I am an Associate Professor at School of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China. I earned the doctoral degree in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC). I have received Master of Science in Mathematical Finance, Computational Finance Concentration and Financial Data Analytics Concentration from UNCC. My research interests are big data for spatial goverance, GIScience, spatial modeling and analysis, reginoal analysis and urban studies, machine learning, and cyber-enabled high-performance and parallel computing. I have some publications in the areas of spatial cyberinfrastructure, spatial statistics, agent-based modeling, and geocoding. Also, I have actively presented at several conferences, such as the International Congress on Social Science and Business, the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, and the Southeastern Association of American Geographers. I am also interested in data mining and database technologies, I received the Graduate Certificate in Advanced Databases and Knowledge Discovery at the Department of Computing Science at UNCC. |