News Archive

AI4City Lab / STIC Updates

Recent progress from AI4City Lab and the Spatio-temporal Intelligence Center

This archive tracks publications, funded projects, invited talks, teaching activities, and awards related to urban spatio-temporal data sensing, multimodal intelligence, geospatial AI, and intelligent urban governance.

2022-2026Period 28Updates 5Categories
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RAMEN was published in Mathematics

Region-Adaptive Mixture of Ego-Networks for Multimodal Geospatial Fusion in Urban Region Representation advances multimodal geospatial fusion for urban region representation learning.

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UrbanMMCL was published in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

The paper introduces a multi-modal and multi-graph self-supervised contrastive learning framework for urban region representation, one of the lab's representative studies.

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Role

Promoted to Associate Professor at SZTU

Appointed Executive Director of the Spatio-temporal Intelligence Center and Deputy Head of the Department of Data Science.

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Talk

Oral presentation at SpatialDI 2026

Presented work on general-purpose region representation learning driven by multimodal urban sensing data at the 7th Conference on Spatial Data Intelligence.

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Invited talk at the AI and GIS Interdisciplinary Workshop

Delivered "Human-centered Urban Spatial Intelligence: Exploration and Reflection," discussing spatial intelligence for urban governance and public services.

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Sat2Flow was published at AAAI 2026

The paper proposes a structure-aware diffusion framework for generating human flows from satellite imagery.

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Fine-grained urban mobility dynamics paper was published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

The study models detailed urban mobility dynamics through large model-enhanced multimodal representations.

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Project

Guangdong Natural Science Foundation project started

The project studies multimodal deep features for urban spatial representation and intelligent decision-making.

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Talk

Invited talks at SIAT and Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School

Shared recent work on urban foundation models, multimodal fusion, and spatio-temporal representation learning.

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Presented at the 20th Annual Conference on GIS Theory and Methods

Presented studies on multimodal urban foundation models and exchanged ideas on urban representation learning.

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ST-camba was published in Information Fusion

SemiGPS was also published at ICASSP 2025, further advancing spatio-temporal multimodal fusion and geospatial intelligence.

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Teaching

Taught Foundations of Data Science

The course strengthens student capabilities in data analysis, modeling, and intelligent urban applications.

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Event

Presented at GIScience 2025 and the National Conference on Information Geography

Presented a poster on hourly urban dynamics and joined invited academic exchanges on information geography and urban intelligence.

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Project

Street-view image project for Greater Bay Area cities started

The industry project covers street-view image collection and processing for four cities, alongside large-scale trajectory flow data services.

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Urban economic mapping paper was published in ISPRS Journal

Urban representation learning for fine-grained economic mapping applies urban region representations to fine-scale socioeconomic mapping.

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Oral presentation at the National Virtual Geographic Environments Conference

Presented work on multimodal urban region sensing and representation.

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Talk at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Geographical Modeling and Geographic Information Analysis Committee

Shared research on multimodal urban region representation, sensing data fusion, and downstream applications.

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Teaching

University-level teaching reform project started

The project focuses on curriculum development for Data Science and Big Data Technology in application-oriented universities.

Teaching
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Study on nighttime lights and mobile phone footprints was published in CEUS

The paper compares nighttime light imagery and mobile phone footprints for characterizing urban socioeconomic activity.

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Award

Received the SZTU Runyuan Outstanding Teacher Award

The award recognizes teaching and research contributions at the university.

Biography
Project

Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation General Program project awarded

The project studies multimodal representation learning for urban agglomeration monitoring and evaluation.

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Hourly dynamics of mixed urban function paper was published in Information Fusion

The paper characterizes fine-scale temporal dynamics of mixed urban functions for urban function identification.

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Talk

Talk at the National Spatial Information Industry and International Standardization Conference

The talk discussed graph neural network-based urban region representation and downstream applications.

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Oral presentation at the Greater Bay Area Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing Conference

Presented work on multimodal urban region sensing and representation for Greater Bay Area applications.

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Award

Received multiple SZTU teaching and annual honors

Honors include Outstanding Communist Party Member, Excellent Faculty Member in Annual Assessment, and Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor.

Biography
Paper

Urban mobility scaling paper was published in Geo-spatial Information Science

The study examines scaling laws and spatial behavior patterns in urban mobility activity.

Publications
Project

Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation General Program project awarded

The project studies urban agglomeration functional synergy using deep learning and geography-flow dual perspectives.

Projects
Role

Joined Shenzhen Technology University

Joined the College of Artificial Intelligence as an Assistant Professor and began building research directions in urban spatial intelligence.

Biography