NAME: Zhihang Liu
Email: zhihang.liu@tum.de

Research Interests

Complexity, Big Geospatial Data, Urban Computing, Complex Networks, Computational Social Science

Education

• Department of Aerospace and Geodesy, Professorship for Big Geospatial Data Management
• Research Direction: Complexity & Complex Networks, Auto ML
• Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Werner

• Research Direction: Regional complex systems simulation & Reinforcement Learning

• Research Direction: Urban Computing

• Research Direction: Computational Social Science

• Guest Researcher, Department of Aerospace and Geodesy, Technical University of Munich;
• UK Study Abroad Programme (Full Scholarship), LSE, Cambridge, Oxford, UoM;
• CSC Excellent Undergraduate International Exchange Program, The University of Seoul;

Skills

Computer
• Data Analysis, Graphics, Modelling and Simulation, Python (TensorFlow, PyTorch), R, Matlab, JavaScript, HTML, Julia, ArcGIS, NetLogo, GEE

Research Methods
• Machine Learning (Interpretable ML, Graph ML)
• Deep learning (MDRL, CV, NLP)
• Complex networks (Topology, Dynamics, Multilayer)
• Spatial algorithms
• Web spider & Geospatial web data visualization
• Advanced Statistics

Language
• English (Fluent)
• Chinese (Native)

Academic Experience

Working Papers
• “Nonlinear effects of the multimodal travel between public transit and bicycle-sharing accounting for spatial heterogeneity” (accepted by IACP2022)
• “Analysis of urban economic resilience after COVID-19 through percolation in multilayer complex networks” (accepted by IACP2022)
• “How do the spatial mobility and economic model shape shop sign landscape? Based on street view images and deep learning”

Awards & Scholarship

Awards
• Excellent Paper Award in First National Student Land Survey Competition of China Land Science Society 2021 • Second Prize of the 16th Challenge Cup Guangdong University Student’s Extra-curricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition (Provincial). 2021
• Outstanding Talents Training Program for Law and Political Science(excellence)
2017-2020
• Tsinghua University First Young Computational Social Scientist Award 2020
• National Top 100 in All-China Youth Federation's "Youth in China" Eighth Summer Social Research and Practice Activities for College Students 2020
• Second Prize of Excellent Paper of the 15th China Youth Development Forum of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League 2019

Scholarship
• Li Xuerou Foundation Scholarship of Sun Yat-sen University (top1%) 2021
• Professor Xia Shuzhang Scholarship of Sun Yat-sen University (top1%) 2021
• National Encouragement Scholarship (National) 2020
• Sun Yat-sen University Academic Innovation Scholarship (School) 2020
• China scholarship council Excellent Undergraduate International Exchange Scholarship (CSC) 2019
• Sun Yat-sen University UK Overseas Study Scholarship 2019
• National Encouragement Scholarship (Natiosnal) 2019
• Sun Yat-sen University Academic Scholarship 2019
• Sun Yat-sen University Fist Class Scholarship 2018