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1. GEO 514: GIS and Machine Learning (Spring 2024, at University at Buffalo)

8. Oral presentation (2024): PyGRF: An improved Python Geographical Random Forest     model and case studies in public health and natural disasters, 2024 Esri User     Conference: Innovations in GI Science, July 15-19, 2024, San Diego, California, USA.
7. Poster presentation (2024): GALLOC: A GeoAnnotator for Labeling LOCation     descriptions from disaster-related text messages, 2024 CaGIS + UCGIS Symposium,     June 3-6, 2024, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
6. Oral presentation (2023): GALLOC: A GeoAnnotator for Labeling LOCation descriptions     from disaster-related text messages, the 4th Spatial Data Science Symposium,     September 5-6, 2023, Online.
5. Oral presentation (2023): GALLOC: A GeoAnnotator for Labeling LOCation descriptions     from disaster-related text messages, International Symposium on Location-Based Big     Data and GeoAI, August 12, 2023, Online.
4. Oral presentation (2022): Geospatial data ontology: the semantic foundation of     geospatial data integration and sharing, International Training Workshop on     Resource & Environment Scientific Data Sharing and Disaster Risk Reduction     Knowledge Service along the Belt and Road, November 20-24, 2022, Online.
3. Oral presentation (2022): Aligning geographic entities from historical maps based on     spatial mapping transformation, the 5th International Conference on Big Earth Data,     November 12-13, 2022, Online.
2. Oral presentation (2021): Geospatial data ontology: the semantic foundation of     geospatial data integration and sharing, the 19th International Conference on Spatial     Data Handling and Geographic Intelligence, August 13-14, 2021, Online.
1. Oral presentation (2015): Morphology-Ontology of Geospatial Data and its     Application in Data Discovery, the 23rd International Conference on Geoinformatics,     June 19-21, 2015, Wuhan, China.

Peer Reviewer for Academic Journals

• International Journal of Geographical Information Science
• Transactions in GIS
• Information Processing and Management
• International Journal of Digital Earth
• GIScience & Remote Sensing
• Computers & Geosciences
• Journal of Earth Science
• Journal of Geographical Systems
• ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
• PLOS ONE
• Remote Sensing
• Sustainability
• Buildings

5. ICA Scholarship, By International Cartographic Association (ICA), 2024
4. Excellent Graduate, by Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources     Research, 2021
3. Doctoral Fellowship, by Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources     Research, 2018, 2019
2. Joint Ph.D. Student Scholarship, by China Scholarship Council, 2018
1. Undergraduate Fellowship, by Wuhan University, 2011, 2012