Fengrui is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine  at Jinan University. 

His research interests focus on the use of geospatial big data in public health, namely,

• Geospatial data and human health

• AI-based and big data analytics

• Theoretical and methodological development pertaining to GIS & urban science

09/2017 – 06/2021：PhD student（Major: Cartography and Geographic Information Science), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou China (Supervised by Dr. Lin Liu, University of Cincinnati)

09/2019 – 03/2020：Visiting PhD student（Department: Crime & Wellbeing Big Data Centre), Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK（Supervised by Prof. Jon Bannister, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences UK）

09/2014 – 06/2017：Master’s student (Physical Geography), Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an China

03/2012 – 06/2014：Undergraduate student (Minor, Psychology), Central China Normal University, Wuhan China

09/2010 – 06/2014：Undergraduate student (Major, Social Work), Central China Agricultural University, Wuhan China

09/2023 – Now:  Jinan University

                   Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine

  Lecturer/Assistant Professor

01/2022 – 08/2023:  University of South Carolina

                   Department of Geography & Arnold School of Public Health 

                   Postdoc Research Fellow (advised by Dr. Zhenlong Li)

Duties/Responsibilities: I do innovative interdisciplinary research on geospatial big analysis by using/developing advanced spatiotemporal analysis methods, statistical and predictive models, and computing algorithms and tools in the intersection of GIScience, data science, and health science.

Principal Investigator:

- Jan 2026 – Dec 2028 — National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Young Scientists Fund (Category C). Association between Urban Street Visual Environments and Electric-Bicycle Traffic Crashes: Environmental–Behavioral Mechanisms (Grant No. 42501270).

- 75th Batch of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Grant: Population Mobility, Green Space Environment, and Respiratory Infectious Diseases: Mechanism of Action and Spatial Simulation Research (367867);

- 2024 Youth Fund Project of Jinan University Central University Basic Scientific Research Fund (21624326);

- Guangdong Medical Science Fund: Study on the Relationship between Street-scale Mosquito Risk Area Visitation Behavior and Dengue Fever Incidence Based on Mobile Phone Big Data (2023111410058773);