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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 Morphology Shape Land Surface Temperature Organisations Strategic themes / Focus areas
Urban remote sensing Urban climate Spatiotemporal analysis Applied data science
Skills
Remote sensing Image analysis GIS Machine learning Publications AI perceives like a local: predicting citizen deprivation perception using satellite imagery (2024) npj Urban Sustainability, 4 (1), 1-14. 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 Leveraging geospatial information to map perceived tenure insecurity in urban deprivation areas (2024) Land, 13 (9). Article 1429. Dufitimana, E., Wang, J. & Kohli, D.https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091429 A spatial data-driven urban pattern language framework for design and planning (2024) [Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Wu, C. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036561631 Feature-guided deep learning model for mapping deprived areas (2024) In 2024 International Conference on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing, MIGARS 2024 . IEEE. Filho, P. S., Tareke, B., Persello, C., Kuffer, M., Maretto, R., Abascal, A., Wang, J. & MacHado, R. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIGARS61408.2024.10544988 Making Urban Slum Population Visible: Citizens and Satellites to Reinforce Slum Censuses (2024) In Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World (pp. 287-302). Abascal, A., Georganos, S., Kuffer, M., Vanhuysse, S., Thomson, D., Wang, J. , Manyasi, L., Otunga, D. M., Ochieng, B., Ochieng, T., Klinnert, J. & Wolff, E. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49183-2_14 Putting the Invisible on the Map: Low-Cost Earth Observation for Mapping and Characterizing Deprived Urban Areas (Slums) (2024) In Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World (pp. 119-137) (Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing; Vol. 26). Vanhuysse, S., Kuffer, M., Georganos, S., Wang, J. , Abascal, A., Grippa, T. & Wolff, E. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49183-2_7 Heat exposure of deprivation through air temperature modelling (2024) In IGARSS 2024 : 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 1156-1159). IEEE. Abascal, A., Wang, J. , Kuffer, M., Georganos, S. & Vanhuysse, S. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640489 ONEKANA: Modelling thermal inequalities in African cities (2024) In IGARSS 2024 : 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 1571-1575). IEEE. Vanhuysse, S., Abascal, A., Georganos, S., Wang, J. & Kuffer, M. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10641265 Semi-supervised โsoftโ extraction of urban types associated with deprivation (2024) In IGARSS 2024: 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 1581-1584). IEEE. Vanhuysse, S., Abascal, A., Wang, J. , Georganos, S., Kuffer, M. & Wolff, E. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642280 User and data-centric artificial intelligence for mapping urban deprivation in multiple cities across the globe (2024) In IGARSS 2024: 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 1553-1557). IEEE. Tareke, B., Filho, P. S., Persello, C., Kuffer, M., Maretto, R., 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. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640428 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 2024/2025 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 2023/2024