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PhD

University of Edinburgh

Landscape Architecture

Master of Engineering

Yunnan University

Architecture and Civil Engineering

Bachelor of Agriculture

Beijing Forestry University

Landscape Architecture

Postdoctoral Researcher in Urban Development and Design

Future Cities Lab Global, Singapore-ETH Centre

Reviewer

Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2025 (ETH Zurich)

Conference paper reviewer.

Reviewer

EDRA 56 (Halifax, Canada)

Conference paper reviewer.

Reviewer

CAAD Futures 2025 (University of Hong Kong)

Conference paper reviewer.

Young Editorial Board Member

The International Journal of Healthy Space

Editorial service on healthy space and urban wellbeing.

Young Professional Member

Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)

Professional membership and community engagement.

Third Places & Urban Vitality (Singapore)

• Causal inference & spatial modeling
• Network and big-data techniques

Emotional Responses to Site Planning Layouts

• Computer vision
• Multimodal sentiment analysis

Urban Green Space Perception in the Social Media Era

• BERTopic, CV
• Global dataset

Emotional responses to site planning layouts: A data-driven analysis using deep learning

CAAD Futures 2025: Selected Papers (Springer), forthcoming

Corresponding author; deep learning analysis of layout-induced emotional responses.

Spatial Drivers of Urban Industrial Agglomeration Using Street View Imagery and Remote Sensing: A Case Study of Shanghai

Land 14(8):1650

Corresponding author; integrates SVI and remote sensing to analyze industrial agglomeration patterns.

Photo-able Urban Green-Blue Spaces: Investigating Social Media Photographs of 186 Cities Worldwide

Edinburgh Architecture Research 38(2):49–64

Global social-media photo analysis to characterize urban green–blue spaces.

Investigating Correlations between the Use of Visual Social Media, Urban Green Space, and Subjective Well-Being: A Case Study in China

In: ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH: Global/Local Challenges and Actions (EDRA)

Explores relationships among social media use, UGS, and subjective wellbeing.

Research on the relationship between childhood place attachment and adult well-being

Landscape Architecture 29(2):112–118

Examines links between childhood place attachment and adult wellbeing.

Research on Ecotourism Carrying Capacity of the Belt and Road Heritage Corridor Based on State Space Model

Chinese Landscape Architecture 36:18–23

State-space modeling of ecotourism carrying capacity along heritage corridors.

Heritage Corridor Narrative Space System Research: Case on the Ancient Lancang-Mojiang Tea Horse Road

Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Architectural Engineering and Civil Engineering

Narrative space system approach to cultural heritage corridors.

Designing Healthy Urban Spaces in the Digital Era: Unveiling Preferences Through Social Media and Big Data

Sino-UK Bilateral Symposium on Healthy Design, Beijing, China

Invited talk / keynote.

Investigating Correlations between Visual Social Media, UGS, and Subjective Wellbeing

EDRA 54

Conference presentation.

Aesthetics of Digital Engagement: Landscape Preference and Everyday Use of Urban Green Space in the Age of Social Media

Exploring Landscape Boundaries Seminars, Estonian University of Life Sciences

Seminar presentation.

Gaze through social media: Spatio-temporal activities of photo-taking and photo-sharing in the city

OPENspace Research Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh

Seminar presentation.

CDE2501 Liveable Cities (Guest Reviewer)

National University of Singapore

Comparative Studies in Design and Culture (Guest Speaker)

City University of Macau

MSc Dissertation Tutor (Landscape & Wellbeing)

University of Edinburgh

Nana Kirk Travel Scholarship

Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)

Excellent Student Cadre Scholarship

Yunnan University

Innovative Design Award

National Competition of Planning and Design for College Students

Graduate Student Scholarships

Yunnan University & Beijing Forestry University