Dong Liu, Ph.D.Position: Research Assistant ProfessorAffiliation:Institute of Space and Earth Information ScienceInstitute of Future CitiesComputational Social Science LaboratoryThe Chinese University of Hong KongAddress: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, New TerritoriesE-mail: dongliu@cuhk.edu.hkORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9090-5732 ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dong-Liu-37 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CWDSVOMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra Twitter: @DongLiu_ 

Education:

Ph.D., Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2021

(Advisor: Dr. Mei-Po Kwan)

M.S., Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2020

(Advisor: Dr. Mei-Po Kwan)

M.S., Geography & Geoinformatics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017

(Advisor: Dr. Lasse Møller-Jensen)

Certificate of Completion, Special Research Student, Cooperative Laboratory Study Program, Tohoku University, Japan, 2017

(Advisor: Dr. Isoda Yuzuru)

B.S., Geographic Information System, Shandong Jianzhu University, China, 2015


Professional Appointments:

2022-present Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science & Institute of Future Cities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2024-present Associate Editor, The International Encyclopedia of Geography, The American Association of Geographers

2021-2022 Postdoctoral Associate, Human Environments Analysis Laboratory, Department of Geography and Environment, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

2020-2021 Predoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

2017-2021 Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

2016-2017 Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Scholar, Department of Earth Science, Tohoku University, Japan


Selected Honors and Awards:

2024, China-U.S. Scholars Program (CUSP) Grants for Conference Participation and Research Travel, Institute of International Education (on behalf of Carnegie Corporation of New York, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Henry Luce Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund)

2023&2024, Conference Grant Supported by the Central Budget, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2022, Children's Health Research Institute Trainee Award, Canada Children’s Health Foundation

2020, Marion G. Russell Graduate Fellowship, Department of Geography and GIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2020, EESG Travel Award, Energy and Environment Specialty Group of Association of American Geographers

2019, Samuel and Berel D. Schlesinger Travel Grant, School of Earth, Society, and Environment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2019, GIS-SG Travel Award, Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group of Association of American Geographers

2017-2018, Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Geography and GIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2016, JASSO Scholarship, Japan Student Services Organization

2016, IARU-Santander GSP Scholarship, Banco Santander/University of Tokyo

2016, IARU-GSP Travel Grant, University of Copenhagen