2014 - 2019,  PhD, Sustainable Urban Planning, School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

2021.8 - Now, Assistant Professor, Big Data for Governance, Renmin University of China (RUC)

2020 - 2021,  Research Technician, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

2017 - 2018,  Visiting Scholar, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

International Journal Reviewer:

2021 - Now, Frontier in Big Data Governance

2022 - Now, Big Data for Public Administration

2022 - Now, GIS Technology and Application

2022 - Now, Urban Environmental Planning

Research Interests:

[1] Urban Environmental Governance

[2] Climate Adaptation Planning

[3] Green Infrastructure Planning

Research Projects:

[1] Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education, Research on Quantification and Optimization of Urban Street Thermal Environment based on Steet View Images (22YJZH034), 2023-2025, Ongoing, PI

[2] Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, Research on Big-data Driven Urban Street Thermal Environment Governance (22XNKJ11), 2022-2024, Ongoing, PI

[3] Research Foundation of Renmin University of China, Research on the Application of Satellite Remote Sensing and Street View Images in Urban Greening Planning and Governance in Beijing (2022B-12), 2022-2023, Ongoing, PI

[4] Research Foundation of Renmin University of China, Research on the Construction of Interdisciplinary Academic Data Opening Platform (2022JCG028), 2022-2022, Completed, PI

Selected Journal Publications:

[1] Gong, F.-Y.*, Zeng, Z.-C., Zhang, F., Li, X., Ng, E., & Norford, L. K. (2018). Mapping sky, tree, and building view factors of street canyons in a high-density urban environment. Building and Environment, 134, 155-167. (SCI，IF=7.09)

[2] Gong, F.-Y.*, Zeng, Z.-C., Ng, E., & Norford, L. K. (2019). Spatiotemporal patterns of street-level solar radiance estimated using Google Street View in a high-density urban environment. Building and Environment, 148, 547-566. (SCI，IF=7.09)

[3] Gong, F.-Y.*, Zeng, Z.-C., & Ng, E. (2016). Modeling elderly accessibility to urban green space in high-density cities: A case study of Hong Kong. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 36, 90-97.

[4] Hu, C.-B., Zhang F., Gong, F.-Y., Ratti, C., and Li X. (2020). Classification and Mapping of Urban Canyon Geometry Using Google Street View Images and Deep Multitask Learning. Building and Environment, 167, 106424. (SCI，IF=7.09)

[5] Zeng, Z.-C., Wang Y., Pongetti, T. J., Gong, F.-Y., Newman, S., Li, Y., Natraj, V., Yung, Y. L., & Stanley P. S. (2020). Tracking the atmospheric pulse of a North American megacity from a mountaintop remote sensing observatory. Remote Sensing of Environment, 248, 112000. (SCI，IF=13.85)

[6] Wang, H., Gong, F.-Y., Newman, S., & Zeng, Z. C. (2021). Consistent weekly cycles of atmospheric NO2, CO, and CO2 in a North American megacity from ground-based, mountaintop, and satellite measurements. Atmospheric Environment, 118809. (SCI，IF=5.76)[7] Zeng, Z.-C., B. Byrne, Gong, F.-Y., Z. He, & L. Lei, (2021). Correlation between paddy rice growth and satellite-observed methane column abundance does not imply causation. Nature Communications. 12, 1163 (2021). (SCI，IF=17.69)

Selected Awards:

2018, Postgraduate Research Output Award 2018

2017, Global Scholarship Program for Research Excellence for 2017-18

2015, Professor Charles K.Kao Student Creativity Awards

2012, Outstanding Achievement Award in Macao Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (1st Prize)

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