1st USI Research Fellowship Grant Symposium

Featured Speakers and Projects:

· Dr. Alec Kirkley

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, HKU

Project: Improving machine learning for urban mobility networks: Spatial constraints, Bayesian hierarchies, and scalable optimization algorithms

· Dr. Junxi Qian

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, HKU

Project: Sustainability experiments in urban China: Everyday negotiations, social-technical transitions, and situated environmental knowledge

· Dr. Xiaohu Zhang

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, HKU

Project: Strategic Pathways to Urban Innovation: A Smart Specialisation Framework for Hong Kong

· Dr. Weifeng Li

Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, HKU

Project: Understanding the inequality of community resilience to extreme weather events using mobile positioning data (INCREMENT)

· Dr. Tianren Yang

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, HKU

Project: Redefining workplace–residence choices and commuting in post-pandemic megacities

· Dr. Cui Guo

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, HKU

Project: Chronic health effects of ground-level carbon dioxide in adults: A 20-year cohort study in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Keynote Speaker:

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan

Professor of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK

Director, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science

Moderator:

Dr. Bin Chen

Assistant Director

Urban Systems Institute