visiting our research group. We have been an active member of the OGC for a long time, and we are glad to continue our involvement and collaboration. 🌐
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We are glad to host a delegation from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Indonesia 🇮🇩 for a workshop on urban digital twins. We exchanged experiences in research and teaching with faculty from the Department of Geodetic Engineering, led by the Head Prof Trias Aditya.
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On Mon 21 Oct, we're glad to host Dr @ElisabettaColu3 from Politecnico di Torino 🇮🇹. She will give a talk 'From Built Heritage 3D Spatial Documentation to National Hazards Maps: a multi-scale & multi-techniques research approach'. You're welcome to join! ual.sg/seminars/
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Global Streetscapes Dataset from National University of Singapore The researchers, led by @fbiljecki from NUS Urban Analytics Lab, have released a comprehensive dataset of 10 million street-level images across 688 cities for urban science and analytics.
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Happy to share that a book chapter of mine on Spatial Analysis in The Encyclopedia of Human Geography has been published 😃: dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031…. This entry provides a comprehensive overview of spatial analysis as a collection of contemporary techniques within Human Geography
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