Xiuyuan Zhang
Research Associate
1. Academic Background
Current：
Research Associate, Peking University
2019.7-2021.08:
Boya Postdoctoral Fellowship, Peking University
2017.09-2018.09:
Visiting Fellow, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
2014.09-2019.07:
Ph. D., Cartography and Geography Information System, Peking University
2010.09-2014.07:
B.S., Science and Technology of Remote Sensing, China University of Geosciecnes (Wuhan)
2. Research Interests
Urban landscape modeling and living environment monitoring
Sustainable city and community development
3. Geographic Field Project
Current:
Multiscale structure zoning and multisystem function transformation for overall urban land planning, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 42001327), 240,000, PI.
A multiscale perspective of land-use-pattern influences on the quality of human settlements. China Postdoctoral Science Special Foundation (No. 2020T130005), 180,000, PI.
Researching the spatial differentiation and the relationship between convenience-of-living and public open landuses. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant (First class, No. 2019M660003), 120,000, PI.
Spatial-temporal cube model and calculation method for time-series image analysis. National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41871372), 580,000.
Evaluation on Sustainable Urban Human Settlement Using Spatiotemporal Big Data. The National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2021YFE0117100), 3990,000
Past:
Scene-oriented segmentation and semantic understanding of high resolution remote sensing images in urban areas. Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping Foundation (No. 201802), 20,000, PI.
Spatial scene information understanding based on relational semantics. National Natural Science Foundation. National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41471315), 870,000.
Scene segmentation and semantic understanding based on high resolution satellite images. WHW Original Research Funding (No. WHW201505), 30,000, PI.
4. Professional Services
Deputy Secretary-general, Youth Working Committee of Chinese Ecological Society
Guest Editor, Remote Sensing
Technical editor, Frontiers in Remote Sensing
Reviewer for top journals in the field: Remote Sensing of Environment, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, etc.
Co-organizer of Urban China Workshop (Boston)
Member of ACM and ACM SIGSPATIAL
5. Honors and Awards
GIS Up-and-coming Star Award
ACM SIGSPATIAL China Chapter Doctoral Dissertation Award (Only two in 2020, Ranking first)
Special Award in the 4th National Graduate Forum on remote sensing and GIS (Only four in 2016)
Excellent Post-Doctor Award of Peking University, 2019 (Only one in our school)
Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Peking University, 2019 (Only one in department)
Academic Star Award of School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University (Ranking first)
Best Paper Award of the Institute of remote sensing and GIS, Peking University, 2018
First-prize of the first Peking University Graduate Forum on remote sensing and GIS (Ranking first)
Second-prize and Best Demeanor Award in the 9th National Youth Remote Sensing Debate Competition
Third-prize Award of the 4th National College Student GIS Skills Competition (Advanced)
6. Selected Publications
l Zhang, X., & Du, S. (2015), A Linear Dirichlet Mixture Model for decomposing scenes: Application to analyzing urban functional zonings, Remote Sensing of Environment, 169, 37-49. IF=10.16, Q1
l Zhang, X., & Du, S. (2016). Learning selfhood scales for urban land cover mapping with very-high-resolution satellite images. Remote Sensing of Environment, 178, 172-190. IF=10.16, Q1
l Zhang, X., Du, S., & Wang, Q. (2018). Integrating bottom-up classification and top-down feedback for improving urban land-cover and functional-zone mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment, 212, 231-248. IF=10.16, Q1
l Zhang, X., Du, S., Du, S., & Liu, B. (2020). How do land-use patterns influence residential environment quality? A multiscale geographic survey in Beijing. Remote Sensing of Environment. 249, 112014. IF=10.16, Q1
l Zhang, X., Du, S., & Wang, Q. (2017). Hierarchical semantic cognition for urban functional zones with VHR satellite images and POI data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 132, 170-184. IF=8.98, Q1
l Zhang, X., Du, S., & Zhang, J. (2018). How do people understand convenience-of-living: a multiscale geographic investigation in Beijing. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 148, 87-102. IF=8.98, Q1
l Zhang, X., Du, S., & Zheng, Z. (2020). Heuristic sample learning for complex urban scenes: application to urban functional-zone mapping with VHR images and POI data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 161, 1-12. IF=8.98, Q1
l Zhang, X., Du, S., Wang, Q., & Zhou, W. (2018). Multiscale Geoscene Segmentation for Extracting Urban Functional Zones from VHR Satellite Images. Remote Sensing, 10(2), 281. IF=4.85, Q2
l Zhang, X., Du, S., & Wang, Y.-C. (2015). Semantic classification of heterogeneous urban scenes using intra-scene feature similarity and inter-scene semantic dependency. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 8(5): 2005-2014. IF=3.78, Q2
l Zhang, X., Du, S., & Zhang, Y. (2018). Semantic and Spatial Co-Occurrence Analysis on Object Pairs for Urban Scene Classification. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 11(8), 2630-2643. IF=3.78, Q2
l Zhang, X., & Du, S. (2019). Learning self-adaptive scale for extracting urban functional zones from VHR images. In International Geoscience and remote sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2019. IEEE. (EI)
l Rockli K., Avleen B., Xu, Y., Zhang, X., Blossom, C., J., Swaminathan, A., King, G., Kumar, A., Sarwal, R., Lavista Ferres, M., J., Subramanian, V., S. (2021). Precision mapping child undernutrition for nearly 600,000 inhabited census villages in India, Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 118(18), e2025865118. IF=11.21, Q1
