Biography

Shaoqing Dai(戴劭勍) is a postdoctral researcher from School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University. He finished his Ph.D. in the Department of Earth Observation Science, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation(ITC), University of Twente. He earned a Master degree and a Bachelor degree from the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University respectively. He is a fellow of the International Institute of Spatial Lifecourse HEalth(ISLE), a visiting scholar of AI 4D City Lab, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), a contributor to GeoDa Center, rgeoda, libgeoda Github organizations, and a volunteer of Sustainable Cities & Mobility.

Interests

  • Health Geography
  • Urban Visual Intelligence
  • Spatial Lifecourse Health
  • Spatial Statistics
  • GeoAI
  • Spatial-Temporal Big Data

Education

  • Ph.D in Geoinformatics, 2024

    University of Twente, the Netherlands

  • MS.c in Ecology, 2019

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  • BS.c in Geographical Science (National Talents Training Base), 2016

    Fujian Normal University, China

Recent Key News

More News

  • Feb. 24, 2025: Shaoqing Dai was selected for Special Program for the Introduction of Overseas Postdoctoral Talents, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

  • Jan. 17, 2025: We publihsed a book entitled ‘health geography’ with China Higher Education Press.

  • Jan. 1, 2025: Shaoqing Dai started his new position as a key-funded Postdoctoral Researcher in Geography Postdoctoral Program, Schoolof Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University.

  • Jun. 14, 2024: Shaoqing Dai passed the Ph.D defence, and became a Ph.D. The topic of Ph.D thesis is “Improving obesogenic environmental assessment with advanced geospatial methods”.

Teaching Experience

  • Health Geography, PG course, Lecturer, School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 2024
  • Spatial Epidemiology Analysis Mehtods and Applications, Training course, Lecturer, China CDC National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, 2024
  • Health Geography, UG course, Lecturer, School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 2024

Projects

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Spatial Lifecourse Health

Spatial Lifecourse Health was proposed by my supervisor, Prof.Peng Jia. This is the basic theory of My PhD project.

Air Pollution Map

We used multi-sources data, machine learning and spatial statistics to devlop the accurate air pollution map.

Urban Carbon Cycle

We used machine learning, spatial statistics, ecological process model and remote sensing to construct map of urban carbon cycle.

Spatial-Temporal GIS Theory

We explored the spatial-temporal GIS theory and its applications.

Urban Blue and Green Space

We want to know how the pattern of blue space and green space in urban influence the urban environment.

Virtual Geographical Environment

I’m interested in virtual geographical environments(VGEs).

Recent Publications

Built environments and obesity: A framework considering residences, commute routes, and workplaces

The built environment is a significant contributor to obesity, but previous studies have focused more on the built environment at …

Heterogeneous impacts of and vulnerabilities to the COVID-19 pandemic

Context-The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all sectors of society, with effects that have been acutely experienced at the local, …

Improving obesogenic environmental assessments with advanced geospatial methods

This thesis explores the intricate connections between the envir- onment and obesity. It develops and applies advanced geospatial …

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Exploring the impact factors of uncertainties for urban carbon dioxide, a case of Jinjiang, Quanzhou, China

To introduce the how to explore the impact factors of uncertainties for urban carbon dioxide.

Development of the frequently used built environmental auditing and simulation tools in health domain

To introduce our published paper in International Symposium on Spatial Lifecourse Health.

Development of the frequently used environmental exposome observation tools in health domain

To introduce our published paper in Health Geography Youth Scholars Forum.

Bridging environment and human health, from earth observation to human-center observation

To introduce my research interest and some research on health geography.

Assessment of physical activity opportunities based on multi-source geospatial data

To introduce our published paper in ‘Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics and Social Geographical Computing’ session.

Resources

Softwares &
Open book &
Websites &
Scripts &
Datasets

Softwares

GUI Software

D3L Tool of NASA Satellite: The program provides a graphical interface to download satellite imagery from NASA, such as MODIS products, MERIS and more.
Github Paper Notebook: The software for notebook of papers, I’m fulfilling the information and software.

R packages

Geographical Detector for R: The geographical detector software based on R, I’m fulfilling the information and software.
rgeoda: rgeoda is a R package for spatial data analysis based on libgeoda and GeoDa(contributor).

R Shiny app

COVID-19 Shiny app: A developed dashboard shiny app about COVID-19.
MetS score calculator shiny app: A shiny app to calculate MetS score.

Open book

Note of Applied Statistics with R (in Chinese)
Note of Applied Statistics with R Project on Github (in Chinese)

Websites

GISerDaiShaoqing’s Blog: My personal blog (in Chinese)
Shaoqing Dai’s CV(html version): Shaoqing Dai’s data-driven CV (English)
Shaoqing Dai’s CV(html version): Shaoqing Dai’s CV (in Chinese)
Awesome of COVID-19: This website was used for collecting all the resources of COVID-19 related studies and was powered by docsite.

Scripts

Code and data to support ‘Street view imagery for built environment auditing: a systematic review’
My Studies of Urban GIS on Github

Datasets

Urban Carbon Dioxide sources gridded maps and its detemination in Jinjiang city
3d model of Fujian Normal University

Scientific and Technological Achievements

Yin Ren, Shudi Zuo, Lizhong Hua, Shaoqing Dai. Scaling up of carbon sequestration for Eucalyptus plantations based on ETKF-3DVAR hybrid data assimilation. 90000890-2349, Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology.

