Email: xiaojiang.li@temple.edu
Bio
Xiaojiang is a tenure-track assistant professor at Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University, PA. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Senseable City Lab. His current research focuses on developing and applying geospatial analyses and data-driven approaches in the domain of urban studies. He has proposed to use Google Street View and machine learning for urban environmental studies and developed the Treepedia project, which aims mapping street greenery for cities around the world. He is also working on using human trace data to study human activities and investigate the connection between urban environments and human activities. Before that, he did his Ph.D. in Department of Geography, University of Connecticut. His research interests include GIScience, data-driven urban environment modeling, mobility and travel behavior profiling, urban computing and spatial analyses, and remote sensing. His research aims to provide a better understanding of human and urban environment systems and how geospatial data and computing could benefit human society. His work has been featured in popular media outlets, including TIME, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Forbes, Atlantic-Citylab, Associated Press, and MIT News.
Education and Employment
2019 - Present, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
2016 - 2019, MIT Senseable City Lab, Cambridge, MA
2013- 2016, Geography, Ph.D, Department of Geography, University of Connecticut, Storrs
2010-2013, M.S, Cartography and GIS, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Science
2006-2010, B.S, Environmental Science, Henan University
News
05/10, 2020, Present in Conference of The North America: Landscape Ecology, Toronto, Canada
04/06/2020, Present in Annual Conference of American Association of Geographers
01/09, 2020, Present in Symposium of Predicting neighborhood change using big data and machine learning at University of California, Berkeley.
10/26, 2019, Attend Annual Conference of Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Greenville, SC.
10/16, 2019, Attend the Spatial Data Science Conference, Columbia University, NY
4/25, 2019, Excited to get Microsft AI for Earth Grant.
3/10, 2019, I am delighted to announce that in July 2019, I will be joining the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University @TempleGUS as an Assistant Professor.
3/5, 2019, I gave a guest lecture at the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tuft University.
12/5/2018, I gave a guest lecture "Urban Sensing using Google Street View" and panel discussion at Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
