Bio
Prof. Jianghao Wang now an associate professor in the State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is also a visiting research scientist at Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Center for Real Estate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also He is the co-founder of Beijing City Lab, an open research network for quantitative urban studies and policy. Jianghao’s research interests are in geographic information science, urban big data. He has published over forty peer reviewed journal articles, including Nature Human Behaviour, One Earth, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Urban Studies, Regional Studies. He has completed or been undertaking research projects granted or entrusted by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High Technology Research and Development Program of China, among others. His most recent research focus on modelling the effect of global change (climate climate and air pollution) on human behaviors through the analytical lens of emerging geospatial big data.

Positions and Employment

1.2017–now: Associate Professor, Beijing, China. State Key Laboratory of Resources & Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2.2019.4–2020.8: Research Scientist, Sustainable Urbanization Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
3.2015–2017: Assistant Professor, Beijing, China. State Key Laboratory of Resources & Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4.2017–now: Associate Professor, Beijing, China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Education
1.2010-2014 Ph.D, Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
2.2007-2010 M.Sc, Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
3.2003-2017 B.Sc, Hohai University, Nanjing, China.
Other Experience

1.2017.6–2019 Research Affiliate, China Future City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA.
2.2013–now Associate Directors, Beijing City Lab, Beijing, China.
3.2012.9–11 Visiting student, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Department of Soil Geography and Landscape & ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen University

Professional Memberships
1.committee member of Urban Big Data Special Committee, Chinese Society for Urban Studies
2.secretary of general Resources Mapping Special Committee, China Society of Natural Resources
3.member of American Association of Geographers (AAG)
4.member of The Geographical Society of China
5.member of China Computer Society

Honors
1.2019  Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2.2017  Youth Talent Scientist Innovation Program in Remote Sensing, Chinese Ministry ofScience and Technology
3.2015 Youth Scholar Nomination Paper Award, The 4th International Workshop onRegional, Urban and Spatial Economics in China

Research Projects (PI)
  2020-2023 Youth Innovation Promotion Association Funding, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  2020-2023 The effect of air pollution on urbanites behaviour and expressed sentiment:Spatio-temporal big data approach, The National Natural Science Foundation of China, (No. 41971409).
  2018-2019 Novel Measures of Air Pollution’s Social Costs in China: Big Data Analysis, MISTI Global Seed Funds, Co-PI with Prof Siqi Zheng @ MIT CFC Lab.
  2017–2019 Research on space-time geostatistical model-based ecological environment monitoring network optimization, The National Natural Science Foundation of China, (No. 41601427).
  2016–2020 Key Theory and Method for Validation of Land Surface Remote Sensing Products - Project 1: Theory and Methods, The Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, (No. 41531174).
  2016–2017 Research on Human Mobility Pattern in Multiple Spatial Scales Through Geotagged Social Media Network, Open Research Fund Program of Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen University.
  2015–2017 Geographic Knowledge Integrated Spatio-Temporal Mapping, LREIS, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Selected Publications
  Complete List of Published Work in Google Scholar.  * represent correpondence author,  means contribute equally.
  Wang, J.*, Obradovich, N.*, & Zheng, S. (2020). A 43-million-person investigation into climate change and expressed sentiment. One Earth.
  Zheng, S. , Wang, J. , Sun, C., Zhang, X., & Kahn, M. E. (2019). Air pollution lowers Chinese urbanites’ expressed happiness on social media. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(3), 237.
  Wu, W., Wang, J.*, Dai, T., & Wang, X. (2018). The Geographical Legacies of Mountains: Impacts on Cultural Difference Landscapes. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(1), 277-290.
  Wu, W., Wang, J.*, & Dai, T. (2016). The geography of cultural ties and human mobility: Big data in urban contexts. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(3), 612-630.
  Wang, J., Deng, Y., Song, C., & Tian, D. (2016) Measuring time accessibility and its spatial characteristics in the urban areas of Beijing. Journal of Geographical Sciences 26 (12), 1754-1768.
  Wang, J., Ge, Y., Heuvelink, G., & Zhou, C. (2015). Upscaling in situ soil moisture observations to pixel averages with spatio-temporal geostatistics. Remote Sensing, 7(9), 11372-11388.
  Wang, J., Ge, Y., Song, Y., & Li, X. (2014). A geostatistical approach to upscale soil moisture with unequal precision observations. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 11(12), 2125-2129.
  Wang, J., Ge, Y., Heuvelink, G. B., Zhou, C., & Brus, D. (2012). Effect of the sampling design of ground control points on the geometric correction of remotely sensed imagery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 18, 91-100.

Contact:

Jianghao Wang
Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
11A Datun Rd.
Beijing, P.R. China, 100101
Email: wangjh@lreis.ac.cn
Website: http://jianghao.wang