个人简介

刘信陶，副教授。2012年毕业于瑞典皇家工学院地理信息学专业，获博士学位，随后在加拿大多伦多都会大学（前瑞尔森大学）任博士后和临时讲师，2016年8月入职香港理工大学担任助理教授。主要从事地理信息，城市科学，交通地理以及复杂科学等理论研究，其研究目标是运用现代技术，推动智慧城市发展，提高城市生活质量。

目前发表论文70余篇（包括AAG，IJGIS, Earth-Science Reviews等期刊），主持国家自然科学基金面上项目、香港研究资助局、香港创新及科技基金、香港公共政策研究资助计划、香港理工大学等科研项目10余项。担任国际城市信息学期刊执行编辑，国际城市信息学协会秘书，国际制图协会地理建模分析委员会副主席等国际学术组织职务。

代表性科研课题

1.虚拟现实空间人类活动融合的城市结构动态建模研究 (42171455), 国家自然科学基金面上项目, 2022-2025年, 主持，在研。

2.Modelling human interactions in physical and virtual spaces using multilayer approaches (15204121), 香港研究资助局GRF, 2022-2024年, 主持，在研。

3.Towards a digital-twin system for smart mobility for people with disabilities (PwDs) using multi-data sensing and big data analytics (P0038289), 香港理工大学可持续发展研究院，2021 - 2024, 主持，在研。

4.User satisfaction-based urban freight sharing optimization using crowdsourced big data and machine learning (25203419), 香港研究资助局ECS, 2020 - 2022, 主持，结项。

5.Development of Web GIS for disaster analysis and prediction, 香港创新及科技基 Innovation and Technology Support Programme - Tier 2, 2017 - 2019, 主持，结项。

代表论文及著作

1.Chen M, Claramunt C, Çöltekin A, Liu X*, Peng P, Robinson AC, Wang D, Strobl J, Wilson J, Batty M, Kwan MP, et al. Artificial intelligence and visual analytics in geographical space and cyberspace: Research opportunities and challenges. Earth-Science Reviews. 2023, 26:104438.

2.Liu X, Chen M, Claramunt C, Batty M, Kwan MP, Senousi AM, Cheng T, Strobl J, Arzu C, Wilson J, Bandrova T, et al. Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective. The Innovation. 2022, 3(5):100279.

3.Zhang J, Liu X*, Tan X, Jia T, Senousi AM, Huang J, Yin L, Zhang F. Nighttime vitality and its relationship to urban diversity: an exploratory analysis in Shenzhen, China. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 2021, 15:309-22.

4.Liu X, Wu J, Huang J, Zhang J, Chen BY, Chen A. Spatial-interaction network analysis of built environmental influence on daily public transport demand. Journal of Transport Geography. 2021, 92:102991.

5.Liu X, Huang J, Lai J, Zhang J, Senousi AM, Zhao P. Analysis of urban agglomeration structure through spatial network and mobile phone data. Transactions in GIS. 2021, 25(4):1949-69.

6.Yu Z, Liu X*. Urban agglomeration economies and their relationships to built environment and socio-demographic characteristics in Hong Kong. Habitat International. 2021, 117:102417.

7.Liu X, Shi W, Zhang A. Advances in urban informatics. Environment and planning B: urban analytics and city science. 2021, 48(3):395-9.

8.Liu X, Yan WY, Chow JY. Time-geographic relationships between vector fields of activity patterns and transport systems. Journal of Transport Geography. 2015, 42:22-33.

9.Liu X, Jiang B. Defining and generating axial lines from street center lines for better understanding of urban morphologies. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2012, 26(8):1521-32.

10.Jiang B, Liu X. Scaling of geographic space from the perspective of city and field blocks and using volunteered geographic information. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2012, 26(2):215-29.