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My overarching research interests involve understanding the dynamics and interactions of geographic processes, with special focus on urban development and interventions to adapt to extreme events. In operationalizing my research, I primarily rely on earth observation-based techniques to measure variables, and geospatial analysis along with artificial intelligence to explore patterns in space and time.
In the department of PGM, my major focuses are: (1) mapping urban morphology, and (2) understanding environmental risk of deprived groups.
Expertise Earth and Planetary Sciences Metropolitan Area Observation Earth Datum Investigation Land Surface Temperature Morphology Shape Organisations Strategic themes / Focus areas
Urban remote sensing Urban climate Spatiotemporal analysis Applied data science
Skills
Remote sensing Image analysis GIS Machine learning Publications User and data-centric artificial intelligence for mapping and benchmarking urban deprivation for a global sample of cities (2026) Remote sensing of environment, 335 . Article 115272. Tareke, B., Filho, P. S., Persello, C., Kuffer, M., Maretto, R. V., Wang, J. , Abascal, A., Pillai, P., Singh, B., D’Attoli, J. M., Kabaria, C., Pedrassoli, J., Brito, P., Elias, P., Atenógenes, E., Santiago, A. R., Pratomo, J., Mulyana, W., Paganini, M., … Ospina, J. P.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115272 Exploring the Influence of Building Morphology on Surface Temperatures: A Multi-City Analysis in Europe (2025) Building and environment, 282 . Article 113274. Roy, S. D., Kuffer, M. & Wang, J. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.113274 Comparing urban growth patterns based on Local Climate Zones for three Chilean cities: Temuco, Valdivia, and Puerto Montt (2025) [Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Mauricio, M., Pfeffer, K., Wang, J. , Maturana, F. & Schwarz, N. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16809807 Mapping Deprived Urban Areas with an Optimized Loss-weight Feature-guided Deep Learning Model (2025) In 2025 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) (pp. 1-4) (Proceedings Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE); Vol. 2025). IEEE. Filho, P. S., Tareke, B., Persello, C., Maretto, R. V., Machado, R., Kuffer, M., Abascal, A. & Wang, J. https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE60372.2025.11075980 Formalising the urban pattern language: A morphological paradigm towards understanding the multi-scalar spatial structure of cities (2025) Cities, 161 . Article 105854. Wu, C., Wang, J. , Wang, M., Biljecki, F. & Kraak, M. J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105854 Innovative data solutions for inclusive cities: The IDEAtlas User Portal (2025) In The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences: 44th EARSeL Symposium (pp. 237-243) (International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). Copernicus. Tareke, B., Silva Filho, P., Persello, C., Kuffer, M., Maretto, R. V., Wang, J. , Abascal, A., Pillai, P., Singh, B., D'Attoli, J. M., Kabaria, C., Pedrassoli, J., Brito, P., Elias, P., Villaseñor, E. A., Ramírez Santiago, A., Mulyana, W., Pratomo, J., Leska, R., … Thomson, D. R. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-7-2025-237-2025 Using low-cost sensors and citizen science: Assessing thermal inequality in African slums (2025) In Proceedings of the 44th EARSeL Symposium (pp. 229-236) (International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). Copernicus. Sampson, S. A., Abascal, A., Wang, J. , Vanhuysse, S., Rodríguez Carreño, I., Garcia Ruiz, I. & Kuffer, M. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-7-2025-229-2025 Geoinformation dependencies in geographic space and beyond (2025) [Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Wang, J. & Lu, M. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.01260 ‘Local Hubs and Global Gateways’: Understanding the impact of Singapore’s master plan on urban polycentricity (2025) Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 52 (4), 789-803. Wu, C., Wang, M., Wang, J. , Smith, D. & Kraak, M.-J.https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083241267070 AI perceives like a local: predicting citizen deprivation perception using satellite imagery (2024) npj Urban Sustainability, 4 (1). Article 20. Abascal, A., Vanhuysse, S., Grippa, T., Rodriguez-Carreño, I., Georganos, S., Wang, J. , Kuffer, M., Martinez-Diez, P., Santamaria-Varas, M. & Wolff, E.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-024-00156-x Research profiles Ph.D., Research Center of Digital City, Wuhan University, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan, China.
Master of Urban Planning, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S. System dynamic modeling of urban sustainable development.
B.S. in Resource, Environment and Planning,
Chengdu
University of Technology, Chengdu, China
Courses academic year 2026/2027 Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses academic year 2025/2026 Courses academic year 2024/2025 
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