Hi! I am Yuhao KANG(康雨豪), an assistant professor in GIScience at the Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in GIScience and Cartography at the GeoDS Lab, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, supervised by Prof. Song Gao. I got a bachelor's degree from the Department of Geo-Information Science (GIS), School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University. I had working experience at the University of South Carolina, MIT Senseable City Lab, Google X, and MoBike (now Meituan-Dianping). My research interests include Human-centered Geospatial Data Science, GIScience, Place-based GIS, GeoAI, Cartography, Urban Computing, and Social Sensing. I am interested in all technologies that are innovative and life-changing. In addition, I founded the non-profit organization GISphere, co-founded the Urban Playground Lab at Wuhan University, and a technology company MicroDeepMind.

Short CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.S. in Cartography/GIS, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.S. in Geographical Information Science, Wuhan University

Experience

• Aug. 2024 - Director, GISense Lab, Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin
• Aug. 2023 - June 2024, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina
• Sep. 2023 - June 2024, Associate Director, Center for GIScience and Geospatial Big Data (CeGIS), University of South Carolina
• Jan. 2024 - June 2024, Co-Leader, Social Media Core, USC Big Data Health Science Center, University of South Carolina
• Summer 2023, Postdoctoral Researcher, Senseable City Lab, MIT
• Summer 2021 - Present, Research Assistant, Senseable City Lab, MIT
• Nov. 2020 - June 2021, Research Associate, Google X
• Visiting Student, Senseable City Lab, MIT
• Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Mobike (now Meituan-Dianping)
• Research Assistant, Peking University

Teaching Experience

• Spring 2024 - Lecturer, Geog 105: Digital Earth
• Spring 2024 - Lecturer, Geog 556: WebGIS and Geovisualization
• Fall 2023 - Lecturer, Geog 564: GIS-based Modeling
• Fall 2021 - Lecturer, Geog 560: Advanced Quantitative Analysis
• Spring 2022 - Teaching Assistant, Geog 573: Advanced Geocomputing & Geospatial Big Data Analytics
• Spring 2021 - Teaching Assistant, Geog 573: Advanced Geocomputing & Geospatial Big Data Analytics
• Spring 2020 - Teaching Assistant, Geog 573: Advanced Geocomputing & Geospatial Big Data Analytics

Contact Information

Email: yuhao.kang@austin.utexas.edu

Google Scholar: Yuhao Kang Profile

LinkedIn: Yuhao Kang Profile

Twitter: Yuhao Kang

Zhihu: 康雨豪

Hobbies

During my leisure time, I like playing sports such as soccer (A fan of Manchester United), skiing, badminton, and watching American football (Badgers and Packers).

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