Professional Services

Organizational Roles

DurationTime Role
2024-current Lecturer, UrbanParty.
2024-current Member, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Student Consortium.
2024-current Visiting Scholar, AI 4D City lab, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
2019-current Fellow, International Institute of Spatial Lifecourse Health (ISLE).
2019-current Contributor, GeoDa Center, rgeoda, libgeoda Github Organizations.
2015-current Volunteer, Organization “Sustainable Cities & Mobility”.
2024 Convener, 2nd World Congress of Geography, ”Research on Global Health Wellbeing and Health Geography” session.
2024 Convener, 4th International Symposium on Spatial Lifecourse Health, ”Application of System Simulation Models in Health Domain” session.
2024 Lecturer, 4th International Symposium on Spatial Lifecourse Health Workshop
2024 Lecturer, Heywhale Community and GISphere, ’Python x GIS’ GeoAI Workshop
2024 Lecturer, Training course on ’Spatial Epidemiology Analysis Mehtods and Applications’ by China CDC, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases
2018-2020 Expert, Aliyunqi Community.
2020-2023 Editor Board, Member, GISphere.
2017-2019 Member, International Association of Landscape Ecology of China(IALE-China).
2016-2017 Volunteer, Green Bike-Transit.
2013-2017 Founder, Editor in Chief, Associate Editor, Assistant Editor in Chief, the Geographical Tribune of Youth.

Peer Reviewer for Selected Academic Journals

  • European Heart Journal
  • Resources, Conservation and Recycling
  • Sustainable Cities and Society
  • International Journal of Geographical Information Science
  • Cities
  • Information Processing & Management
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • International Journal of Digital Earth
  • GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Carbon Management
  • City and environment interactions
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Data in Brief
  • The Journal of Open Source Software
  • Shanghai Urban Planning Review

Awards & Honors & Fundings

Award & Honors

Year Award & Honors
2025 Special Program for the Introduction of Overseas Postdoctoral Talents, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
2022 Outstanding contributions to COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control, Health commission of Tumot Left Banner, Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
2021 The National 2nd Prize, 5th Planning Decision Support Model Design Contest(Chengyuan Cup), Beijing Chengyuan Digital Technology Co. Ltd., World Urban Planning Education Network, Beijing Planning Institute Hongdu Planning and Architectural Design Research Institute Co. Ltd., Beijing City Lab, Baidu Map Huiyan, China Unicom Smart Footprint.
2019 China Scholarship Council(CSC), China Scholarship Council.
2019 The 2nd Grade Scholarship of Yonker Environmental Protection Scholarship, Yonker Environmental Protection Co. Ltd..
2019 The 1st Grade Scholarship, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2019 The Scientific and Technological Innovation Award of Outstanding Graduate Students, Ecological Society of China.
2018 National Scholarship for M.Sc., Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
2018 The National 3rd Prize, 2nd Big Data Support Spatial Planning and Design Competition, Urban Big Data Special Committee, Chinese Society for Urban Studies.
2018 “Applied Energy” 2018 Summer School Certification, The Applied Energy Innovation Institute, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China Emission Accounts & Datasets(CEADs).
2018 Merit Students in the academic year 2017-2018, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2018 The 2nd Grade Scholarship, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2018 The 1st Scholarship, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2018 The National Winning Award, 2017 “Sharing Cup” College Student Science and Technology Resource Sharing Service Innovation Contest, National Science & Technology Infrastructure Center.
2017 Excellent Volunteer, 15th User Conference of Esri China, Esri China Information Technology Co. Ltd..
2017 Merit Students in the academic year 2016-2017, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2015 The National Winning Award, 2015 Esri Cup National College Student Developed Contest in GIS·3D Modeling and Design, Chinese Society of Geodesy Photogrammetry and Cartography, Esri China Information Technology Co. Ltd..
2015 Inovation Scholoarships in the academic year 2014-2015, Fujian Normal University.
2015 The National 3rd Prize, the Smart City Special Event Contest—the 14th Challenge Cup National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Contest, Chinese Communist Youth League, China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, All-China Students’ Federation.
2015 Scientific and Technological Innovation award and Nomination, the First Annual Fujian Normal University Student Selection, Fujian Normal University.
2015 School Wining Award, 9th Challenge Cup Fujian Normal University College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Contest, Fujian Normal University.
2014 Inovation Scholoarships in the academic year 2013-2014, Fujian Normal University.
2014 The National 3rd Prize, 2014 MathorCup Global Collegiate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economical Mathematics.
2014 Excellent League Cadres in the academic year 2013-2014, Fujian Normal University.
2014 Excellent League Leader in the academic year 2013-2014, School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University.
2013 Excellent League Leader in the academic year 2012-2013, School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University.

Fundings

DurationTime Fundings, Role
2025-2028 Special Program for the Introduction of Overseas Postdoctoral Talents, PI
2024-2026 Research Project of Collaborative Chronic Disease Management by Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Investigater
2023-2026 National Key Research and DevelopmentPlan(2023YFC3604704), Investigater
2022-2025 National Natural Science Foundation of China(42271433), Investigater
2020-2021 WeSpace Academic Support Plan in 2020: ”Tsinghua-Tencent” Emerging Technologies Future Urban Space project, PI
2018-2019 Open Fund of the Big Data Institute of Digital Natural Disaster Monitoring in Fujian (NDMBD2018001), Investigater
2016-2020 National Key Research and Development Plan(2016YFC0502704), Investigater
2015-2018 National Natural Science Foundation of China(31470578), Investigater
2014-2015 The Technological Innovation Plan of University Students, Fujian Normal University(cxxl-2014137), PI

Skills

R

80%

GIS

80%

3D modeling

80%

Python

70%

Statistics

70%

RS & Earth Observation

70%

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