Professor Jing Yao
- Professor of Urban Analytics (Urban Studies & Social Policy)
telephone:
01413302368
email:
Jing.Yao@glasgow.ac.uk
Urban Big Data Centre, 7 Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK G12 8RZ
Biography
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Dr Jing Yao (姚 静) joined University of Glasgow as a lecturer in Urban Big Data and Quantitative Methods at the UK ESRC-funded Urban Big Data Centre in October, 2014. She has a PhD in Geography and a MSc in Industrial Engineering both from Arizona State University (ASU), USA. She also has a MSc degree and a BSc degree in Geographical Information System (GIS) from Nanjing University, China. Previously she worked as a postdoctoral associate at GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation at ASU in the US and a research fellow at Centre for Geoinformatics at University of St Andrews in UK.
Research interests
Jing’s research interests cover a wide range of areas in geographic information science, including spatial analysis, spatial statistics, spatial modeling, and spatial optimization, etc. Currently, she focuses on developing quantitative methods for spatially integrated analysis and modeling and particularly their applications in social science and health research. Also, she is interested in spatial optimization and decision making, including facility location modeling, regionalization and land use optimization.
- Geographical Information Science
- Spatial Optimization
- Spatial Statistics
- Location Modeling
- GeoAI
- Health Geography
- Regional Science
- Urban and Regional Planning and development
Research groups
- Socio-Environmental Action
- Place & the Built Environment
- Urban Analytics
Grants
- 2023-2025. PI. A Big Data Approach to Remotely Tracking Global Rangeland Condition Changes. The Royal Society, £11,970.
- 2023. PI. Internal Funding for NERC Supporting Interdisciplinarity in Discovery Science. University of Glasgow, £8,791.
- 2021-2023. PI. Towards a Healthy Urban Environment: Post-pandemic Urban Public Space Planning, Design and Management. The Royal Society of Edinburgh, £9,800.
- 2019-2024. Co-I. Urban Big Data Centre. ESRC.
- 2017-2021. Co-I. GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC). GCRF Research Councils UK Collective Fund.
- 2017-2019. Co-I. EuroGEOSS-Hub: the European approach to Data Hub for GEOSS. Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme. European Commission.
- 2016. Postdoctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchanges Funds. Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society, £2,500.
- 2016-2019. Co-I. The Re-Making of Chinese Urban Neighbourhoods: Socio-Spatial Transformation and Access to Public Services. ESRC.
- 2015. Glasgow-Nankai Research Exchange Grant. University of Glasgow, £1,500.
- 2013-2015. PI. Spatial Optimization Approaches for Solving the Continuous multi‐Weber Problem. National Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥230,000.
- 2013-2015. Co-I. Continuous Geographic Physical Process Model and its Integration with GIS. National Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥250,000.
Supervision
PhD students
- 2024- , Mr Haonan Lyu, lead supervisor
- 2024- , Mr Jiazhi Zhu, lead supervisor
- 2024- , Miss Xinyan Xian, second supervisor
- 2023- , Miss Huan Chen, lead supervisor
- 2023- , Mr Roland Shanks, second supervisor
- 2018 - 2022: Dr Weicong Luo, lead supervisor, “Measuring and Optimizing Accessibility to Emergency Medical Services”. (Assistant Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University, China)
- 2018 - 2019: Dr Yuhao Jin (visiting student from Sun Yat-sen University from China). (Associate Professor, South China Agricultural University, China)
Visiting Scholars
- 2024.12-2025.12, Dr Danxia Song, Central China Normal University, China
- 2023.09-2024.08, Prof. Ming Yu, Fujian University of Technology, China
- 2023.09-2024.08, Prof. Zhanjun He, China University of Geosciences, China
- 2022.12-2023.12, Dr Qiuping Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China
- 2022.12-2023.02, Dr Yunxia Liu, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, China
- 2016.12-2017.12, Dr Xuemei Bi, the Center of Earthquake Emergency Technical Support, Earthquake Administration of Jiangsu, China
- 2016.01, Prof. Jing Wang, Wuhan University, China
- Xian, Xinyan
Optimization of Hybrid Truck-Drone Delivery Systems - Zhu, Jiazhi
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Teaching
Postgraduate
- Principles and Applications of GIS
- Programming with GIS
- Researching the City: Spatial Approaches
Training Courses at Urban Big Data Centre
- Introduction to R
- Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis
- Using R: Statistical Analysis
Research datasets
Additional information
Editorial Board Member
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science
- Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
- Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology
- Environmental Impact Assessment Review
- Geomatica
- Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science
Journal Reviewer (selected)
- International Regional Science Review
- Geographical Analysis
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- Journal of the Operational Research Society
- The Annals of Regional Science
- Applied Geography
Professional Society Membership
- Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (Council Member)
- Association of American Geographers
- Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society