Bin Chen, Ph.D. (陈斌)
Assistant Professor, Division of Landscape Architecture
Faculty of Architecture | The University of Hong Kong
Email: binley.chen@hku.hk
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Dr. Bin Chen is a geospatial big data scientist and environmental remote sensing researcher. He has been broadly trained in geospatial science and environmental science. He is passionate about tackling a range of pressing local, regional, and global environmental change challenges using exceptional quantitative, analytical, and computational skills, with the ultimate goal of contributing to a sustainable and healthy world.
Education:
- Ph.D. Global Environmental Change, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 2017
- B.S. Geographic Information System, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 2013
Appointment:
- Assistant Professor Division of Landscape Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 03/2021 –
- Postdoc. Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, USA, 08/2017 – 02/2021
Research Interests:
- Remote Sensing and Data-Model Fusion
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Geospatial Big Data Analysis
- Urban Environmental and Public Health
- Human-Environment Spatiotemporal Interaction
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Awards:
- 2022 Global Young Scientist Award in Frontier Science and Technology
- 2022 The Hong Kong openBIM/openGIS Award with Honorable Mention
- 2021 The University of Hong Kong HKU-100 Scholars Award
- 2021 Distinguished Postdoctoral Award, LAWR, UC Davis
- 2021 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Early-Career Award in Remote Sensing
- 2019 Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award, Beijing Normal University
- 2018 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Best Young Author Award
- 2017 Li Xiaowen Remote Sensing Excellent Youth Award, China
- 2017 Zhou Tingru scholarship (first place), Beijing Normal University
- 2017 Outstanding Ph.D. graduates award, Beijing Normal University
- 2016 The first-place university-level outstanding graduate student award, Beijing Normal University
- 2016 The university-level outstanding social practice award, Beijing Normal University
- 2016 Best poster award, the third Chinese Graduate Forum on Global Change Studies
- 2015 The first-place university-level outstanding graduate student award, Beijing Normal University
- 2015 Outstanding student leader award of GCESS, Beijing Normal University
- 2014 Outstanding student leader award of Beijing Normal University
- 2014 National scholarship award for graduate students
- 2014 Excellent student paper award, the seventh remote sensing symposium on both sides of the Taiwan Straits.
- 2014 Best student paper award (second place), the third international workshop on EORSA
- 2014 Excellent bachelor’s dissertation in Hubei Province
- 2013 Outstanding graduates award, Wuhan University
- 2013 The first-place Wang Zhizhuo innovative talent scholarship, Wuhan University
Journal editorships:
- Associate Editor, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (2021-)
- Associate Editor, Frontier in Remote Sensing (2022-)
- Executive Editorial Board, Landscape Architecture Frontiers (2022-)
- Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Land, and All Earth (2020-)
Journal reviewers:
- Science Advances; PNAS; Lancet Public Health; Remote Sensing of Environment; ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing; Global Change Biology; Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing; International Journal of Remote Sensing; GIScience & Remote Sensing; Science of Remote Sensing; Environment International; Science of the Total Environment; Resources, Conservation and Recycling; Environmental Earth Science; International Journal of Geographic Information System; Geo-spatial Information Science; Remote Sensing; Environmental Science & Technology; Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; Environmental Research Letters; Environmental Research Communications; GeoHealth; IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing; Earth System Science Data; Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information; Frontiers in Public Health; Landscape Architecture Frontiers; Cities; Sustainable Cities and Society; Urban Studies; The Innovation; etc.
Professional Membership:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- American Association of Geographers (AAG)
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
- International Society of Ecological Modelling (ISEM)